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

Matrix
Lauren Groff
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
Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag
@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
The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
Gal Beckerman
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
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
@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
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
@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
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Brian Merchant
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
Swimming Back to Trout River
Linda Rui Feng
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
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism
Kyle Chayka
My book on minimalism is out in Spain today! The Longing for Less -> Desear Menos https://twitter.com/gediciones/status/1485590416477069313
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On Freedom
Maggie Nelson
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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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
@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