𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

@asymmetricinfo Not 100% what you're looking for, but Mark Singer's Funny Money (1985) is a wonderful book. It's about the collapse of Penn Square, the Oklahoma S&L that fell apart very early on in that whole mess.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

TIL that Erich Maria Remarque, the German author of the landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front, was married to Hollywood star--and Chaplin ex-wife--Paulette Goddard, with whom he lived for the last 20 years of his life on East 57th Street. https://t.co/IOJ870HySy

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

The Library of America has just published all the novels by Charles Portis (“everybody’s favorite least-known great novelist”--Jonathan Lethem) in a single volume. Here's a fine intro to a unique writer: https://t.co/fujOCSy3sz

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

"Majid [an anxious non-drinker] gazed at Catherine's martini like a hungry cowboy looking at a plate of sushi." An excellent sentence from my pal Ed's new thriller, which is full of such good sentences. #shamelessplug https://t.co/ZsDApLHl5k

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

Boy, there's some sting at the end of this NY Times review of the new Sally Rooney novel: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/beautiful-world-where-are-you-sally-rooney.html https://t.co/3CMaloM7Cw

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

If you're in the Boston area, come to the Harvard Bookstore Friday at 7pm to hear the excellent Annalee Newitz "in conversation" with yrs truly about their (real good) new novel, The Terraformers! Annalee's great--I promise a fine time will be had by all. https://t.co/MbmVfG4Y6u

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

If you're curious about The Dawn of Everything, the soon-to-be-released book by David Graeber and @davidwengrow, you could do worse than read this excellent review by science historian Emily Atkins: https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/emily-m-kern-radical-promise-human-history

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

"Technology is a way of organizing the world so that man doesn’t have to experience it." --Max Frisch, "Homo Faber" (1957)

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

Elegiac interview with the radical California writer Mike Davis, who is dying of esophageal cancer: https://t.co/Phk4zA2Vzi (A surprise to me: one of Davis's favorite books is Myron Brinig's vicious anti-bohemian satire, Flutter of an Eyelid [1933].)

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

A year since the death of the terrific writer Bruce Duffy, author of "The World as I Found It," a historical novel--the best I've ever read?--about Wittgenstein. Obits said he'd finished another, "American Humdinger," on Oppenheimer. My New Year wish: somebody please publish it!

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