jo livingstone Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I wrote about Lauren Berlant’s posthumous publication, On the Inconvenience of Other People, for @4_columns. Reading it is like watching an autopsy performed on a bee. Very fiddly, but cool. https://t.co/EqNbCueEPj

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It’s my absolute delight to have written about @thehighsign’s book about Buster Keaton, another, straighter biography by James Curtis, and the curious return of Keaton’s stylings to TikTok etc https://t.co/PTEUGf9C7g

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Louise Erdrich releases her first novel since her 2020 Pulitzer win on Nov 3! I reviewed THE SENTENCE for TNR. https://newrepublic.com/article/164199/haunting-louise-erdrich-sentence-book-review?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=EB_TNR&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1635454677

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Of all the books published in 2022, I gave only one to my optometrist [Dr. Cheng on Myrtle, best independent eyeball spot in Bk] https://t.co/80Cc88ed3k

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This is a couple of years old but if you ever want stats on how publishing/exhibiting/enjoying diverse art does not lead to increased diversity in those workplaces, "Entitled: Discriminating tastes and the expansion of the arts" by Jennifer C. Lena got em https://t.co/S2l32K4Tge

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@JenLouiseWilson a genre one but there is actually a not-old John Grisham novel about law school debt called The Rooster Bar

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There are two OTHER great books by women about the culture and science of the deep sea out soon: BELOW THE EDGE OF DARKNESS by Edith Widder and Cynthia Barnett’s THE SOUND OF THE SEA: SEASHELLS AND THE FATE OF THE OCEANS

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For example—do NOT allow his extraordinary book “Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side” to pass you by. https://t.co/Rkln2u5oB6

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I once said on here there was nothing good to read on why feudalism was not real ever but that’s not true. Read: Periodization and Sovereignty How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time by Kathleen Davis Fiefs and Vassals by Susan Reynolds

jo livingstone

I once said on here there was nothing good to read on why feudalism was not real ever but that’s not true. Read: Periodization and Sovereignty How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time by Kathleen Davis Fiefs and Vassals by Susan Reynolds