Cultural Reporting & Criticism 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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Lesser Islands
Lorenza PieriCultural Reporting & CriticismCRC alum @jcaselevine reviews Lorenza Pieri’s “Lesser Islands”. Read it in @LAReviewofBooks! https://t.co/wykG2LzpDM
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Rachel AvivCultural Reporting & CriticismCRC alum @cal_hitchcock reviews @RachelAviv's 'Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us'. https://t.co/tDiPR2ETyS
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Big Hurt: A Memoir
Erika SchickelCultural Reporting & Criticism.@Lily_H_Smith in @LAReviewofBooks on Erika Schickel's "The Big Hurt": "This is the contradiction that Schickel loves to sit in — that space between victimhood and culpability where the mess of actual human experience resides." https://t.co/aHavUyxJcW
Hardcover, 2021
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Janet MalcolmCultural Reporting & CriticismCRC alum Lucy McKeon writes about Janet Malcolm’s final book, ‘Still Pictures,’ in @aperturefnd. https://t.co/Mf7K0Ejs5A
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Carry the Dog
Stephanie GangiCultural Reporting & Criticism"Gangi’s erratic, fun, and touching novel is, in many ways, a story about change and what it looks like to embrace or reject its attendant discomforts." @Lily_H_Smith reviews Stephanie Gangi's CARRY THE DOG for @ChicagoRevBooks: https://t.co/UFMltxzSeg
Paperback, 2022
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Raving
McKenzie WarkCultural Reporting & Criticism“Raving is intense enough that it cuts through the noise of gender.” Read CRC alum @geoff_mak and @noyinzoe's conversation with McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) about her new book, ‘Raving’, in @thenation. https://t.co/wCd4vWJQ0m
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson
Suzaan BoettgerCultural Reporting & CriticismCRC alum @_zackhatfield discusses explores what we can learn about Robert Smithson in a new biography, ‘Inside the Spiral,’ by Suzaan Boettger (@NatrCultr). Read it in @Artforum. https://t.co/uVc0Hi5Y71
Paperback, 2023
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Analyst: A Daughter's Memoir
Alice WexlerCultural Reporting & CriticismWhat’s life like for the child of a psychoanalyst? CRC alum @APockros discusses Alex Wexler’s ‘The Analyst’ — psychoanalyst Milton Wexler’s daughter attempt to asses his intricate and often troubled life. Read it in @thenation. https://t.co/TXHnGUiqwq
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Very Cold People
Sarah MangusoCultural Reporting & CriticismCRC alumna @sarasara_sck ('21) reviewed Sarah Manguso's Very Cold People for @bookforum: https://t.co/NAOvoLQoC2
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Women
Susan SontagCultural Reporting & CriticismWhat would Susan Sontag be like on Twitter? Read CRC professor @katieroiphe1's latest article in @TheAtlantic about Susan Sontag and her essay collection, ‘On Women.’ https://t.co/xYc782Ixqh
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book