Daniel Akst Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Daniel Akst

For more such delight, follow up with @DanaGioiaPoet's charming and evocative essay collection, "Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life."

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Just finished Michael Lewis' The Undoing Project, on Kahneman and Tversky. Funny, enlightening and powerfully moving--just completely captivating on every level. If you're the kind of person who'd follow me on Twitter, drop everything and read it.

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@taffyakner Don’t underestimate the hilarious Seder in Seth Greenland’s the Hazards of Good Fortune.

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@chen_ken The Adventurist. Its predecessor The Moviegoer. Anthony Quinn’s Freya trilogy. Slaves of Solitude. EM Delafield eg War Workers. David Lodge’s Nice Work. Julie Schumacher. Morte d’Urban. Then We Came to the End.

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Greatest appreciation of its kind I can ever recall reading though that huckleberry @DrDominicGreen doesn't mention The Scooter. Stop whatever you are doing and read this bit of paradise by the dashboard light. #Meatloaf https://www.wsj.com/articles/meat-loaf-bat-out-of-hell-jim-steinman-two-out-of-three-aint-bad-rocky-horror-picture-show-11642805045?st=hof0oujbydlanbb&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJopinion

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My friend Laura Galloway's amazing book Dalvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra, is coming in paperback and I recommend it to all. She spent that time among the Sami, and her captivating memoir is moving, funny and irresistible.

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Don’t be fooled by the academic-sounding title; [Machiavelli's] Discourses on Livy has a great deal to teach us about leadership in any organization resembling a republic. Chances are, that includes your business.

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@chen_ken The Adventurist. Its predecessor The Moviegoer. Anthony Quinn’s Freya trilogy. Slaves of Solitude. EM Delafield eg War Workers. David Lodge’s Nice Work. Julie Schumacher. Morte d’Urban. Then We Came to the End.

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It’s hard to think of another book that more effectively dramatizes the fraught relations between executives and their lawyers, or the complex web of obligations that enmeshes both. It’s also about love, social standing, and empire building.

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@riva_lehrer @ruth_franklin Stanley Elkin has one like this, a really marvelous short underappreciated novel that deserves to be better known. The Rabbi of Lud.