Isaac Butler (he/him) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Isaac Butler is a writer. Author of THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT, winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Easiest contact = DMs
August Wilson: A Life
Patti HartiganIsaac Butler (he/him)With painstaking research, stylistic verve, and an eye both admiring and exacting, Ms. Hartigan has pieced together the man behind the 20th Century Cycle, bringing Wilson to furious, complicated life.
Hardcover, 2023
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Money: A Suicide Note (Penguin Ink)
Martin AmisIsaac Butler (he/him)@TheLincoln @pronounced_ing @AriannaRebolini Martin Amis is a minor character in his novel Money, IIRC.
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Just City
Jo WaltonIsaac Butler (he/him)@katiesisneros @nyrbclassics Also this is very flattering. Have you read Jo Walton’s THE JUST CITY? I’m reading it now and bet it’ll be up your alley
Paperback, 2015
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The Italian Girl
James SaundersIsaac Butler (he/him)THE ITALIAN GIRL by Iris Murdoch moves from Gothic to Farce to Horror to Shakespearean Romance but unlike in The Sea The Sea it never quite comes together. A misfire, but Murdoch is so good it has its interesting parts. https://t.co/8pAkW01hZX
Paperback, 2015
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Warlock
Oakley HallIsaac Butler (he/him)Oakley Hall’s WARLOCK for fiction https://t.co/v6DTAh0XaF
Paperback, 2005
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A Strange Loop
Michael R. JacksonIsaac Butler (he/him)RT @FeldmanAdam: GREAT NEWS: Michael R. Jackson's brilliant musical A Strange Loop will officially open on Broadway this spring at the Lyce…
Paperback, 2021
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In a Lonely Place
Dorothy B. HughesIsaac Butler (he/him)In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes— a portrait of a serial killer that is as shocking as anything by Highsmith Fear by Gabriel Chevalier— a “novel” of Chevalier’s World War One service that demystifies every cliche about wartime honor
Paperback, 2017
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When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamin LabatutIsaac Butler (he/him)The premise of this piece is inaccurate. When We Cease to Understand the World received a rave in the Times, and one of the linked reviews is overwhelming positive: https://t.co/OmepTapMIu
Paperback, 2021
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Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar: Screenplay
Geoffrey BoyerIsaac Butler (he/him)BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR (2021, Dir: Josh Greenbaum) has the anarchic pleasures of two imaginative kids playing with a tub full of mixed up action figures, following their imagination wherever it wants to. Barb and Star should host the Oscars. https://t.co/mGkd5ubcdH
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Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Jonathan BateIsaac Butler (he/him)This thread is already too long, so just read the second chapter of Jonathan Bate's SOUL OF THE AGE for a summary of what that Latin education was like and where you can see it in the plays.
Paperback, 2010
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