Alan Scherstuhl Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Editor/writer. PW. Village Voice for life. Bylines in NYT, Slate, Longreads, LARB, CHIRB, Shelf A, Vulture, RS, Downbeat. Warning: Will tweet about books & jazz

6 books

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

Alan Scherstuhl

@parabasis Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Old Man and Me

Elaine Dundy

Alan Scherstuhl

Elaine Dundy's "The Old Man and Me" is the first novel I've ever read whose author dishes in the introduction what Miles Davis said about it

Paperback, 2009

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Book Cover for: The Ancients, John Larison

The novel's imaginative sweep connects the ages of papyrus, pulp fiction and 20th-century epic potboilers such as Leon Uris's Exodus. As survival fiction, the first chapters of The Ancients measure up to the work of Jack London and other greats of the genre.

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

Pedro Lemebel

Alan Scherstuhl

What a joy for English readers to at last meet this humanist provocateur who celebrates and memorializes queer lives in a fascist state with fire, love, and a tireless spirit of play.

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Two Nights in Lisbon

Chris Pavone

Alan Scherstuhl

I have a habit of starting thrillers then abandoning them after 50 pages for being silly, but Chris Pavone’s “Two Nights in Lisbon” seized me by the throat 5 pages in and I’m annoyed whenever I’m not reading it https://t.co/9VFC2rznYh

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Confessions of Matthew Strong

Ousmane Power-Greene

Alan Scherstuhl

I’m knocked out by Ousmane K. Power-Greene’s “The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” a smart, unsettling, tense-as-hell novel about a Black professor of philosophy’s life, work, history—and her shocking encounter with the white supremacists stalking her https://t.co/Sdn0YkkvgS

Hardcover, 2022

$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book