Matthew Sitman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@KevinReuning @KnowYrEnemyPod @SamAdlerBell Christopher Lasch, PLAIN STYLE

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Gore Vidal on turning 50, from Michael Mewshaw’s (excellent) memoir of their friendship, Sympathy for the Devil https://t.co/dx4IH6coh1

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Norman Maclean (A River Runs Through It) and certain parts of Marilynne Robinson's Gilead https://t.co/xczKyKm1fC

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@likaluca Have you ever checked out Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book? Not a midlife crisis book per se, but one of my all-time favorites

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A poem for today, Mark Strand's "The Good Life": The good life gives no warning. It weathers the climates of despair and appears, on foot, unrecognized, offering nothing, and you are there. Read it all: https://t.co/2vLIjHM9Nk

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Another book interview I remember doing this with was Michelle Nickerson's Mothers of Conservatism, and her answer about studying the right in grad school in the 90s was really interesting

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Have any of my friends read Isherwood's The World in the Evening? It's one of the few of his I haven't gotten to you yet, but I started it recently and think it's *easily* the worst novel of his I've read. I'd been resisting it precisely bc I feared this

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Our texts for this episode were Josh Hawley's new book, MANHOOD, and Harvey Mansfield's MANLINESS (2006) https://t.co/hoW9t9beVo

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Have you listened to the latest @KnowYrEnemyPod on BOB DYLAN and The Philosophy of Modern Song? https://t.co/30yLxoaTT5 https://t.co/EYSg4VuKZv

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I didn't get to mention him in the piece, but I thought of my old teacher, the late George W. Carey a lot while writing this. He taught me the Federalist Papers, talked to me about Willmoore Kendall for hours, and looked out for me as a young grad student https://t.co/by3dWci0pf