chris borrelli Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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chris borrelli on XChristopher Borrelli is a features and culture writer for the Chicago Tribune. Chicago Tribune features writer. Militant Rhode Islander. Northwestern/Harvard/Syracuse. Nieman fellow. DM for tips here. email: cborrelli@chicagotribune.com
Planes
Peter C. Bakerchris borrelli“Planes”... which reads like vintage Don DeLillo at his most thoughtful, is a short work of recent history about the way our choices resonate beyond our view.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookSouth to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perrychris borrelliA genre-trip full of detours into history, folklore, memoir and art, moving state by state, told by a Chicago native determined to push past the archetypes of one region to get at the ways in which the entire country’s legacy of contradictions protects us from hard truths.
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMount Chicago
Adam Levinchris borrelliThe plot of Adam Levin’s big new novel Mount Chicago is something of a daydream for a lot of Chicagoans: The Loop and most of Michigan Ave falls into a sinkhole. It’s a really good book. My conversation with Levin. https://t.co/wqIPvT3cmA
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Rabbit Hutch: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Tess Guntychris borrelliUnstable in the very best ways, ambitious without driving you to distraction, touching without sentiment, this snapshot of loneliness in a Midwest apartment block is a transcendent debut.
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookChain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyahchris borrelliI talked to @NK_Adjei about his great topic - America’s talent for allowing a certain amount of “acceptable violence.” His new novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars, is so rousing and violent you find yourself wincing. https://t.co/a9VCA10hEl
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookHeartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
Rob Sheffieldchris borrelliCulture writer Rob Sheffield’s 'Heartbreak is the National Anthem' is an impressionistic portrait of Taylor Swift, a slender one, not remotely definitive, but rather, more interesting — the first serious attempt to place Swift inside a music history.
Hardcover, 2024
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylanchris borrelliA big smile of a read. That academic title is a wink. Dylan selects more than 60 of his favorite songs then leaps into freewheeling history, lots of associative memories and, here and there, thoughts on songwriting and creativity and even a few subjects he has long avoided...
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading about Eating, and Eating While Reading
Dwight Garnerchris borrelliOne of the most eccentric memoirs I've read in years: Garner, a longtime New York Times critic, boils (dices and purées) his existence down to a pair of obsessions--books and food--so completely, it's both honest and hard to say where the man ends and M.F.K. Fisher begins.
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
Deborah Levychris borrelliThe Position of Spoons, by ultra-prolific Deborah Levy, plays like a lunch with an especially sharp, scattered pal, with brief (often one or two pages total) thoughts on celebrity death, Collette, female friendships, lemons...
Hardcover, 2024
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Devil Takes You Home
Gabino Iglesiaschris borrelliVintage noir, with an air of “Heart of Darkness,” played at America’s Southern border, for all the racism and heartache that implies. What you’re not expecting is magic realism (and that bit of horror) paired to pitch-dark crime fiction about cyclical violence.
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book