Transit Books 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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The Dice Cup
Max Jacob
A few books we've been reading and recommending this winter, including The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie (@Pegasus_Books ), The Dice Cup by Max Jacob (@Wakefield_Press), I Had Nowhere to Go by Jonas Mekas (Spector Books), and more. https://t.co/VAy8btQZgC https://t.co/3hsswre6RO
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Axiomatic
Maria Tumarkin
@elenasb_ Would highly recommend the sections that comprise Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin.
Paperback, 2019
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bar at Twilight
Frederic Tuten
I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN in the latest @ConsortiumBooks communiqué ✨✨✨ alongside the excellent A GIRLHOOD by Carolyn Hays (@BlairPublisher), SAINT SEBASTIAN'S ABYSS by Mark Haber (@Coffee_House_) and Frederic Tuten’s THE BAR AT TWILIGHT (@bellevuepress) https://t.co/JodeTJymx0
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
"Paradoxically, the book’s austere mystery—the atrophied and gelid world it depicts—provides a richly allusive consideration of human life." Deborah Eisenberg (!) on Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN (tr. @RosSchwartz) for @nybooks https://t.co/KTfrzlgH60
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poetics of Work
Noémi Lefebvre
We're launching @LefebvreNoemi's POETICS OF WORK on 3/9 with a conversation between translator @sophietimes and Kate Briggs, author of THIS LITTLE ART, hosted by our friends @CommunityBkstr 👋 Register (and hey, buy the book from them!) ⤵️ https://www.communitybookstore.net/poetics-of-work https://t.co/mqYJjhAFz4
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cold Nights of Childhood
Tezer Özlü
“Cold Nights of Childhood might be understood as a revenge on the convulsive therapy that robbed its author of much of her twenties, and from whose jolts she invented a new syntax.” ✨@yasmineseale on Maureen Freely’s translation of Tezer Özlü✨ https://t.co/T7W1XXfpSP
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Migratory Birds
Mariana Oliver
For #womenintranslationmonth revisit Farah Abdessamad's excellent @LARB essay on @marianaoliver 's Migratory Birds, translated by Julia Sanches. https://t.co/lEJIMvUPZO https://t.co/5jCKgidR3a
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We All Loved Cowboys
Carol Bensimon
"TO READ IF: You’re a sad girl, or a hot girl, or a hot, sad girl (or if you’re trying to impress a hot, sad girl)." McKayla Coyle on WE ALL LOVED COWBOYS by Carol Bensimon (tr. @BethFtranslate) https://t.co/i2yuUuqELO
Paperback, 2018
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Other Name: Septology I-II
Jon Fosse
Out today! ❤️🔥 Our special edition hardcover collects Jon Fosse's SEPTOLOGY (tr. Damion Searls)—THE OTHER NAME, I IS ANOTHER NAME, and A NEW NAME—for the first time ❤️🔥 Design by Justin Carder (@24hourmoons). https://t.co/lIe4nFYHXf https://t.co/r3n2sWyIht
Paperback, 2020
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
At Night He Lifts Weights
Kang Young-Sook
🏋️ Coming in September! 🏋️ Kang Young-sook's disquieting vision of ecological dystopia, AT NIGHT HE LIFTS WEIGHTS, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong. Cover design by @24hourmoons 🙏 https://t.co/ukzje9M0qw https://t.co/He3UHWc547
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book