Abraham Josephine “Josie” Riesman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Abraham Josephine “Josie” Riesman on XNYT-bestselling transbian authoress: TRUE BELIEVER / RINGMASTER / HOLLYWOOD FREAKS. Board, @JewishCurrents. Against messianism. she/her 🏳️⚧️

Tunnels
Rutu Modan@Cormac_McCafe TUNNELS by Rutu Modan. Tintin meets Raiders of the Lost Ark. Fuckin great shit and very readable
Hardcover, 2021
$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus
Stan LeeIt’s like some kind of Victorian advertisement for a West End play: STAN LEE The Story of Marvel In the Life of a Creator (and Businessman) Both Beloved and Controversial
Out of stock

Big Bill
A. R. GurneyRead my dad’s amazing investigative biography of Big Bill!!! https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo6701925.html https://twitter.com/chiblueshistory/status/1542478616130371584
Paperback, 2005
$15.95Member price:$14.35 + Free shipping10% off
Superman: Action Comics: World Against Superman
Grant MorrisonThinking about how much I loved SUPERMAN AND THE AUTHORITY, which was arguably the most cynical superhero comic Grant Morrison has ever written
Out of stock

Foundation
Isaac AsimovIn his opening lecture, he said he liked economics because it was the real-world version of Isaac Asimov’s (fictional!!) concept of “psychohistory” (which the Foundation novels make clear is a bad thing!!!!!)
Paperback, Mass Market, 1991
$10.00Member price:$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
One More Year
Simon HanselmannI didn’t write it **as** a blurb (it was part of an essay) but Simon Hanselmann’s ONE MORE YEAR is still the best blurb presentation I’ve ever received https://t.co/sHUQesMMeV
Hardcover, 2017
$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Operation Shylock: A Confession (Pen/Faulkner Award)
Philip RothThough I have my problems with Philip Roth, OPERATION SHYLOCK remains the final word on the ideas and emotions that wrack Israel, and the Palestinians. I’m glad I read it _after_ I’d already been delusional enough to think I had anything new to say about Zionism and occupation
Paperback, 1994
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony JudtTony Judt’s rant about punk rock in POSTWAR is resonating extra hard today https://t.co/SfYC61ivtv
Paperback, 2006
$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of J
Harold Bloomhttps://t.co/7IfFilX37M (well, technically THE BOOK OF J, but Harold Bloom got what I was going for) https://t.co/MDYvkTMu8P
Paperback, 2004
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seduction of the Innocent
Fredric Wertham“Either they fantasy themselves as supermen, with the attendant prejudices against the submen, or it makes them submissive and receptive to the blandishments of strong men who will solve all their social problems for them — by force.” — Fredric Wertham, SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT
Hardcover, 1999
$53.95Member price:$53.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)