Mark Healey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Mark Healey

Excellent piece on mandatory retirement, with an intriguing opening, amazing kicker, and unintentionally amusing cameo by Larry Summers. Bonus points if you can prevent yourself from humming "Wichita Lineman" after reading. https://t.co/Dvj6uu9pBV

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@EdmundRuge Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "The Lettered Barriada" -- and his forthcoming new history of PR.

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@apagliar On women in Peronist Argentina, the best single thing remains Daniel James, Doña María's Story.

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@davidcookmartin Kai Erickson, Everything In Its Path, still a banger. Andy Horowitz, Katrina: A History, is excellent.

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Lovely portrait in the latest UConn magazine of my beloved colleague Frank Costigliola -- with cameos from George Kennan, Fort Lee NJ, and several cows, against the background of his lively farm and his impressive career. https://t.co/1f4E4tlUa5

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@proferachstein Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus is tremendous; Rosalie Knecht’s Vera Kelly novels are great reimagining of the spy novel; Phil Klay’s Missionaries is grimly spectacular.

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@annehelen Respect the full snarkiness of this, though, especially coming from a past contributor to "Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition" https://t.co/L8ntiOPQI3

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@ffreff Adrián Gorelik's article on the idea of the Latin American city in Planning Perspectives; Helen Gyger on Lima; the Latin America chapter in Nancy Kwak's book on aided self-help housing; the Ciudad Bolívar chapter in Amy Offner's Sorting Out the Mixed Economy for Bogotá +

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@ffreff (sorry, meant Ciudad Kennedy there) Austin Zeiderman on Bogotá; @OrlandoDeavilaP on Cartagena; Arlene Dávila on "El Mall"; Eduardo Moncada on violence in urban Colombia

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@atrubek Rosalie Knecht's delightful Vera Kelly mysteries (also from a small publisher, so...); Sergio Olguin's darker but great Veronica Rosenthal trilogy.