Amit Chaudhuri 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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Author, A Strange and Sublime Address, Sojourn; critic; singer, Indian classical tradition; composer:This Is Not Fusion, Found Music
Good Vibrations: A Children's Picture Book
Brian WilsonAmit Chaudhuri‘Good Vibrations’, incorporating ragas Kalavati and Abhogi - an attempt, through discrete rhythmic movements, to rework not only the song but what Brian Wilson called the idea of a ‘pop symphony’: https://t.co/NVnh05T7JY From the King’s Place concert: album release on Friday.
Hardcover, 2020
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sojourn
Charles MeyersAmit ChaudhuriThis excerpt, put together by an editor from various sections of Sojourn, is out in @Harpers: https://t.co/wUXIQLRMn7 It’s behind a paywall. I bought a copy yesterday from Grand Central Station and am sharing photos of the pages. @NYRB_Imprints @FaberBooks @PenguinIndia https://t.co/wifdJpX2R9
Paperback, 2019
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Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture
Amit ChaudhuriAmit ChaudhuriWonderful essay on Finding the Raga in @prospect_uk by @ivanhewett, music critic of the Daily Telegraph: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-surprising-story-of-indian-classical-music Ivan’s reviewed me twice before - my essays in Clearing a Space, and a performance of mine at the Brecon Jazz Festival. Great to have his response here
Hardcover, 2008
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The Concert
Lindsay AndersonAmit Chaudhuri(producer of Lindsay Anderson's Look Back in Anger, Derek Jarman's The Tempest; director in his own right) and incorporated into an essay-film of the same name. Besides the concert, it includes interviews, memories, and ruminations.
Paperback, 2018
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Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears
Laszlo F. FoldenyiAmit ChaudhuriChoosing 'books of the year' for @Openthemag gave me a chance to write about László Földényi's Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears and Enzo Traverso's Left-Wing Melancholia: https://t.co/RYXPBXJuj5
Paperback, 2021
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Derrida: A Very Short Introduction
Simon GlendinningAmit ChaudhuriSimon Glendinning’s talk at the 2017 ‘Literary Activism’ symposium on Reassessments: https://t.co/zJk41Gthx2 A reflection - via Marx and Derrida, in relation to Eurocentricism - on forms of self-critique that free us up to reassess what’s valuable in other cultures and our own.
Paperback, 2011
$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grand Central Station: The History of New York City's Famous Railroad Terminal
Charles RiverAmit ChaudhuriThis excerpt, put together by an editor from various sections of Sojourn, is out in @Harpers: https://t.co/wUXIQLRMn7 It’s behind a paywall. I bought a copy yesterday from Grand Central Station and am sharing photos of the pages. @NYRB_Imprints @FaberBooks @PenguinIndia https://t.co/wifdJpX2R9
Paperback, 2015
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Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
Amit ChaudhuriAmit ChaudhuriA conversation with the Hindustan Time’s Chintan Modi, in which we talked about Finding the Raga and North Indian classical music, but also about Paris and DH Lawrence: https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/interview-amit-chaudhuri-author-finding-the-raga-which-way-you-are-going-to-turn-is-unknown-to-you-101658501003996.html @htTweets @chintanwriting
Paperback, 2021
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory
Enzo TraversoAmit ChaudhuriChoosing 'books of the year' for @Openthemag gave me a chance to write about László Földényi's Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears and Enzo Traverso's Left-Wing Melancholia: https://t.co/RYXPBXJuj5
Hardcover, 2017
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Four Quartets
T. S. EliotAmit ChaudhuriI’ve started writing a column for @nplusonemag called Footnotes, to tease out cultural history, personal memory, and meaning from a word, phrase, or line. In the first, I’m looking at ‘human kind cannot bear very much reality’ from Eliot’s Four Quartets: https://t.co/kig8Vn4zlx
Paperback, 2023
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