David Evans Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

David Evans

If you want a starting point, I really enjoyed his novel Wizard of the Crow (https://t.co/yEAoXK4hNr). Also one of his several memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War. What's your favorite by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o? https://t.co/Ek8yl3aHyM

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@marcfbellemare @bdkwood @JaeJaeykim2 I'm afraid much of my travel reading consists of Louise Penny's Gamache novels, Robert Parker's Spenser novels, and Lee Child's Reacher novels.

David Evans

Lots of great comments here, but Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo is the clearest consensus. https://t.co/s9INXnDO6L https://t.co/XPlH0xtHoI

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I'm very excited to read this new book by my good friend, Professor Aaron Sachs: *Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change* https://t.co/WB0gu49OEd (If you want a taste, he published a related op-ed on April Fools' Day https://t.co/5ayKHNTGVV.) https://t.co/qPpSTDYSCi

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The single most unrealistic element in Jack Finney's 1954 novel *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* is that the way the protagonist knows a professor has been "snatched" is that the professor hasn't been making progress on his research. https://t.co/OgcacfeiR7

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"Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania" is now forthcoming at the World Bank Economic Review! You can read the latest version here: https://t.co/mr8UgMdCrM. https://t.co/NBGSKcHoN4

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I recently finished Octavia Butler's excellent 1993 dystopian novel *Parable of the Sower*. https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries As @abby_aguirre writes in the @NewYorker, "for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel and its sequel may be unmatched." https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again

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Early this morning I finished the audiobook of Omar El Akkad's *What Strange Paradise*. https://t.co/2h0gTUyIwp It's a mesmerizing, visceral novel. https://t.co/ng5zbYTwuI

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Roth describes the whole process in his inspiring book *Who Gets What—and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design*: https://t.co/LLeG4bwcQM. Here's a summary from Edward Glaeser's review: https://t.co/gh7cXm0k7J. 2/2 https://t.co/jzyH6uwwYl

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Herman Melville on socioeconomic gradients in bureaucratic obstacles in his 1851 novel Moby Dick (https://t.co/0ZNrxMLRva.): "Sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."