Chris Vognar 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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Chris Vognar is a culture writer. Culture writer; concerned citizen. @nytimes, @latimes, @rollingstone, @bostonglobe, etc. Words, words, words. Nieman Fellow, @Harvard. Can’t knock the hustle.
Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence
Ken AulettaChris VognarFor the @latimes I talked to Ken Auletta about his long pursuit of Harvey Weinstein and his new book, Hollywood Ending. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-07-11/ken-auletta-missed-the-harvey-weinstein-scoop-20-years-later-his-new-bio-still-matters
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael PollanChris VognarJust finished speaking with Michael Pollan about the upcoming Netflix adaptation of How to Change Your Mind. A guy a admire on many levels.
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David GrannChris Vognar@DavidGrann’s The Wager is narrative nonfiction at its finest, a dark seafaring saga that lets you feel the sting of freezing saltwater against the face. Scorsese is already on it. I reviewed for The @BostonGlobe.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lazarus Man
Richard PriceChris VognarHis books, including the new Lazarus Man, are also masterworks of character, atmosphere, symbolism and whatever else those scribes over in the supposedly higher-tone literature section might throw at you ... Price...remains one of the most rewarding, compulsively readable fiction writers around.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shutter Island
Dennis LehaneChris VognarBetween Shutter Island and Black Bird Dennis Lehane is really digging on the criminally insane
Paperback, 2021
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Faith: In Your Own Handwriting
Steve DavisChris VognarWhat a varied career Steve Winwood has had. Spencer Davis Group. Blind Faith. Traffic. Go. Ginger Baker’s Air Force. Solo. When you see him live he has such a vast repertoire to choose from.
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie JamisonChris Vognar@cindyaweinstein @Schrumza @marykarrlit I loved all three of Karr’s, especially Lit, which helped me get sober…along those lines, also a big fan of Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering.
Paperback, 2019
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Strangers on a Train
Patricia HighsmithChris VognarI wrote about the new doc Loving Highsmith and Patricia Highsmith’s Texas roots. Gonna introduce Strangers on a Train this Saturday at @MFAH. https://t.co/DjnBPBU7be
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Boom Times for the End of the World
Scott TimbergChris VognarRequiem for a culture writer: I wrote about the late, great Scott Timberg and his new posthumous collection, Boom Times for the End of the World. His story cuts very close to my own. https://t.co/T4WiecYwoA
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Government Means to Kill Me
Rasheed NewsonChris VognarGood novel alert: My Government Means to Kill Me, @RasheedNewson’s bildingsroman about a young gay Black man who comes to New York in the ‘80s and discovers activism. Sharp mix of history and imagination. Interview forthcoming.
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book