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By the Book: Dave Eggers (2012)

NYT By the Book column (2012-07-12).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Stay Up With Me
Tom Barbash · Buy on Amazon
"I’m reading a short story collection by Tom Barbash called “Stay Up With Me.” It’s not out yet, and probably won’t be for a year or so, but it’s so good."
Cover of Inside This Place, Not of It
Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi · Buy on Amazon
"I hope I can mention one recent book we put out called “Inside This Place, Not of It,” edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi. It’s a book of oral histories from incarcerated women in the U.S., and every story is shocking — women shackled to beds during childbirth, women given hysterectomies against their will and the omnipresent sexual abuse at the hands of guards."
Cover of Stories Not for the Nervous
Hitchcock · Buy on Amazon
"At a yard sale, I found a collection Hitchcock edited called “Stories Not for the Nervous”; it’s solid all the way through."
Cover of 21st Century Foss
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"There was one called “21st Century Foss,” full of incredible imaginings of spaceships and future cities, all with radical and organic shapes. I hadn’t seen it in 30 years and recently bought it on eBay. Looking at those pictures again was like reliving dreams I had when I was 8 years old."
Cover of A Hologram for the King
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"I usually feel too close to whatever book I last wrote, but in this case I have to say that I like “A Hologram for the King” best."
Cover of The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander · 2010 · Buy on Amazon
"I really wish Michelle Alexander, who wrote “The New Jim Crow,” about African-American men in prisons, would write a sequel, focusing on the plight of women."
Cover of Morning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode
Arif Gamal · Buy on Amazon
"A few years ago a poet named Arif Gamal gave me his book, “Morning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode,” and after reading and loving the first few pages, I lost it. I found it the other day while cleaning my office, and now am about halfway through it. It’s an epic poem about growing up in northern Sudan, and it’s really beautiful, unlike anything I can remember."

Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by Dave Eggers, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/dave-eggers-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Paul Bowles (also rec’d by Gwyneth Paltrow , Jonathan Franzen & William S. Burroughs ) · Buy on Amazon
"Every time I read this book I love it more. Terrible things happen to its characters, three young Americans traveling through Morocco, but Bowles’s writing is so hypnotic that the calamities are seen through a certain anodyne haze. And despite its darkness, it’s the most humane of existential novels."

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