Jack Iwashyna🫁 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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After Sappho
Selby Wynn SchwartzJack Iwashyna🫁Selby Wynn Schwartz’s #AfterSappho is somehow a page turner (I started it yesterday), elegiac, intellectual, beautiful, quite funny, structurally daring, all at once. An amazing novel https://t.co/ZYG0jcmdba
Paperback, 2024
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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Janet MalcolmJack Iwashyna🫁“The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties. “Almost everything we know we know incompletely at best” - Janet Malcolm (2007) Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Paperback, 2008
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Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore
Lawrence JacksonJack Iwashyna🫁I finished Lawrence Jackson’s Shelter a bit ago, but as I putter around my house and my new city, I am struck by how often it comes back to me in conversation with what I am seeing Strongly recommended, with caveat it is a book that makes some demands of its readers https://t.co/MAeiCsfPNj
Paperback, 2022
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Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude
Stephanie RosenbloomJack Iwashyna🫁Stephanie Rosenbloom’s Alone Time is very good—already earned its place next to Solnit and @RobGMacfarlane in books I love on travel as microexploration yet also maybe philosophy of life https://t.co/78XV5AEHqj
Paperback, 2019
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The Live and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 3: The Civil War
Frederick DouglassJack Iwashyna🫁Maryland’s own Frederick Douglass on “both sides” of the Civil War https://t.co/vztXsChtV0
Paperback, 2020
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Rosewater
Tade ThompsonJack Iwashyna🫁I stumbled across Tade Thompson’s novel from last year; I love his Rosewater trilogy Could spend months contemplating this management philosophy—“You can adjust for weaknesses, but no adjustment will bring strength where there is none. At most, you get mediocrity” https://t.co/rd5e5kDLOw
Paperback, 2018
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The Cabinet
Un-Su KimJack Iwashyna🫁An interstitial chapter, only 4 pages long, from Un-Su Kim’s The Cabinet, about priorities https://t.co/sTjYxRC3zP
Paperback, 2021
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