Charles Arrowsmith 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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Charles Arrowsmith is an editor and writer. digger, listener, runner; senior editor at @nypl; quizmaster; occasional writings found at @WashingtonPost @LATimes @Independent @BostonGlobe @TheDailyBeast
![Book Cover for: The Wolves of Eternity, Karl Ove Knausgaard](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780593490839.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709849004)
The Wolves of Eternity
Karl Ove Knausgaard![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
But despite his preoccupation with death and loftier philosophical purpose, Knausgaard remains one of the great chroniclers of the moment-by-moment experience of life... acutely in tune with the simultaneity of life’s majesty and banality.
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![Book Cover for: Just William: Volume 1, Richmal Crompton](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781447285588.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725749318)
Just William: Volume 1
Richmal Crompton![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
Ahhh lovely insightful tribute to the comic genius of Richmal Crompton as (Just) William turns 100. Splendid work by @edrowett and team! https://t.co/SazHdFSJYp
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![Book Cover for: Monsieur Proust, Céleste Albaret](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781590170595.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709844150)
Monsieur Proust
Céleste Albaret![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
Other things I'd add in a heartbeat: • Proust Among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie, probably my favourite book about him • Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret, who was his devoted housekeeper for the last few years of his life • Proust by Roger Shattuck, despite the dodgy diagrams
Paperback, 2003
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780811225502.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725749318)
The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
“how cruel that we must wake each time to answer to the same name, revive the same memories, take up the same habits and stupidities that we shouldered the day before and lay down to sleep.” —Helen DeWitt (@helendewitt), The Last Samurai, p123
Paperback, 2016
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: William, Richmal Crompton](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781021210388.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709844540)
William
Richmal Crompton![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
Ahhh lovely insightful tribute to the comic genius of Richmal Crompton as (Just) William turns 100. Splendid work by @edrowett and team! https://t.co/SazHdFSJYp
Paperback, 2023
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Ulysses, James Joyce](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780679722762.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725749318)
Ulysses
James Joyce![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
Dreamt that Glenda Jackson offered me a wad of banknotes to stage-manage a shambolic musical performance of James Joyce’s Ulysses that she was directing where the props were all chocolate (e.g. Toblerone)
Paperback, 1990
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780593469163.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709849080)
The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
Listened to The Shards' sun-drenched blood-soaked tale unfold on the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast on moonlit runs through the long COVID winter of 2020/21 and now it's a book that I quite enjoyed https://t.co/hPtmmQVeD6
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021, Gary Indiana](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781644211625.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709849333)
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021
Gary Indiana![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
“Like many technical innovations, home video ‘saves time,’ while leaching the flavor out of the time it saves.” —Gary Indiana, “Movie Rites,” in Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021, p282
Paperback, 2022
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Working, Robert A. Caro](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780593081914.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709841258)
Working
Robert A. Caro![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
Starry-eyed seeing Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb talk about their five-decade working relationship at @nypl tonight 🤩 https://t.co/3uDSKK7yJe
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780679728757.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709841860)
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy![Charles Arrowsmith](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/8efe4738-8534-4e44-9178-6dcbbbde5c78.webp)
This book has been sitting on my shelf for some time and now this thread makes me want to give up everything else and just read Blood Meridian https://t.co/ZNfNNtGzOF
Paperback, 1992
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book