Peter Lattman 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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Peter Lattman is the managing director of media at Emerson Collective. managing director of media, Emerson Collective; vice chairman, The Atlantic; formerly NYT, WSJ. Married to @isabelgillies.

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Dan Read
“Very few books endure; hardly any get proper notice; but Dan wanted books that deserved to be read a year after they came out, or a decade, or longer.” @jamesfallows with a lovely remembrance of his book editor Dan Frank. https://t.co/CZo6LbV5H0
Paperback, 2014
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Lake Success
Gary Shteyngart
Best profile of a Wall Street guy I’ve read in some time, by @Shteyngart. Can’t wait for “Lake Success,” his novel on a hedge fund tycoon coming out in fall. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/a-sidelined-wall-street-legend-bets-on-bitcoin
Paperback, 2019
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Orange
B. G. Thomas
In-box: Random House eliminating Spiegel & Grau imprint as Ms. Spiegel and Ms. Grau leave. They’ve published “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates”; “Just Mercy,” by Bryan Stevenson; “Orange is the New Black,” by Piper Kerman; “Born a Crime,” by Trevor Noah.
Paperback, 2018
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Jessica Bruder
The Atlantic’s May 2022 cover story, by @jessbruder, author of the book “Nomadland,” on the abortion underground — and here we are. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/roe-v-wade-overturn-abortion-rights/629366/
Paperback, 2018
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber
Excellent review by @WDeresiewicz of "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity," by David Graeber and @DavidWengrow. (The book is ranked No. 8 on Amazon though it doesn't come out for three weeks.) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history-humanity/620177/
Paperback, 2023
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Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Charles Yu
Congratulations to @charles_yu on winning the National Book Award for fiction for "Interior Chinatown." Here's an essay by Yu that ran in The Atlantic back in April. https://t.co/U0HAu1oXFS
Paperback, 2020
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The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
Happy Publication Day to the great Yiyun Li. "The Book of Goose" is fiction at its best. Check out this rave by @meganeogrady, who calls Li "one of our finest living authors" and her new book "the most propulsively entertaining of Li's novels." https://t.co/5fNh0x4tTe
Paperback, 2023
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The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right
Adam Harris
A “must-read,” “Harris’s writing is as refreshing as it is haunting.” Excellent review of “The State Must Provide,” the new book by The Atlantic’s @AdamHSays. (And long live the print edition of the NYT Book Review.) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/books/review/state-must-provide-adam-harris.html
Hardcover, 2021
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong
"'An Immense World,' @edyong209's new book about animal senses, speaks to his exceptional gifts as a storyteller." Terrific review by @jenszalai https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/22/books/review-immense-world-animal-senses-ed-yong.html
Paperback, 2023
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Chronicles: Volume One
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan on Harry Belafonte, from “Chronicles” (2 of 2) https://t.co/8gMClz4a1u
Paperback, 2005
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