Alex Shephard 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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Alex Shephard is a staff writer at The New Republic. staff writer @newrepublic. cohost @mrdifficultpod. founded @fullstopmag with my friends. ashephard@tnr.com
A Fan's Notes
Frederick ExleyAlex Shephard@lachristensen I read some of this for a piece a couple years ago and found it pretty useful. Not social science per se, but he does talk to some people who study fandom. (Also doesn't fit the bill but Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes pretty much sums it up) https://t.co/dMCStnPv7G
Paperback, 1988
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Why Read: Selected Writings 2001-2021
Will SelfAlex Shephardthese cowards flipped the author and title so as to not ask the provocative question "why read will self" https://t.co/U6Ib6wCjzs
Paperback, 2024
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Wizard of the Crow
Ngugi Wa Thiong'oAlex ShephardA manic book that is frequently labeled as magical realism, Wizard of the Crow is also a love letter to African storytelling—it was, in fact, written to be read aloud.
Paperback, 2007
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Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association
Terry PlutoAlex Shephard@MattZeitlin if you haven't read it, the rick barry stuff in terry pluto's "loose balls" (a masterpiece) is so insanely good.... guy is just a world historical asshole, but him ragging on the ABA is really funny
Paperback, 2007
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Infinite Jest
David Foster WallaceAlex ShephardI recently learned that David Foster Wallace watched the family comedy "Beethoven" repeatedly while doing edits on Infinite Jest https://t.co/A14kSmgxsA
Hardcover, 1996
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Simple Passion
Annie ErnauxAlex ShephardIt is a powerful depiction of being lost—or perhaps enveloped—by another person and, with apologies to Graham Greene and Anne Serre, possibly the best book about an affair ever written.
Paperback, 2003
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Poems
Arlo BatesAlex Shephardthe movie Bright Star: John Keats is so handsome and romantic, he just walks around Hampstead Heath reciting poems about birds the real John Keats: 4 and a half foot tall ginger dork, real shrunk down Ron Weasley looking mfer https://t.co/9uI0B01lEf
Paperback, 2023
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Crossroads
Jonathan FranzenAlex Shephard@TerrenceDoyle just checked and in several photos from mine I am bringing big "cover of Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads" energy https://t.co/Km0TuF7Boi
Paperback, 2022
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Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
Jonathan GouldAlex Shephard@dankois let me make sure it's in that and not Jonathan Gould's Can't Buy Me Love (which is 70 percent amazing and 30 percent absolutely godawful)...
Paperback, 2008
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Red or Dead
David PeaceAlex Shephard@hailcheaters @bskbroiler awesome! I can't wait to tell the story of the worst publishing decision I helped make happen ($250 special editions of David Peace's Red or Dead, which I was convinced would sell out after Liverpool won the league in 2014 😬)
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