TriQuarterly Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
TriQuarterly on XWriting, art, video. Published by Northwestern U.'s Litowitz MFA+MA and the SPS MA graduate creative writing programs.

Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty.@Morgan_J_Talty’s story “The Blessing Tobacco” from TQ 157 is a finalist for the Marine Literary Awards in Short Fiction! Can’t wait for NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ (@Tin_House) to come out. https://t.co/4K2tycduVn
Paperback, 2022
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Want What We Want: Stories
Alix Ohlin"The nature of writing is that your writing always betrays your preoccupations, even if you don't plan for it to do so." @AlixOhlin spoke with @joshuabohnsack about her new collection We Want What We Want (@AAKnopf) for The Latest Word: https://www.triquarterly.org/interviews/interview-alix-ohlin
Hardcover, 2021
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
Simon ParkinThink you know everything there is to know about Britain during WWII? Think again. TQ Editor @EMirengoff spoke with @SimonParkin about his new book, "The Island of Extraordinary Captives" (@ScribnerBooks, out today!) about British internment camps: https://t.co/JG9XFirBYH
Paperback, 2023
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hao: Stories
Ye ChunIssue 155 contributor, Ye Chun's story collection HAO has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. https://t.co/lMq5ZwIl4r
Paperback, 2022
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Sex Tape
Jameka WilliamsCongratulations to @nugradwriting alum @meka_will_write on her debut poetry collection American Sex Tape™. Our own @laurajoyhub spoke with her about the publishing process, the Kardashians, sex and victimization, and *that title*! https://t.co/jpv7sgjHCl
Paperback, 2022
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In Praise of Good Bookstores
Jeff Deutsch"When we are browsing a good bookstore or reading a good book, it feels like it is ours alone and, simultaneously, unowned; like we are in solitude in community." -Jeff Deutsch, Director of @SeminaryCoop and author of In Praise of Good Bookstores https://t.co/EJRKOAO5mT
Hardcover, 2022
$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ghost Lover: Stories
Lisa Taddeo"It is the curse of living in a misogynistic man’s world: to measure your self-worth by a thigh-gap, rather than self-fulfillment." TQ contributor @HannahB40843697 reviews @lisadtaddeo's GHOST LOVER in @The_Rumpus and it is 🔥🔥 https://t.co/KqCknI6Yyz
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bestiary
K-Ming ChangCongratulations to @k_mingchang / 張欣明 whose novel BESTIARY is on the @penfaulkner Award longlist! You can read her story "Cowlick" in our latest issue: https://t.co/RTPRuOF8SF
Paperback, 2021
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Against Death: The Practice of Living with AIDS
Robert ArissVery belated congratulations to @MyNrhindi on her inclusion in the 2022 @BestAmPo, selected by @matthewzapruder! Her poem, "Against Death," was originally published in TQ issue 159--and if you haven't read it yet, you must: https://t.co/N9EznkjGDb https://t.co/0CqwoRhV76
Paperback, 2001
$36.99Member price:$35.14 + Free shipping5% off
Bewilderness
Karen Tucker"If you're running hard from pain and grief and panic, it's not so difficult to get your characters to run hard, too." - Karen Tucker (@_karentucker_) on writing her novel BEWILDERNESS (@CatapultStory) as interviewed by Mandana Chaffa (@recycledgiraffe) https://www.triquarterly.org/interviews/craving-impossible-interview-karen-tucker
Hardcover, 2021
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book