thomas beller Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Thomas Beller is an author and editor. Books: Seduction Theory; The Sleep-Over Artist; How to be a Man; JD Salinger: Escape Artist. Next book: “Lost in the Game: A book About Basketball.”
Panic in a Suitcase
Yelena Akhtiorskayathomas bellerDelightful piece, especially the quote at the end. Brings to mind two recent Soviet/real estate novels: A Terrible Country, by @keithgessen and Panic in a Suitcase, by Yelena Akhtiorskaya. Less recent: Zoya’s Apartment by Bulgakov. https://t.co/q0NSPvl9EE
Paperback, 2015
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Eliot: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
T. S. Eliotthomas bellerI am bummed about Kyrie Irving's casual and clueless antisemitism. But I am going to enjoy and appreciate him playing basketball in the same way I enjoy and appreciate T.S. Eliot's poems, never mind Ezra Pound.
Hardcover, 1998
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: novel
James Joycethomas bellerSo… my main man James Joyce! I’m partial to Dubliners. But you know publishers, they demanded a novel, and… he delivered one: Shout-out to @Thornwillow’s #Bloomsyear reading series: https://t.co/bPWUpSo2r1 #Ulysses100
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The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Carlo Rotellathomas bellerDept of Sharing books you love that are secret books: "THE WORLD IS ALWAYS COMING TO AN END: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood." Impossible to describe but the @NewYorker ran an excerpt a while back: https://t.co/ckn4kJtefd
Paperback, 2020
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A Fan's Notes
Frederick Exleythomas bellerMaybe now is a good time to try again with Frederick Exley’s “A Fan’s Notes.” People used to rave about it.
Paperback, 1988
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Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Norman Rushthomas bellerNorman Rush wrote a magnificent novel set in Botswana, “Mating.” Also, this is a nightmare list for Louisiana. https://t.co/f9eov8Y977
Paperback, 1992
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Routledge Library Editions: America: Revolution and Civil War
Various Authorsthomas bellerNeither here nor there, but both of these basketball obsessed authors have written about their literary/psychoanalytic European ancestors driven to America by war. Not the subject of these books but present to various degrees on the page or in the subtext. https://t.co/Oo6jTw7zqZ
Mixed Media Product, 2020
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Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan
Phillip Lopatethomas bellerApropos of nothing in particular, I always liked Phillip Lopate’s novel, The Rug Merchant. The vibe is Bernard Malamud meets The swinging 70’s. That, Waterfront, and Bachelorhood are the books of his I think of most often.
Paperback, 2005
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Two Girls Fat and Thin
Mary Gaitskillthomas bellerI want to give a shoutout to an excellent novel whose plot includes an extensive exploration of the dangerous, seductive cult of Ayn Rand and "Atlas Shrugged." Two Girls, Fat and Thin, by Mary Gaitskill. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Two_Girls_Fat_and_Thin/ax_-0KKZoD4C?hl=en
Paperback, 1998
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Venus Drive
Sam Lipsytethomas bellerHe quotes from Sam Lipsyte’s story, “My Life, for Promotional Use Only," from Venus Drive, (@opencitymag’s second book). A thought provoking piece, I recommend it. I’m teaching it at #tulane next week. https://t.co/6EuTHHDudw
Paperback, 2010
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