Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

@GALLIFRAEAN Not exactly contemporary, but Keegan's Mask of Command is definitely accessible to public audiences. Even less recent, and slightly at an angle to your prompt. Liddell-Hart's Strategy is really interesting and at least partly on point.

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

The cruelty is the point. (With apologies to Adam Serwer, who is so right.) https://t.co/Cf7eQ5C7OL

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Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

(Found this in H. H. Cunningham's Doctor's in Gray, on the Confederate medical service. Benjamin Winslow Dudley held that professorship from 1817-50 and did critical work on cleaning the surgical field with boiled water; his students carried that knowledge into the war.)

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

@IBJIYONGI Dorothy Sayers, "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club;" Gwyn MacFarlane "Alexander Fleming;" Robert MacFarlane (no rel., I believe) "The Wild Places." Just bought and dipping into "Merits of the Plague" by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani.

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

3/ This column, btw, captures some of @nytdavidbrooks' method that drives me the craziest. It's essentially a book report (on Richard Reeves Of Boys and Men), which is fine, as far as it goes, but does not engage at all with the mountain of work on this very problem...

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

Listening to Colson Whitehead talking about Harlem Shuffle. He (and I) cracked up when he described the book as “a love letter to New York…with a high body count.” Heh!

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

Just starting to write about the 3rd cholera pandemic, and I am forcing myself not to make any "John Snow knew something" jokes in the MS. By the time the book comes out, that old line will be more than stale. But it doesn't stop me thinking it every time I go to Broad Street.

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

What you just heard is known as “klong.” Klong (n): The sound of the rush of shit to the heart. A phenomenon known to occur at the sudden realization of extreme peril. (See Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent.) https://t.co/9agtjyUszu

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

Gotta week at the beach, a sea breeze blowing, a view of the Atlantic enjoy, and a Patrick O’Brian to reread (The Commodore). Writing’s been kicking my ass for the last while. This is a remedy. (Back to the MS tomorrow a.m. of course.) https://t.co/Vzk1qBZ51p

Thomas Levenson, Zṓiarchos

Thread. Susan Faludi traced the revival of a social/political culture of misogyny in Backlash; it anticipates the miserable present day. https://t.co/iXmaDvn3Wy Entrenched power–and male power in society & the home is so deeply entrenched–surrenders nothing unless compelled. https://t.co/a71BLyQHzb