Philip Gourevitch 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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Philip Gourevitch is a staff writer for the Atlantic. Staff Writer at The New Yorker, author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families'
Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade
Nathaniel RichPhilip Gourevitchreally enjoyed talking to @NathanielRich here about his terrific, thought-provoking new book: Second Nature https://t.co/H63DwB6MiW
Paperback, 2022
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyPhilip Gourevitchif I read this without a byline and had to guess who wrote it I’d be at least as likely to say Charles Portis (especially the dialogue) as CM Book Excerpt: ‘The Passenger,’ Cormac McCarthy’s First Novel in 16 Years - The New York Times https://t.co/cbetHDisn4
Paperback, 2023
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Heart of a Dog
Mikhail BulgakovPhilip Gourevitchlove that Lenny Kravitz is so into Bulgakov — has the wild "Heart of a Dog,” whose anti-hero is named Polygraph Polygraphovitch, on his current reading pile — and would include Bulgakov with Baldwin and Salinger at his fantasy writers’ dinner https://t.co/n5iBszMApO
Paperback, 1994
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A Flag for Sunrise
Robert StonePhilip Gourevitch“In my country we have a saying — Mickey Mouse will see you dead.” So says Frank Holliwell, the Yankee anthropologist in Robert Stone’s novel “A Flag For Sunrise.” https://t.co/T9rauqfSsk
Paperback, 1992
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Invisible Man
Ralph EllisonPhilip Gourevitch“Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy.” —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Hardcover, 1994
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The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Damon GalgutPhilip GourevitchYea! Congratulations to the great Damon Galgut for winning the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise - his third book to be short-listed for it.
Paperback, 2022
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Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
Lucinda WilliamsPhilip Gourevitchjust finished the audiobook of Lucinda Williams reading her memoir “Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You” — a raw, often wry reckoning of a great rock n roll life — and now I’m going to miss her voice in my ears cause there’s something about what happens when she talks
Paperback, 2024
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
Svetlana AlexievichPhilip Gourevitchkeep thinking of Svetlana Alexievich’s great book Boys in Zinc (aka Zinky Boys) about Russian debacle in Afghanistan, told through voices of Russian conscripts and of their mothers trying to find and bring them home — zinc was the material used for soviet military coffins https://t.co/rBXpebuCae
Paperback, 2023
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Yoga
Emmanuel CarrèrePhilip GourevitchAbsurd that @audible_com or whoever produced the audiobook of Emmanuel Carrère’s “Yoga” couldn’t get a reader who didn’t butcher pronunciation of French words & names. An American accent would be fine but this guy has invented an accent & phonics unrelated to any known language.
Paperback, 2023
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Continental Drift
Russell BanksPhilip Gourevitchreading Continental Drift in ‘86 was truly enthralling - and interviewing Russell Banks five years later was one of those occasions that disproved the old saw that meeting the ones you admire will disappoint
Paperback, 2007
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