Jonny Diamond Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jonny Diamond

I devoured the stories of Thomas Mann in my twenties; sadly (joyously?) that represents a long enough gap in years that I may truly be able to discover them anew in this fresh translation by the brilliant Damion Searls. “Death in Venice” as if for the first time? Yes please.

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The story of one man’s efforts to bring healthcare to Boston’s unhoused population, along with compassion, kindness, and humanity. I wish we didn’t need the Jim O’Connell’s of the world, but I’m glad we have them.

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I am an idiot for not seeing sooner the direct line between my love of Benjamin Labatut’s WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD and Danielle Dutton’s brilliant MARGARET THE FIRST. An idiot! (And dare I say that Dutton’s is a contemporary American novel of ideas?)

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If you delight in a first-hand look at how any given group of people will devolve into brutal hierarchies based in strength and power (however you define it), Lord of the Flies is a true classic of the genre.

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Eco-philosopher Godfrey-Smith is here to help us reconceptualize our place on Earth... In examining all manner of life—from gorillas to coral reefs—and how its many parts make a single whole, Godfrey-Smith seeks to catalyze a radical shift in human perspective, before it’s too late.

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If you haven’t yet, read this Merritt Tierce essay (and her brilliant novel, Love Me Back) https://t.co/AGyb399gF7

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@_ChrisDeWeese Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale has some of the best writing about snow and ice and all things cold

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I am an idiot for not seeing sooner the direct line between my love of Benjamin Labatut’s WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD and Danielle Dutton’s brilliant MARGARET THE FIRST. An idiot! (And dare I say that Dutton’s is a contemporary American novel of ideas?)

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The newest poem among these five, “No War,” is very powerful. https://lithub.com/war-shortens-the-distance-from-person-to-person-from-birth-to-death-new-work-by-ukrainian-poet-halyna-kruk/