Justin Chang 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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Film Critic, @latimes and @nprfreshair | Chair, @NatSocFilmCrix | Secretary, @LAFilmCritics | Programmer, @TheNYFF | Adjunct Instructor, @USCAnnenberg

5 books

Downton Abbey: A New Era: The Official Film Companion

Emma Marriott

Justin Chang

What is a weak end? My review of the irritatingly complacent DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-05-19/downton-abbey-2-review-a-new-era-maggie-smith

Hardcover, 2022

$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar: Screenplay

Geoffrey Boyer

Justin Chang

Still one of the best wins of the season: Steve Saklad, #LAFCA best production design for BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR. And @jenyamato's essay is a beaut: https://t.co/kG2PgJgTCu https://t.co/E4IWs13Dn2 https://t.co/aawM8BiMAP

Out of stock

Dear Mr. Henshaw: A Newbery Award Winner

Beverly Cleary

Justin Chang

A passage from DEAR MR. HENSHAW that's always stuck with me. RIP and thank you Beverly Cleary. https://t.co/mqSh0GvZAW

Paperback, 2000

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

Justin Chang

It was the book I checked out from the library more times than any other; the book that it always pained me to finish...The puns might be for the birds, but truly, they’re for all of us.

Paperback, 1988

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The French Dispatch

Wes Anderson

Justin Chang

Delighted to see one of my favorite critics and human beings in the film pages of the @latimes. From @GuyLodge in Cannes, a marvel of a French dispatch on Wes Anderson’s THE FRENCH DISPATCH: https://t.co/yeovFmnDSZ

Hardcover, 2021

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book