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.
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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
$17.95$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
$26.00$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 Parkin
Think 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
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hao: Stories
Ye Chun
Issue 155 contributor, Ye Chun's story collection HAO has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. https://t.co/lMq5ZwIl4r
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Sex Tape
Jameka Williams
Congratulations 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
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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
$24.95$12.48 + 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
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bestiary
K-Ming Chang
Congratulations 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
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Against Death: The Practice of Living with AIDS
Robert Ariss
Very 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
$33.99$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book