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Timothy McSweeney 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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Book Cover for: Shadow ACT: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley, Daniel Brock Johnson

Shadow ACT: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley

Daniel Brock Johnson
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

Boston readers: be sure to join us in just ten days at Porter Square Books where Daniel Brock Johnson will be reading from upcoming poetry book, Shadow Act. https://t.co/vyCcMrdxK1

Hardcover, 2023

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Red Clocks, Leni Zumas

Red Clocks

Leni Zumas
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

“A thrillingly personal and political response to the emergency we’re in.” —Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom is out next week from McSweeney's. https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/i-know-what-s-best-for-you-stories-on-reproductive-freedom?taxon_id=1 https://t.co/r6oQiXW9sn

Paperback, 2018

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Exit West, Mohsin Hamid

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

“Smart, funny, and heartfelt, The Domestic Crusaders is a relentless and very personal examination of a deeply confusing time.” —Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West https://t.co/bhVeYVmCLU https://t.co/XTImwEj1qy

Paperback, 2018

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ivory Shoals, John Brandon

Ivory Shoals

John Brandon
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

The @nytimesbooks lists John Brandon’s Ivory Shoals as one of its ten recommended books this week! https://t.co/iNBG6jRug0

Hardcover, 2021

$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language, Daniel Levin Becker

What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language

Daniel Levin Becker
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

don't miss our dear friend Daniel Levin Becker (@dlb) online with @SeminaryCoop discussing his new @CityLightsBooks book What's Good! https://t.co/rBgJNo1lCb

Paperback, 2022

$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Still Life, Jay Hopler

Still Life

Jay Hopler
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

Absolutely thrilled to see several dear friends and McSweeney's alumni in this year's crop of Guggenheim fellows, including poet Jay Hopler who's book Still Life we'll be publishing later this spring! https://t.co/rw7hUcu0qp

Hardcover, 2022

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

"TIME, dude! Time is a relative concept. In 'To the Lighthouse,' a day goes by in 200 pages, but 10 years go by in 20. A Chainsmokers set is usually an hour, but if you’re on acid it’s 48 months long." https://t.co/KzbSWhP1oG

Paperback, 1989

$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

This is Eggers at the top of his game.” —Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Great Believers

Paperback, 2019

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!, Danny Caine

How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!

Danny Caine
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

Read "How to Resist Amazon and Why" author (and indie bookstore legend) Danny Caine in conversation with Dave Eggers for @BOMBmagazine! https://t.co/mUuroKKspb

Paperback, 2022

$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Macbeth

William Shakespeare
Timothy McSweeneyTimothy McSweeney

"My show is heavy with the weight of gore and bloodlust. And yet some of these schools go from putting on a production of my somber tragedy in the fall to putting on Grease in the spring. Grease!" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/it-is-i-william-shakespeare-and-i-am-begging-you-to-stop-letting-high-schoolers-put-on-productions-of-macbeth

Paperback, Mass Market, 2003

$6.99Member price:$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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