Colin Dickey 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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Colin Dickey is an author, curator, and critic. New book: Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy (7/23). Also Ghostland & others. Rep @annasproul. Opinions mine. he/him
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty MedsgerColin Dickey@RebeccaStefoff It’s just a small (but important!) part of my next book, but Betty Medsger’s The Burglary tells the story in great detail and is definitely a must-read
Paperback, 2014
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When Women Kill
Alia Trabucco ZeránColin DickeyAlia Trabucco Zerán on Marilyn Frye’s “A Note on Anger”: anger in women is delegitimized as hysterical, excessive, irrational, etc., because anger is fundamentally a response to injustice, and thus inherently political. (From Zerán’s When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold) https://t.co/rPHU3DTDoW
Paperback, 2022
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The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
Pamela HaagColin DickeyAlso my review of Pamela Haag's The Gunning of America, and the relationship between the Winchester Rifle, Oliver and Sarah Winchester, and the mourning (or lack thereof) of the American Indian genocide: https://t.co/a8HOSAE5v6
Hardcover, 2016
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Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-18
Erik R. SeemanColin DickeyWould 100% murder this man (from Erik R. Seeman’s Death in the New World) https://t.co/QwJQGgiZYO
Paperback, 2011
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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
Joseph OsmundsonColin DickeyJoseph Osmundson’s Virology is one of the best essay collections I’ve read in quite a long while, and I’m not even to the chapter co-written with @patricknathan
Paperback, 2022
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Scum Manifesto
Valerie SolanasColin DickeyPlato's Republic and Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto--what are other books that more or less accurately identify the cause of the problem and then go on to suggest solutions so singular that readers can never tell for sure if they're being serious or not
Paperback, 2013
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Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune
Mary Jo IgnoffoColin Dickey@MaggieTweets3 @grady_hendrix Mary Jo Ignoffo’s Captive of the Labyrinth & Pamela Jag’s The Gunning of America are both great
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The Death Rituals of Rural Greece
Loring M. DanforthColin DickeyThe two stages in everyone's life are 1) before you've read Loring M. Danforth's The Death Rituals of Rural Greece and 2) after you've read Loring M. Danforth's The Death Rituals of Rural Greece
Paperback, 1982
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The God of Small Things
Arundhati RoyColin DickeyDoes Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things hold up? I haven’t read it since 1999, have almost no memory of it other than that I liked it.
Paperback, 2008
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Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
Susan JonusasColin DickeyTONIGHT! I'll be talking to @susanjonusas about her amazing new book, Hell's Half-Acre, out today, about the Bender Family, the Spiritualist serial killers whose outrageous story came to define the American West in the late 19th century. Come join us! https://twitter.com/Watermarkbooks/status/1498682146243944450
Paperback, 2023
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