James Sullivan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
James Sullivan on XJames Sullivan is an author, Boston Globe contributor and freelance journalist Books: comedy, music, sports, pants. @BostonGlobe arts and features. Program Director, @nbptdocufest. Journalism dep't, @EmersonCollege.

The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969 - 73
Allan KozinnA compulsively readable (for Beatlemaniacs, at any rate) blow-by-blow account of McCartney’s final days in the world’s most astonishingly creative rock ’n’ roll band and his willful determination to make a go of it out on his own... It’s a welcome portrait of a complicated man...
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Housekeeping: A Novel (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)
Marilynne Robinson“I have observed that, in the way people are strange, they grow stranger” — Marilynne Robinson, “Housekeeping”
Paperback, 2020
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crud: Dicks Don't Come Any Dirtier.
Robert MacLeanNot sure if it was the page-one memory of “listening to the stinking Red Sox on the radio” or the mention of his first band, “a blues band called Crud.” But I’m 25 pages and all-in on John Lurie’s new memoir. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561234/the-history-of-bones-by-john-lurie/
Paperback, 2022
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Red Sox
Isaac Ekow AnyidohoNot sure if it was the page-one memory of “listening to the stinking Red Sox on the radio” or the mention of his first band, “a blues band called Crud.” But I’m 25 pages and all-in on John Lurie’s new memoir. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561234/the-history-of-bones-by-john-lurie/
Paperback, 2013
$18.68Member price:$9.34 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to ACT
Isaac ButlerDILLA TIME, STAY TRUE, and also Isaac Butler’s THE METHOD: 2022 was a great year for books up my alley https://t.co/IHnXIXyamT
Paperback, 2023
$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art
Charlie English@CharlieEnglish1 Just finished "Gallery of Miracles and Madness." Tore through it. Great work.
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