Kara Swisher Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Kara Swisher

Chrysta Bilton is the author of this amazing book, called Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings, a memoir of her unconventional childhood and her revelation that her father was a prolific sperm donor. ... I loved the book. It's fantastic.

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Anyway, this is a really wonderful book and you are a really wonderful writer. I think that's the best part of it. ... it's a really fun and easy read and also full of just really vivid writing. ... I think a lot of people should pick it up.

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Fascinating... really interesting.

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In her new memoir, she recounts her long career in journalism, including her time as the public editor of the New York Times.

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My mini review of Musk bio: Sad & smart son slowly morphs into mentally abusive father he abhors except with rockets, cars & more money. Often right, sometimes wrong, petty jerk always. Might be crazy in good way, but also a bad way. Pile o’ babies. Not Steve Jobs. You’re…

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Only $20m? I’ll be more impressed when it’s not just the change in Thiel’s couch for a startup: Vivek Ramaswamy, who wrote a book called “Woke, Inc.,” has started a fund manager that would urge companies not to wade into social or environmental issues https://www.wsj.com/articles/upstart-money-manager-gets-billionaires-to-back-the-anti-blackrock-11652134919

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Creators like ⁦@waltmossberg⁩ and I have one credo: Thank you; next. Better said by Tom Stoppard in “Arcadia”: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind … https://t.co/Q8vywyelNp

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@tobyredshaw I think they were a lot more culpable than you think. Read Hitler’s Willing Executioners Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust https://t.co/oloWz3WUW4

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This is a perfect done profile by ⁦@rtraister⁩ on ⁦@katiecouric⁩: “Like Couric herself, it is surprisingly spiky and weird and seemingly committed to absolute chaos.” https://www.thecut.com/2021/10/katie-couric-memoir-going-there.html

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Some history: Here is an interesting piece I did in 2016 on David Sacks, who is now one of the leaders at Twitter, in which he apologized calling rape “belated regret” in a book he wrote with Peter Thiel in 1996. Note too $70k to @HillaryClinton campaign