Jody Rosen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jody Rosen

@matthewshaer It's not journalism (far from) but I'd make a case for Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography. (List is Brit-deficient.) Also Lauren Redniss' Thunder & Lightning or Oak Flat—I have rooting interest there but she's an amazing writer/reporter who's invented a new kind of nonfiction.

Jody Rosen

@matthewshaer It's not journalism (far from) but I'd make a case for Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography. (List is Brit-deficient.) Also Lauren Redniss' Thunder & Lightning or Oak Flat—I have rooting interest there but she's an amazing writer/reporter who's invented a new kind of nonfiction.

Jody Rosen

@Dorianlynskey Adrienne Mayor, Gods and Robots; Dustin Abnet, The American Robot: A Cultural History

Jody Rosen

RIP Wolfgang Schivelbusch, a truly great cultural historian. Check out The Railway Journey or Disenchanted Night, they’re amazing. https://t.co/FdScn264TU

Jody Rosen

@matthewshaer It's not journalism (far from) but I'd make a case for Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography. (List is Brit-deficient.) Also Lauren Redniss' Thunder & Lightning or Oak Flat—I have rooting interest there but she's an amazing writer/reporter who's invented a new kind of nonfiction.

Jody Rosen

This isn't nearly as egregious/unethical as Ian Urbina's alleged music scam. But has anyone else been struck by the similarities between William Langewiesche's The Outlaw Sea (2004), one of the great nonfiction books of this century, & Urbina's The Outlaw Ocean (2019)? https://t.co/KKKg2B5X0b

Jody Rosen

A few years ago I read Annette Kolodny’s “In Search of First Contact,” which recovers Native stories of first contact, passed down orally for a millennium. These stories date the arrival of the Vikings to same time/place scientists have now “pinned down.” There’s a lesson here. https://t.co/uwT0inrYbJ

Jody Rosen

This isn't nearly as egregious/unethical as Ian Urbina's alleged music scam. But has anyone else been struck by the similarities between William Langewiesche's The Outlaw Sea (2004), one of the great nonfiction books of this century, & Urbina's The Outlaw Ocean (2019)? https://t.co/KKKg2B5X0b

Jody Rosen

The book is an important work, a tome that merits a place on your loftiest library shelf, up in the thin air where you keep the leather-bound, gilt-edged stuff ... As a work of prose, is relentless. It rip-snorts along, charging from song to song, idea to idea.

Jody Rosen

My book Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle is on the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 list. (There are like 100 other books on the list, too. But still.) https://t.co/Q2rFFnxecn