John Phipps 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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John Phipps is a journalist. Contributing Writer @1843magazine. Words also in LARB, FT, GQ, Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, TLS etc. Former Fence Mag fiction ed.
Ulysses
James JoyceJohn PhippsFor this week's @spectator I wrote about the greatest podcast of them all: Ulysses, by James Joyce https://t.co/sxV0IDOr8y
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Tenth of December: Stories
George SaundersJohn PhippsThis is very beautifully observed, I think, about the short stories of George Saunders https://t.co/Yvl04YixSv https://t.co/PEXgVEmqHM
Hardcover, 2019
$29.40$14.70 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Little Drummer Girl
John Le CarréJohn PhippsHis characters spoke a private language that readers were flattered to find they could understand. His plots are both murky and brilliant, like being guided down dark corridors by a faint light coming in and out of view 20 paces up ahead. And all that competence!
Paperback, 2011
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The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
Bart D. EhrmanJohn PhippsAn interesting note further to this: in ‘The New Testament: a Historical Introduction’, Bart Ehrman contextualises the gospels as belonging to a specific *genre* of religious life narrative that would have been recognisable to the authors and their contemporaries https://t.co/lIQsGrbT2t https://t.co/MgrDAhueKi
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Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Norman RushJohn PhippsReading ‘Mating’, by Norman Rush and really wondering why anyone talks about anything else, why everyone isn't always talking about this book, why we have not raised great statues of Rush and/or the unnamed protagonist in our parks and squares etc.
Paperback, 1992
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Ulysses
James JoyceJohn PhippsFor this week's @spectator I wrote about the greatest podcast of them all: Ulysses, by James Joyce https://t.co/sxV0IDOr8y
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Sh*t Literary Siblings
The FenceJohn PhippsDevoted the last 15 years of my life to reading literature so i could help bring you this. Kudos to @CharlieFBBaker1 @shockproofbeats @_F_B_G_ @alexschristian @kf_morris for writing all the jokes but still allowing me to take all the money – incredibly generous lads one and all
Hardcover, 2023
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Bech: A Book
John UpdikeJohn PhippsYou guys hear about this John Updike guy? Wrote a book about a guy called Rabbit. Wrote four of them as it happens. Well I just finished number three and let me tell you: he's really something, this Updike guy. He's more than that even.
Paperback, 1998
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A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
Nikhil KrishnanJohn PhippsJust finished reading Nikhil Krishnan’s exceptionally good, touching, persuasive book on 20th century Oxford philosophy, ‘A Terribly Serious Adventure’, and felt I should repost this amazing video of G A Cohen impersonating Gilbert Ryle https://t.co/9y01ncNgcW
Hardcover, 2023
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The Toilers of the Sea
Victor HugoJohn PhippsHas anyone on here read Victor Hugo's epic novel about life on the channel islands, ‘Toilers of the Sea’, whose existence I first learned about today?
Paperback, 2002
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