R.O. Kwon 권오경 Book Recommendations
R.O. Kwon is an author. 📚 EXHIBIT, May ‘24 • THE INCENDIARIES, a nat'l bestseller • co-edited KINK • ✍🏻 @nytimes @vanityfair @newyorker • ro.kwon IG • rokwon Bluesky • she/her 🌈
Girlhood
Melissa FebosR.O. Kwon 권오경@writer_trey 💛 a couple other recent ones: GIRLHOOD by Melissa Febos, STAKES IS HIGH by Mychal Denzel Smith
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookCustoms: Poems
Solmaz SharifR.O. Kwon 권오경this is cheating a bit, since it came out last month, but I just finished it so whatever: I feel lucky to be alive during a time when Solmaz Sharif is writing. Her new book, CUSTOMS, is a revelation https://t.co/CrumbQUpAt https://t.co/eMi1guVtCN
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Incendiaries
R. O. KwonR.O. Kwon 권오경was & am so very glad & honored to talk with Korean-language media about the new Korean edition of THE INCENDIARIES, & after reading ensuing articles some of my elders urged me to stop talking about being queer, & anyway queer queer queer queer queer wow I am so queeeeeer yipee
Paperback, 2019
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Fourth Child
Jessica WinterR.O. Kwon 권오경okay I am forty pages into @winterjessica's THE FOURTH CHILD & it is a delight, I think this novel could be an especially good read for people who have been having more trouble than usual reading this past year, which seems to be almost everyone
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Quietly Hostile: Essays
Samantha IrbyR.O. Kwon 권오경The wildly hilarious Irby has written a new collection of essays about Hollywood, QVC, bathroom etiquette, and Carrie Bradshaw. Jia Tolentino calls Irby’s writing “stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny, as irresistible as a snack tray..."
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookYou Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke EmeziR.O. Kwon 권오경An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality. I love this book’s understanding of how tightly grief can tangle itself with elation, and how loss might elicit possession. It is also riotously, delightfully queer... hallelujah
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Fetishist
Katherine MinR.O. Kwon 권오경[Katherine Min] left behind an unfinished novel that her daughter, Kayla Min Andrews, has completed. The resulting collaboration, The Fetishist, about an ill-conceived kidnapping, is astonishing. I’m thankful this book exists.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookCounterfeit: A Reese's Book Club Pick
Kirstin ChenR.O. Kwon 권오경COUNTERFEIT by @kirstin_chen is out in June & it's a twisty, thrilling, gripping novel about the world of counterfeit luxury handbags https://t.co/gprBkXHQZw
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Ingrid Rojas ContrerasR.O. Kwon 권오경finished this manuscript the other day & holy shit, this book. Every page of it is genius. Look out for THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS, by @ingrid_rojas_c, a memoir coming from @doubledaybooks in the summer of 2022. Y’all are going to be amazed ✨ https://t.co/xPxF1wL6Qr
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookOn the Rooftop: A Reese's Book Club Pick
Margaret Wilkerson SextonR.O. Kwon 권오경this book is SPECTACULAR. I cried & wondered & underlined so many sentences & passages. It’s a book with such depth & brilliance & y’all are going to love it a whole lot ✨
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book