David Friend 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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An editor @VanityFair; author, The Naughty 90s; Watching the World Change; The Meaning of Life; Emmy-winning producer, “9/11,” @MLKFBI @lakotanationdoc

Healing After Loss:: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief
Martha W. Hickman
@seahorsebend Jenn, this book is invaluable. Healing After Loss By Martha Witmore Hickman. One meditation a day, 365 of them. Sending 🙏🏼 prayers https://t.co/48LJ3baDdx https://t.co/50VAYX2e6I
Paperback, 1994
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”—Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man,” by James Joyce https://t.co/AomEp599ux
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Illustrated: Young Man
James Joyce
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”—Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man,” by James Joyce https://t.co/AomEp599ux
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The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
“What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.” — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 1967 https://t.co/WYzXRjsEqu
Paperback, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Mark Felt
On the 50th anniv of Watergate, I’m honored to have spearheaded the 2005 @VanityFair exclusive, by John O’Connor, in which revealed a 33-yr-old secret: that “Deep Throat”—the confidential source for the @washingtonpost—had been none other than the FBI’s Mark Felt https://t.co/mAjvowet5O
Paperback, 2017
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Col Choat
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”—Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man,” by James Joyce https://t.co/AomEp599ux
Paperback, 2018
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Haywire: A Memoir
Brooke Hayward
Rollicking review of Mark Rozzo’s book on 1960s LA & the collision of art, film, & rock through the prism of the marriage-gone-haywire of Dennis Hopper & Brooke Hayward & their counterculture clique https://t.co/sthsey1xr8
Paperback, 2011
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House
Chris Whipple
Man of the Hour. Chris Whipple at NYC book party for his great new Biden Admin tome “The Fight of His Life” @ccwhip @ScribnerBooks @WHCOS https://t.co/dqvxPR76XD
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Historical, Literature) [Annotated], James Joyce](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9798512270295.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1743332208)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Historical, Literature) [Annotated]
James Joyce
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”—Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man,” by James Joyce https://t.co/AomEp599ux
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1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell
George Orwell, from “1984,” speaks volumes about America’s current totalitarian drift on the far-right. (Cited in Louis Menand’s “The Free World”) https://t.co/x5b0iQI9gZ
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book