inverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all along Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
David Simoninverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all along@ByYourLogic @bendreyfuss absolutely. relatedly the fact that SVU and David Simon's Homicide take place in the same universe, with Munsch being the quilting point between the two, kinda underscore how a whole range of liberal attitudes towards police (jaded to lurid, etc) are fully captured by the genre
Paperback, 2006
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthyinverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all alongmost US "post-apocalyptic" fantasies are (1) a projection of disavowed traumas of settler history and (2) a denial of how US comfort is sustained by cataclysms elsewhere. The Road is sequel to Blood Meridian; anxiety dreams in Levittown are underwritten by nightmare in Bhopal
Paperback, 1992
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A Million Quiet Revolutions
Robin Gowinverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all alongRobin Gow (@gow_robin_frank)'s A Million Quiet Revolutions is so many things and I can't do it justice in summary, beyond saying that's alternately gorgeous and devastating, at once so very serious and so light, so full of such hope and love and grace https://t.co/tmHYvjT5H4 https://t.co/3gLAOgrFEc
Paperback, 2023
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Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
Christian Ingraoinverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all along@blandradical @ZachWritesStuff Christian Ingrao's "Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine"
Hardcover, 2013
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From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980
Gerald Horneinverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all along@d_a_salas also gerald horne's "From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980" is very good, and pairs well w/ Burke's TwitterFacebookPrintMore Revolutionaries for the Right Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War"
Paperback, 2001
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Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
Rosa Brooksinverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all alongdelighted to see my review of Rosa Brook's "Tangled Up In Blue" in the June @newrepublic alongside amazing art by @egallagher_art; so grateful as ever to @lmlauramarsh for her superlative editing and for making this possible in the first place https://t.co/PKpYLR3hce
Paperback, 2022
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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumasinverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all alongfirst off Alexandre Dumas should never have been allowed to write The Three Musketeers because he was only ever just one (1) guy. but then, get this, that PIECE OF SHIT went and one upped himself by, you guessed it, that's right
Paperback, 2017
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
Bill Brysoninverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all along@BCDreyer for reasons that are neither here nor there this sits in my brain alongside the factoid that Bill Cosby is a collector of colonial furniture, and spent decades cornering the market on a variety of shaker chairs. The More You Know. anyway yes good morning
Paperback, 2001
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What If: Song Book
Robert W. Blakeinverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all alongwhat if Betty White dodged the slap and produced an FIE Titan from a Quarles-esque sleeve rig but it misfired, the .25 ACP slug mozambiquing Robert Blake just when he was to receive a lifetime achievement award from Roman Polanski and then detonating Harvey Weinsteins oxygen tank
Paperback, 2014
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardyinverted vibe curve: we were burgertown all alonghard to imagine a more lovely way to spend four weeks than reading Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D’Urbervilles" with the incomparable @xtinesmallwood of the @BklynInstitute! runs 4/12 - 5/3 https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/new-york/thomas-hardy-literature-sex-and-scandal/
Hardcover, 2020
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