Jeff Melnick 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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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
Jesse McCarthyJeff MelnickPrepping for tomorrow's class by listening to our 14-song trap playlist, thinking about Jesse McCarthy's "Notes on Trap"--one of those rare essays that made me reconsider all my priors. Just astonishing.
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dancer from the Dance
Andrew HolleranJeff Melnick@varsha_venkat_ Andrew Holleran’s disco novel, Dancer from the Dance
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tapped Out: Water: The Coming World Crisis and What We Can Do About It
Paul SimonJeff Melnick@MaraLeeGrayson Moby: "Oversized mug of mediocre milky tea." (My daughter when she was a young teenager actually said something similar about Paul Simon's voice--"It's like if you dropped some milk in to a glass of water.")
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
Maxine Hong KingstonJeff Melnick@MLevantovskaya Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey is my fave novel ever
Paperback, 1990
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Mary OttoJeff Melnick@ThatJBF @AmyClukey I don't remember if Mary Otto's great book Teeth takes this question up directly but she sure has some fascinating material on the class/teeth nexus
Paperback, 2019
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dorchester Day
James H. StarkJeff MelnickFinally got myself a copy of Eugene Richard’s Dorchester Days. Amazing book, utterly haunting cover image https://t.co/cdSB77bWYk
Paperback, 2019
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The Professors House by Willa Cather: Professor's
Willa CatherJeff Melnick@jeffreynparker @smithhemb And my favorite novel of all: Willa Cather’s Professor’s House
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The Professor's House
Willa CatherJeff Melnick@jjkamensky @varsha_venkat_ You reminded me of Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House, my second fave novel of all time
Paperback, 2012
$10.97$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' on
Miles Marshall LewisJeff MelnickThe amazing Scottish group Young Fathers seem to take off from the principle that Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On just wasn’t dark enough
Paperback, 2006
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture
Andrew RossJeff MelnickObviously all the mid-20th century and beyond stuff about "hip" anatomized so well by Andrew Ross in No Respect
Paperback, 1989
$54.95$29.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)