Looking for the Gulf Motel
10 best books like Looking for the Gulf Motel (Richard Blanco): On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Orange World and Other Stories, The Tradition, Year of the Monkey, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, The Comfort of Strangers, Sara, or The Existence of Fire, The Cheese Monkeys, City of Light, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
| Author | Ocean Vuong |
| ISBN | 0525562028 |
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell's...
| Author | Jericho Brown |
| ISBN | 1556594860 |
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation?...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
| Author | Kaveh Akbar |
| ISBN | 1938584678 |
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." —Fanny Howe
This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0679749845 |
This was exactly the novel I didn’t want to read, but at least it’s official now – NO MORE IAN MCEWAN BOOKS FOR ME, EVER. I would like to tell you how stupid this novel is, but Maciek beat me to it – see his great review here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So let me tell...
| Author | Sara June Woods |
| ISBN | 0982989695 |
"Sara's father is a wolf. Her dog is a miracle. These little poem-stories are feral in content but meticulous in construction. They are little miracles adding up to the sum of a beautiful storybook." - Dena Rash Guzman, author of Life Cycle--Poems
"As I have learned, and as Sara helped me to understand...
| Author | Chip Kidd |
| ISBN | 0060507403 |
After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Crichton, Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. The Cheese Monkeys is a college...
| Author | Lauren Belfer |
| ISBN | 0385337647 |
The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning.
Louisa Barrett has made this dazzling city her home. Headmistress of Buffalo’s most prestigious school, Louisa is at ease...
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
| Author | Nick Flynn |
| ISBN | 1555975747 |
New poetry by the acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the Bomb
electrocution, no―the boy stood in the hot-hot room
stammering I did stammering I did stammering I
did stammering I did stammering everything you say I did
I...
