Dan Saltzstein Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Dan Saltzstein on XSenior editor, Special Projects at @nytimes. Ruthless Cosmopolitan in Queens. Cocktail and rye whiskey enthusiast. https://t.co/URgJvsKJy1

Hotel Iris
Yoko Ogawa@blgtylr The man in Hotel Iris, by Yoko Ogawa. I can’t think of a bad guy that’s stayed with me in the same way.
Paperback, 2010
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Designated Mourner
Wallace Shawn(If you’ve never heard of THE DESIGNATED MOURNER, don’t feel bad. It’s a David Hare filmed adaptation of a Wallace Shawn play starring Mike Nichols!!)
Paperback, 2010
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crash: Deluxe Edition
J. G. Ballard@alexanderchee The first thing that comes to mind is Ballard’s CRASH, but that’s probably not what you’re looking for. I haven’t read it, but I know people who love GO LIKE HELL, about Ford v. Ferrari at Le Mans.
Hardcover, 2019
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mike Nichols: A Life
Mark Harris@paulrimple @lospilares11 Indeed! If you haven't read Mark Harris's excellent Mike Nichols biography, I highly recommend it. Spends some time on their Compass Theater years.
Paperback, 2022
$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler@afrosypaella Octavia Butler! Fused with sci-fi/futurism. Most notably "Parable of the Sower" but other stuff too.
Paperback, 2019
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Mark Harris@BCDreyer (Also, as Mark Harris writes in Pictures at a Revolution, Steiger was heavily favored two years earlier for The Pawnbroker, but lost to … Lee Marvin. So, you know, [gestures vaguely at the Academy])
Paperback, 2009
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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
Mark VanhoenackerGreat shoutout to my old classmate @markv747 in here! Listen to Ms. Brooks and read his book "Skyfaring." https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1537446164609392642
Paperback, 2016
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dictee
Theresa Hak Kyung ChaRT @sarahw: So so glad Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha, author of the wondrous DICTEE, life cruelly and horribly cut short, gets a decades-overdue ob…
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Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
Matt BellFor more advice on this, read @mdbell79’s REFUSE TO BE DONE. It’s about revision in fiction writing but it’s also about removing obstacles for yourself and keeping that momentum going. https://t.co/Ebtrk5OexH
Paperback, 2022
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David GrannThis is such a good author’s note. From @DavidGrann’s new book, “The Wager,” which I’m about to gobble up. https://t.co/YZMQIeSM3t
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book