Kaitlin Phillips 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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Kaitlin Phillips is a publicist and writer. "She’s one of those New York characters like Al Sharpton" - NYTIMES "Downtown Svengali" - NYPOST "Unshy" - NEW YORKER
The English Understand Wool
Helen DeWittKaitlin PhillipsI read the rest of Helen Dewitt this weekend (Some Trick, The English Understand Wool) and it is absolutely hilarious how all of her books are just about how predatory, parasitic, & patronizing the book industry is... No one detests literary agents w/ more fervor.
Hardcover, 2022
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
Paul FussellKaitlin Phillips[A] classic of the genre... The book is a romp, and functions as something of an insider’s guide to recognizing granular details that separate the rich from the really rich from the tacky rich.
Paperback, 1992
$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Some Trick
Helen DeWittKaitlin PhillipsI read the rest of Helen Dewitt this weekend (Some Trick, The English Understand Wool) and it is absolutely hilarious how all of her books are just about how predatory, parasitic, & patronizing the book industry is... No one detests literary agents w/ more fervor.
Paperback, 2019
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
W. David MarxKaitlin PhillipsIn his effort to cover everything—from conventions to signaling to complex questions of identity, counterculture and race—the author’s thesis gets lost … Marx is most convincing when addressing the perennial question of whether money can, in fact, buy class...
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Guest
Emma ClineKaitlin Phillips“The last thing I read that I loved was the new Emma Cline novel The Guest…it’s tight as fuck with no spare word, leaves you breathless, you’ll finish in a day.” https://t.co/QTLDFcGAHo
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Torn Skirt
Rebecca GodfreyKaitlin Phillips"I blurbed The Torn Skirt when it was published in 2001, calling it a 'hot book,' by which I meant like a hot hot hot diary entry." https://t.co/6UQiqgucod
Paperback, 2013
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book