Jon Christensen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jon Christensen

After reading Michael Lewis’s The Premonition about the US response to COVID, I read @johnmbarry’s The Great Influenza. Ho lee shit y’all. He wrote down the exact sequence of Covid events in 2005. Down to minute details. Too bad more officials didn’t read it.

Jon Christensen

@pkedrosky You read Heather Hansman's Powder Days yet? Not a primary source of information which I know you like, but definitely entertaining. It looks at skiing from the point of view of what being a ski bum even means, whether it was ever fair or real, and whether it can continue.

Jon Christensen

Just reading book 2 of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem trilogy. Absolutely incredible. So thoughtful and creative.

Jon Christensen

I wrote about the 7 Powers from Hamilton Helmer and put them in the context of fintech and credit card payments. Fun to write, but I couldn't help myself. I had to take a swipe at one of them (credit card pun not intended). https://t.co/eNOU0OXNYt

Jon Christensen

The drugged out fucked up experience of Euphoria feels like a modern take on @IrvineWelsh or @BretEastonEllis or even Martin Amis. What next generation of writers are writing like this?

Jon Christensen

I started following @dankois after reading his excellent family travel memoir How to Be A Family, and it was the best decision. You should read his new masterpiece of film criticism. https://twitter.com/dankois/status/1530171435850907648