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Kyle Chayka 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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Kyle Chayka is a digital culture writer. staff writer @newyorker; second book, FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, coming @doubleday January 2024; newsletter: https://t.co/iELTxgVFJV

15 books
Book Cover for: Matrix, Lauren Groff

Matrix

Lauren Groff
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

in today's @dirtxyz I recommended Lauren Groff’s new novel Matrix as Redwall for adults https://t.co/mTsPvZLB8X

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag

Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

@NewYorker Susan Sontag’s “Regarding the Pain of Others” is the best guide to photojournalism. The war content on social media is just another step from iconic film photos to video to cable TV coverage — now war documentation is ambient memes shot on phones by its participants https://t.co/88aJvI9O50

Paperback, 2004

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas, Gal Beckerman

The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas

Gal Beckerman
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

Enjoyed reading @galbeckerman’s new book THE QUIET BEFORE, really evocative intellectual history and fun historical storytelling https://t.co/u28XqQWI9D

Hardcover, 2022

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

@packyM https://t.co/UJptFPDAM7 The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Paperback, 2021

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar

Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

@vauhinivara The end of Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian where she explains her process is pretty epic, fiction but very factual still

Paperback, 2005

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, Brian Merchant

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

Brian Merchant
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

Merchant... argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers above the inequitable profitability of machines. The book is a historical reconsideration of the movement and a gripping narrative of political resistance told in short vignettes.

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Swimming Back to Trout River, Linda Rui Feng

Swimming Back to Trout River

Linda Rui Feng
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

RT @CarolineMEisen: Happy publication day to Linda Rui Feng's gorgeous debut SWIMMING BACK TO TROUT RIVER, a novel full of beauty and wonde…

Paperback, 2022

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, Kyle Chayka

The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism

Kyle Chayka
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

My book on minimalism is out in Spain today! The Longing for Less -> Desear Menos https://twitter.com/gediciones/status/1485590416477069313

Out of stock

Book Cover for: On Freedom, Maggie Nelson

On Freedom

Maggie Nelson
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

RT @JenLouiseWilson: For @thenation I reviewed Maggie Nelson's On Freedom, a fearful, reductive book that takes our conversations about lib…

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Book Cover for: Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney
Kyle ChaykaKyle Chayka

@dancohen the new Sally Rooney novel when it comes out, Beautiful World Where Are You

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book