Alan Levinovitz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alan Levinovitz

“She herself would have to take some course in art history and music appreciation — music was always appreciated, whereas art had a history…” 😂 from The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

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Update: Thanks to Twitter responses to the below tweet, I decided to pick up Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. It is one of the best novels I've ever read. Just devastating, brilliant, deep, real. Couldn't put it down. https://t.co/GjFybGpV9v

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About to start teaching one of my absolute favorite books, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. If you don't know about it and you're interested *at all* in religion, medicine, and culture, I highly recommend it. Or if you're just in the market for a great book.

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“He’s got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees…” Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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Alan Watts really nailing it here, whether or not this is a good academic take on early Buddhism, it’s just plain wise. https://t.co/JQtYhqgUWX

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@johnnygreavu Right?! A real mystically amazing keeper. And I have high hopes for the book, I’ve only read one other Alan Watts (Psychology East and West, which was great).

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Thanks to ⁦@CyrilUyII⁩ I got to read the most interesting table of contents ever written. (13th C Muslim debunking, The Book of Charlatans.) https://t.co/dW63kw81JI

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Helen Keller is not down with nostalgia (from her short book Optimism). https://t.co/sWwEY4h6lK

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I’m only a 1/5 into the book (Player Piano) but it seems VERY relevant to ChatGPT, tech optimism/pessimism, just like Vonnegut’s short story “Unready to Wear”, a must read. https://t.co/z802Rd8VBz

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Just saw a tweet bemoaning the generally low quality of poems that circulate widely on Twitter. Fair enough. As an antidote, here's one of my very favorites. A banger from the first line, and just keeps getting better. "In Place of a Curse" by John Ciardi https://t.co/o1J0pkxqXg