L.D. Burnett 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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Writer / historian / writing prof from California's Great Central Valley. Same handle on Post, Substack, Mastodon, etc. Views don't rep my employer, ever.
Home Sweet Home
John Howard PayneL.D. Burnettit’s based on John Howard Payne’s song “Home Sweet Home,” from the 1820s. Has a long history in American cultural life. https://t.co/OFYzHNlrbD
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Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History
Thomas L. HaskellL.D. BurnettThomas Haskell famously wrote, "Objectivity is not neutrality." Unfortunately, people have conflated those two as synonyms. I might restate his basic claim thus: Objectivity is not INDIFFERENCE. Indeed, objectivity is undermined by indifference.
Paperback, 2000
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de Anima: Books II and III (with Passages from Book I)
AristotleL.D. Burnettreading Aristotle's De Anima, as one does
Paperback, 2002
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Spoon River Anthology: Poems and Verse About Rural American Life
Edgar Lee MastersL.D. Burnett"We live in the hour all free of the hours gone by." - Edgar Lee Masters, *Spoon River Anthology* [a just-in-case-Twitter-vanishes tweet]
Paperback, 2018
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Real Life
Brandon TaylorL.D. Burnettthat's Brandon Taylor, prize-winning fiction writer, author of Real Life and Filthy Animals, photographer, critic, artist, Black queer man navigating the world with wit and humor. bullied off Twitter because he expressed amusement at someone else's screenshot of a viral tweet.
Paperback, 2021
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
Tracy DaughertyL.D. BurnettThis is from *The Last Love Song*, Tracy Daugherty's biography of Joan Didion
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The Fame Machine: Book Reviewing and Eighteenth-Century Literary Careers
Frank DonoghueL.D. Burnett@atrubek sooo interesting. look at Frank Donoghue's *The Fame Machine*
Hardcover, 1996
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American Short Fiction
Univ of Texas PressL.D. Burnettfirst writing by James Baldwin I had ever read. In Ken Fields’ “American Short Fiction” class at Stanford. Life-changing. https://t.co/LwlnYanAhJ
Paperback, 1991
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Life of Samuel Johnson ...
James BoswellL.D. BurnettWent to Macleod's Books in Vancouver and picked up a summer read: Boswell's *Life of Samuel Johnson.* Some thoughts here: https://loradawnburnett.medium.com/mess-as-a-marker-of-genius-3405b6600eaa?sk=e01acdffde4bc83a551472d199fad02c #USIH #Literature
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Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower
Jon WienerL.D. BurnettIn the meantime, I highly recommend Jon Wiener's book, Historians in Trouble.
Paperback, 2007
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