John McMurtrie
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Nonfiction editor, @KirkusReviews. General editor of LITERARY JOURNEYS, published by @princetonupress.
Bay Area
Joined May 2010
Redwood branches fell during a rainstorm. I carved one of them into chopsticks.
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RT @KirkusReviews: Nonfiction editor @mcmurtriesf recommends AFLAME (⭐) by @picoiyer on this week's Fully Booked 🎧 .
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RT @KirkusReviews: “There’s a certain kind of communal silence that speaks for the deepest part of us, where we have much more in common th….
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RT @KirkusReviews: Nonfiction editor @mcmurtriesf recommends KEEP IT ZESTY by Edy Massih on part one of our Fully Booked Holiday Gift Guide….
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RT @KirkusReviews: Nonfiction editor @mcmurtriesf recommends Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me by @guidetoglo on Ful….
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RT @KirkusReviews: With #Election2024 in its final days, #nonfiction editor @mcmurtriesf weighs in on the season's many, many political tom….
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RT @KirkusReviews: Nonfiction editor @mcmurtriesf recommends LINGUAPHILE ⭐️ by @JulieSedivy on this week's Fully Booked podcast 🎧 https://t….
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RT @KirkusReviews: Are you ready for #KirkusPrize2024🏆 tomorrow evening? To prep you, @McMurtrieSF introduces the finalists for the #nonfic….
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RT @KirkusReviews: Nonfiction editor @mcmurtriesf recommends THE DRIVING MACHINE ⭐️ by @witoldr on this week's Fully Booked 🎧 https://t.co/….
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RT @KirkusReviews: Nonfiction editor @mcmurtriesf recommends NIGHT MAGIC ⭐️ by @lahenion on Fully Booked 🎧 @algonqu….
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RT @KirkusReviews: Nonfiction editor @mcmurtriesf recommends CONNIE ⭐️ by Connie Chung on Fully Booked 🎧 @grandcent….
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RT @PrincetonUPress: Join @McMurtrieSF at @bookpassage's SF Ferry Building Store tomorrow (9/18) at 5:30 pm PDT, where he will be discussin….
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RT @PrincetonUPress: Please join @ChevaliersBooks in welcoming @McMurtrieSF for a discussion on his new illustrated guide, Literary Journey….
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RT @KirkusReviews: Nonfiction editor @McMurtrieSF recommends THE RISING by Larry Silverstein on this week's Fully Booked 🎧 .
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RT @PrincetonUPress: Join @McMurtrieSF at Clio's this Wednesday (Sept. 11) at 7 pm PDT to celebrate the release of his new book Literary Jo….
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RT @KirkusReviews: Nonfiction editor @mcmurtriesf recommends PARIS IN RUINS ⭐️ by Sebastian Smee on Fully Booked 🎧 .
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I will miss @stevesilberman. He was a sweetheart. And he had an appreciation of the impermanence of life. In 2011, I asked him to write about his most treasured book; this is what he wrote.
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A little bit about me and my new job as the nonfiction editor of @KirkusReviews. Enjoy!.
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As a reader, McMurtrie calls himself a proud generalist, led by his “insatiable curiosity.”
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I’m honored and thrilled to be joining @KirkusReviews.
Welcome to our new #nonfiction editor, @McMurtrieSF. John was #books editor of the San Francisco Chronicle for a decade and a senior editor at Zyzzyva. Watch this space for his nonfiction recommendations! #bookreviews
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This is awful news. East Bay Booksellers is one of my favorite Bay Area bookstores.
An early morning fire Tuesday destroyed a popular bookstore on College Avenue in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood, and displaced five people who lived upstairs.
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