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Sam Adler-Bell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Sam Adler-Bell is a journalist and writer. writer // cohost of @knowyrenemypod with my pal @matthewsitman

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Book Cover for: White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, Regina Jackson

White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

Regina Jackson
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

It’s so funny that the title of Saira Rao’s documentary about white women plays off a Woody Allen movie. https://t.co/5xgvbgXunQ

Paperback, 2022

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Edinburgh, James Heron

Edinburgh

James Heron
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

It’s good to have one non-negotiable plan when visiting a city on vacation. E.g. I’m really going with the flow here in sunny Edinburgh, but I will not rest until I see the wardrobe the infamous Deacon Brodie built for Robert Louis Stevenson at the Writer’s Museum.

Paperback, 2019

$20.95$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel, John Le Carré

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel

John Le Carré
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

“Tinker, Tailor” is also le Carré’s most pointed indictment of the English upper classes, satirizing their imperial nostalgia, capacity for betrayal and genius for self-preservation. Even so, the novel indulges a wistfulness for wartime moral heroism and bourgeois grit.

Paperback, 2011

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Looking Glass War: A George Smiley Novel, John Le Carré

The Looking Glass War: A George Smiley Novel

John Le Carré
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

…damned foolishness, hubris and sentimentality are culprits in [The Looking Glass War]. And these frailties, le Carré suggests, are particular to men — especially men in love. Fraternity of this sort is a source of beauty and ruin in le Carré’s books.

Paperback, 2013

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Little Drummer Girl, John Le Carré

The Little Drummer Girl

John Le Carré
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

New bonus @KnowYrEnemyPod: on the novels of John le Carré and the (bad) 1984 film adaptation of "The Little Drummer Girl" with @jbouie and @lionel_trolling of @UnclearPod https://t.co/6kj34r8OnW

Paperback, 2011

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO, Felix Gillette

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

Felix Gillette
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

HBO gradually shed its reputation as a fratty boys’ club, but the network’s origins as a vehicle for male licentiousness haunt the pages of “It’s Not TV.” ... The book is full of arresting insights...

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mortals, Norman Rush

Mortals

Norman Rush
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

the girls are reading MATING; the boys are reading MORTALS and speculating about whether Norman Rush was CIA

Paperback, 2004

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Little Drummer Girl, John Le Carré

The Little Drummer Girl

John Le Carré
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

This life-or-death creative enterprise, which is also a twisted, mutual seduction, is le Carré’s most thrilling testament to the power and perils of fiction.

Paperback, 2011

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner), Norman Rush

Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

Norman Rush
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

the girls are reading MATING; the boys are reading MORTALS and speculating about whether Norman Rush was CIA

Paperback, 1992

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan
Sam Adler-BellSam Adler-Bell

NEW @KnowYrEnemyPod: we take on Bob Dylan's very strange 2022 book "The Philosophy of Modern Song" with help from KYE's own musician-in-residence Will Epstein! https://t.co/LenJONT24w

Hardcover, 2022

$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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