kang 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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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
David Simon
@BobbyBigWheel listen he can be in it too. We need the David Simon Baltimore Cop Universe including Homicide, the Corner, the Wire and We Own this City. DSBCU
Paperback, 2006
$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession
Ander Monson
Reading Predator sometimes felt like reading a tweet thread from the most annoying white people on Twitterâthe type who feel the need to very loudly condemn and apologize for their backward brethren. And yet, against all odds, Monson pulls this off.
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
Utterly shocked that pickleball players would use the logic of disaster capitalism to get their way. True Milton Friedman shit here; this is why Naomi Klein wrote the Shock Doctrine. To warn everyone against this type of craven nonsense. https://t.co/Qs4zW9kckE
Paperback, 2008
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
Wrote about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the concept of âquality,â American literary seekers, and a new collection of Robert Pirsigâs writings. https://t.co/6UG91O6GxQ
Paperback, 2008
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Malcolm Harris
New @ttsgpod. Me and @BigMeanInternet talk about his new book - PALO ALTO - my trip to the train museum in Sacramento, the haunting of Palo Alto and some fun writing stuff in there as well. https://t.co/3LVbdA1LnE
Hardcover, 2023
$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ucla: The First Century
Marina Dundjerski
UCLA. Great institution of public learning. Everyone Iâve met who went there is super cool and smart and diverse. Class program. I expect them to win by about 15 tonight. They just have too much talent for the Heels. Congrats to all Bruins fans.
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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Neil Strauss
For Hsieh, it was promoting a book about happiness and company culture that was supposedly based on silly academic psychology stuff about how to truly be happy but was also based a lot on Neil Straussâs the Game and pickup artist culture. https://t.co/ujApftSHgW
Hardcover, 2005
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
OlĂșfẹ́mi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
Had a long convo with @OlufemiOTaiwo about his new book, âElite Capture: how the powerful took over identity politics.â We talk about a lot - heâs one of the thinkers who blew me away when I first read his work.
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
David Simon
@BobbyBigWheel listen he can be in it too. We need the David Simon Baltimore Cop Universe including Homicide, the Corner, the Wire and We Own this City. DSBCU
Paperback, 1998
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Loneliest Americans
Jay Caspian Kang
THE LONELIEST AMERICANS is out in paperback today! Read the book that prompted one of the funniest and bizarre backlashes of the past year and the book that made New York Magazine so mad that it wrote ~7000 words this year slandering me as a human. https://t.co/Ed8et05jA7
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book