Neil King 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, journalist. DC resident, Colo. native. Author of American Ramble, about my saunter to Manhattan in 2021. https://t.co/0spszlbtd3. Founder of @GothamCanoe.
American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
Neil KingNeil KingAn excerpt from my book #AmericanRamble in anticipation of a whole segment devoted to the walk and the book on this week's @CBSSunday. Viewing party anyone? https://t.co/qzLmuZ4JXh
Paperback, 2024
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Walking
Henry David ThoreauNeil King"When walking over multiple days or weeks, you begin to see why the journals of slow travelers like Thomas Jefferson or Henry David Thoreau or John Muir abound with startling, tiny details, the sort of things few would ever notice now."
Paperback, 2019
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Legends of the Fall
Jim HarrisonNeil King"Nothing is quite so grotesque as the meeting of a child and a bullet," Jim Harrison wrote in Legends of the Fall. "We would like to think that the whole starry universe would curdle at such a monstrosity." And yet, as we know, it doesn't.
Paperback, 2016
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Ulysses
James JoyceNeil King"Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquility sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms." James Joyce, Ulysses
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Walking
Henry David ThoreauNeil King"When walking over multiple days or weeks, you begin to see why the journals of slow travelers like Thomas Jefferson or Henry David Thoreau or John Muir abound with startling, tiny details, the sort of things few would ever notice now."
Paperback, 2010
$6.97$3.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
Evan S. ConnellNeil KingOne reporter accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry to Little Bighorn that June of 1876: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg. He died in the grass with all the others. Evan S. Connell in his masterpiece, Son of the Morning Star, offers this brutal portrait of the scribe. https://t.co/NzByETfkz9
Paperback, 1997
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Experience: A Memoir
Martin AmisNeil King"What makes you a writer? You develop an extra sense that partly excludes you from experience. When writers experience things, they’re not really experiencing them anything like a hundred percent." Great interview with Martin Amis. https://t.co/Mn0kYBY3hC
Paperback, 2001
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The Life and Wrightings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 1: Early Years
Frederick DouglassNeil KingA friend of mine has a fantastic new book out that brings to vivid life the early years of Frederick Douglass in Talbot County MD. This is my appreciation of Jeff McGuiness’s labor of love. https://t.co/uctnMghet9
Paperback, 2020
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Ulysses: Second Edition
James JoyceNeil King"Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquility sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms." James Joyce, Ulysses
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
Ben RatliffNeil KingToss all the rest aside and read this. A tour de force of cultural journalism by Ben Ratliff. John Coltrane and the essence of 1961 https://t.co/pt4GxAkEjO
Paperback, 2008
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