Thomas Bolt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Thomas Bolt on X
Writer. 2018 O. Henry Prize (via n+1): https://t.co/d3vieFyjpE Contributing ed @ BOMB. Rome Prize for Literature, Yale YP Vol 84. https://t.co/3mVfJ5BFCY

The Duchess of Padua
Oscar Wilde
talesofpassingtime: “We are all animals at best, and love Is merely passion with a holy name.” — Oscar Wilde, The Duchess of Padua https://t.co/qPZiPJDkxi
Out of stock

All That Is
James Salter
“There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.” - James Salter, from All That Is (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) https://t.co/5SSZnwQa0F
Paperback, 2014
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Paradise Lost: Red Premium Edition
John Milton
📷 classicalartdark: DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883) “Now to th’ ascent of that steep savage hill / Satan had journied on, pensive and slow” (Illustration for John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1674), Book 4, ll. 170-171, detail) 1866 Engraving Ed.... https://t.co/hXe9oUMnSm
Out of stock

The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
Guy Davenport
@dieworkwear Your threads often remind me of the great Guy Davenport essay, “The Geography of the Imagination.”
Paperback, 2024
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
talesofpassingtime: “One should never take sides in anything, Mr. Kelvil. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.” — Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance https://t.co/zSvAMXNA0E
Paperback, 2021
$4.99$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Magic Flute
Patricia Minger
📷 mererecorder: Iconic historical stage designs for The Queen of the Night sequence from Mozart’s “Magic Flute” - the first image by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1815, the second by Simon Quaglio in 1818 (x) https://t.co/2LXdTXTLWp
Paperback, 2016
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Education
Henry Adams
@xlorentzen I was reading THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS a year or two ago and kept finding something familiar about his tone. I realized it was a tone I’d heard before, but in one place only: the essays of George W. S. Trow.
Out of stock

Paradise lost: Being a facsimile reproduction of the first edition
John Milton
📷 classicalartdark: DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883) “Now to th’ ascent of that steep savage hill / Satan had journied on, pensive and slow” (Illustration for John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1674), Book 4, ll. 170-171, detail) 1866 Engraving Ed.... https://t.co/hXe9oUMnSm
Paperback, 2016
$37.50$18.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Price of Salt
Patricia Highsmith
metamorphesque:ALT ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt https://t.co/E68iXDo3Id
Paperback, 2021
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
talesofpassingtime: “One should never take sides in anything, Mr. Kelvil. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.” — Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance https://t.co/zSvAMXNA0E
Paperback, 2017
$5.38$2.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book