December 17, 2022
Here is a selection of the season’s most tempting illustrated volumes. We also have a fine collection of The Center for Fiction merchandise, including branded journals in an assortment of colors, plus pens, pencils, umbrellas, and even chocolates. All our suggestions fit perfectly inside a CFF Tote Bag. Too many choices? Try a Gift Card to spend at the Bookstore.
Or purchase a CenterforFiction.org Gift Certificate for event tickets, reading groups and writing workshops, Novel Approach sessions, memberships, and more! A terrific choice for literary loved ones to get to know The Center and experience our programming.
Happy reading,
Melanie Fleishman
Buyer, The Center for Fiction Bookstore
Featured Books
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Alex Katz: Gathering
By KATHERINE BRINSON, LEVI PROMBAUM
Published by GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
One of this season’s most spectacular exhibits now at the Guggenheim reveals this artist’s eight decades of enduring portraits, recent landscapes, collages, prints and set designs.
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A Book of Days
By PATTI SMITH
Published by RANDOM HOUSE
365+ photos from the iconic Patti Smith’s hugely popular Instagram which shines a light on her singular vision of life, art, family, love, music and all the rest.
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Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
By ART SPIEGELMAN
Published by PANTHEON GRAPHIC LIBRARY
A welcome addition from the great graphic artist, this reissue of his 1978 collection of comics shows us his early ground-breaking work with a revealing new afterword from the artist.
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Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series
By CARRIE MAE WEEMS, SARAH ELIZABETH LEWIS
Published by MW EDITIONS
These 20 photos by the essential chronicler of Black female identity focus on domestic life, exploring family and sexual dynamics in the home with beautiful black-and-white images and text.
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Cinema Speculation
By QUENTIN TARANTINO
Published by HARPER
The always-entertaining director Tarantino turns to criticism in a book that displays his intense passion for cinema—particularly from the 70s—an infectious, insider’s view to filmmaking.
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Edward Hopper's New York
By KIM CONATY, KIRSTY BELL, DARBY ENGLISH
Published by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hopper’s extraordinary record of New York life reflected in quietly powerful portraits of his wife, views from his apartment windows, urban architecture, and more. A great love letter to NYC in the 1st half the 20th century.
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Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen
By JON GRAY, PIERRE SERAO, LESTER WALKER
Published by ARTISAN
Combining culinary and political history, this Bronx-based collective presents both the great variety of food inspired by the African diaspora as well as a glimpse into the neighborhood’s vibrant Black culture.
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The Intimate City
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published by PENGUIN PRESS
A wonderfully lively compendium of observations about the city’s neighborhoods compiled during lockdown, gathered by NYC’s pre-eminent architectural critic and popular tour guide.
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Joan Didion: What She Means
By JOAN DIDION, HILTON ALS, CONNIE BUTLER
Published by DELMONICO BOOKS / HAMMER MUSEUM
We lost this great cultural critic exactly a year ago. Here Hilton Als celebrates her love of the two American coasts by offering observations and illustration by artists like Andy Warhol and Diane Arbus.
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Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal
By JOHN YAU
Published by RIZZOLI
Almost thirty years after his death from AIDS, Brainard, the influential and much-loved New York School collagist, poet, memoirist, and painter, gets a much-due celebration of his intimate work.
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The Passenger Box Set
By CORMAC McCARTHY
Published by KNOPF
The literary event of the season, Pulitzer Prize-winning McCarthy offers two connected haunting novels about a salvage diver and his suicidal sister, now in a beautifully designed boxed set.
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Revenge of the Librarians
By TOM GAULD
Published by DRAWN & QUARTERLY
A hilarious cartoon collection for any literary enthusiast, with Gauld’s hallmark dark humor taking potshots at novelists, editors, and poets, and that intimidating TBR pile by everyone’s bedside.
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Women Holding Things
By HARPER DESIGN
Published by MAIRA KALMAN
A bright, joyful collection of paintings of women from Virginia Woolf and Sally Hemings to Gertrude Stein, both famous and ordinary, holding things that are dear.
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Ulysses
By JAMES JOYCE, EDUARDO ARROYO
Published by OTHER PRESS
The classic 100-year-old Irish novel now presented in a gorgeous keepsake edition with Spanish artist Arroyo’s vivid illustrations—a must for Joyce enthusiasts.
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