This is Patti Smith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
Benjamin Balint
This is a new work by Benjamin Balint on Bruno Schulz! I bought it today at @mcnallyjackson for the architect @aalofsin but in truth I’m dying to read it myself! We have been waiting for it.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fulgentius
CĂ©sar Aira
This is with great anticipation and joy to have in my hand a new work by Cesar Aira. He is a genius! It’s translated by Chris Andrews, who is one of the best.
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Divorce
CĂ©sar Aira
This is two cover versions of The Divorce, by the brilliant Cesar Aira. This book is genius. Am very proud to have written the introduction. And the translation, by Chris Andrews, equally transporting. I give it several hundred stars.
Paperback, 2021
$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This is what I am reading now. Hopelessly devoted.
Paperback, 2004
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Golden Dot
Gregory Corso
This is Poetry. The Golden Dot, by Gregory Corso. His last poems, his last missives to us all. It’s great. @lithicbookstore
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Happening
Annie Ernaux
This is reading 3 books all at once.
Paperback, 2019
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
Markiyan Kamysh
This is what I am reading NOW. His is a voice that must be heard. @markiyankamysh
Hardcover, 2022
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Book of Days
Patti Smith
This is Cairo receiving her own copy of A Book of Days for her 21st birthday. Photo: @michiganmanhattan
Paperback, 2024
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Am Lazarus
Anna Kavan
This is the first coffee of the new year. The first book. Some celebratory debris and last nights lone sake poured from a sake small barrel sent from my friend Ace in Japan. So, good wishes for resilience and renewed resolve. The city streets are empty. I feel optimistic.
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Montaigne
Stefan Zweig
This is first book first coffee of summer. A good start.
Paperback, 2015
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book