Mollie Copley Eisenberg 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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Scholar gone rogue/into public practice. New Yorker in LA. Recently: @USC Mellon Humanities & the U of the Future. PhD from @Princeton, conviction from @CUNY.
Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002
Clive JamesMollie Copley Eisenberg@benlibman Clive James has an absolutely spectacular essay on Raymond Chandler reprinted in Cultural Cohesion. It has the best sidelong articulation of the line between art and entertainment that I've ever heard.
Paperback, 2013
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Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
Julian SymonsMollie Copley Eisenberg@benlibman One more! Merivale & Sweeney's collection "Detecting Texts" on the "postmodern" or "metaphysical" detective story. Oh, and Julian Symons's Bloody Murder. ...I can also just send you my bibliography, lol. I'm truly always delighted to talk detectives.
Hardcover, 1993
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Am I a Snob?
Sean LathamMollie Copley Eisenberg@benlibman Don't sleep on great detective chapters in Sean Latham's Am I a Snob? and Mark McGurl's The Novel Art.
Paperback, 2003
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The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction After Henry James
Mark McGurlMollie Copley Eisenberg@benlibman Don't sleep on great detective chapters in Sean Latham's Am I a Snob? and Mark McGurl's The Novel Art.
Paperback, 2001
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Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction
Stephen KnightMollie Copley Eisenberg@benlibman Lots of good stuff here. Some I haven't seen: Stephen Knight's Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction. Boltanski's Mysteries and Conspiracies. Two collections that have a bunch of the essays here: The Poetics of Murder (Most & Stowe); The Art of the Mystery Story (Haycraft).
Hardcover, 1980
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