James Surowiecki Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Some weird edits here, but the difference is that RL Stine himself made the edits, which it's his right to do. (Roald Dahl did the same with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when he was alive.) https://t.co/5wnIj1JwB3

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Are we next going to take "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" out of print because of its myriad essentialist, misogynist passages about women?

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Amazon's algorithm in fine fettle today, making Joan Didion's book "Miami" (which is about, yes, Miami) its top-ranked book in the History of Astronomy. https://t.co/6T8OvsWFpL

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Awesome news and an awesome accomplishment by @meghanor, whose new book "The Invisible Kingdom" debuts at #6 on the NYT Bestseller list. It's a great book about chronic illness and the challenges it presents for modern medicine. You should read it. https://t.co/MSL98P5d1u

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@wahoolaw2006 I’m not talking about two yrs ago. I’m talking about right now. Alina Chan’s book “Viral” was published by Harper. This is not an out-there position today.

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This is America, the country of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and schools are banning books that teach kids to be comfortable going their own way. The hell with this nonsense.

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Robert Stone isn't talked about much these days, partly because of what he wrote about and partly because his later work fell off in quality. But very few American writers have produced three books as good as Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, and Outerbridge Reach.

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@JHWeissmann @literaryeric John Locke's preface to "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding": "I will not deny, but possibly it might be reduced to a narrower Compass than it is; and that some Parts of it might be contracted ... But to confess the Truth, I am now too lazy, or too busy to make it shorter."

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Robert Stone isn't talked about much these days, partly because of what he wrote about and partly because his later work fell off in quality. But very few American writers have produced three books as good as Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, and Outerbridge Reach.

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"As I Lay Dying" is Faulkner's third-best novel. This should be "Invisible Man" vs "The Sound and the Fury" or "The Sound and the Fury" vs "Blood Meridian." https://t.co/SYAzrkRmK1