Jarrett Walker 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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Public transit planning and policy consultant (https://t.co/ZoczdeljM9), author of the book Human Transit. Former literature scholar. Often looks at plants.
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley RobinsonJarrett WalkerBeautiful profile of one of my favorite living writers, Kim Stanley Robinson. I’m currently rereading his alternative-history masterpiece The Years of Rice and Salt, which imagines the last 700 years of history if almost all Europeans had been killed by the Plague. https://t.co/K4KEQhgjq5
Paperback, Mass Market, 2003
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The Satanic Verses
Salman RushdieJarrett WalkerTempted to buy a Salman Rushdie book? Note: The Satanic Verses is not the right place to start reading Rushdie. It's dense and allusive and the sort of book you enjoy after reading lots of his others. 1/
Paperback, 2008
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving
Peter NortonJarrett WalkerI have a review in the works, but meanwhile, buy @PeterNorton12's books. He's the most important US transport historian right now. "Autonorama" is a fun read about how techno-futurism about cars is an old idea that's been around 3 times before ... 1/
Hardcover, 2021
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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Angélica GorodischerJarrett WalkerFinally, I can't rave enough about Kalpa Imperial, a very wise set of linked stories of an imaginary, infinite empire, by Argentina's Angélica Gorodischer, who left us this year. Gorgeous prose in Spanish, but @ursulakleguin did an OK translation. 7/7 https://t.co/fSTGLbHiiZ
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Walkable City
Jeff SpeckJarrett WalkerWalkability guru Jeff Speck (@JeffSpeckFAICP) has just released a new edition of his classic book Walkable City. Good piece: https://t.co/8VNnKShIuX
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Hamlet
W. ShakespeareJarrett Walker@Ada_Palmer @JamesStokesLX Your books remind me of Shakespeare's Hamlet, JC and A&C, in that the shared elite status of the main characters is what makes such intense introspection possible. Without a Falstaffian "low plot," there's nobody to puncture their heroic bubble. ...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia MarquezJarrett WalkerReread Garcia Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude -- in Spanish this time, but the Gregory Rabassa translation is fine too. A good place to start exploring Latin American fiction and history. Both funny and transcendent. 2/ https://t.co/eKWpS4YJw5
Paperback, 2006
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. KuangJarrett Walker@nhannahjones R. F. Kuang's Babel is something you'd like, I think.
Paperback, 2023
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Piranesi
Susanna ClarkeJarrett WalkerDiscovered Susanna Clarke's wonderful short novel Piranesi. Especially fine if you love architecture, sculpture, spatial thinking. "The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite." https://t.co/CXwCGSaGA5 5/
Paperback, 2021
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?
Pete DysonJarrett WalkerMy review of the new @pete_dyson and @rorysutherland book, "Transport for Humans" https://humantransit.org/2022/05/can-we-just-make-the-train-feel-faster.html
Paperback, 2021
$22.50Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)