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James Sullivan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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James 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.

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Book Cover for: The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969 - 73, Allan Kozinn

The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969 - 73

Allan Kozinn
James SullivanJames Sullivan

A 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
Book Cover for: Housekeeping: A Novel (Fortieth Anniversary Edition), Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping: A Novel (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)

Marilynne Robinson
James SullivanJames Sullivan

“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
Book Cover for: Crud: Dicks Don't Come Any Dirtier., Robert MacLean

Crud: Dicks Don't Come Any Dirtier.

Robert MacLean
James SullivanJames Sullivan

Not 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
Book Cover for: Red Sox, Isaac Ekow Anyidoho

Red Sox

Isaac Ekow Anyidoho
James SullivanJames Sullivan

Not 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
Book Cover for: The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to ACT, Isaac Butler

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to ACT

Isaac Butler
James SullivanJames Sullivan

DILLA 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
Book Cover for: The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art, Charlie English

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art

Charlie English
James SullivanJames Sullivan

@CharlieEnglish1 Just finished "Gallery of Miracles and Madness." Tore through it. Great work.

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