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Peter Lattman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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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Frank.

Dan Read
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

“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

$6.63$3.32 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Lake Success

Gary Shteyngart
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

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
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

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

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Jessica Bruder
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

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

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

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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Book Cover for: Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner), Charles Yu

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

Charles Yu
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

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
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

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

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right, Adam Harris

The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right

Adam Harris
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

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

$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

"'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
Peter LattmanPeter Lattman

Bob Dylan on Harry Belafonte, from “Chronicles” (2 of 2) https://t.co/8gMClz4a1u

Paperback, 2005

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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