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Timothy Noah 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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Staff writer, New Republic. Prev. Politico, Slate, WSJ. Email: tnoah@tnr.com. Mastodon: https://t.co/SyJRuxsYIQ Post News: https://t.co/hBLt1j07Ql

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Book Cover for: Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig
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At the moment I'm reading Stefan Zweig's "Beware of Pity," which is all about emotional blackmail. With that it mind: Follow me on Mastodon or I will weep and bang my head against the wall! @timothy@mas.to https://t.co/OXiceIQR33

Paperback, 2020

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake, Sarah Chayes

On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake

Sarah Chayes
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I enjoyed talking to Sarah Chayes Monday night about her book, "On Corruption in America," just out in paperback. https://t.co/OEwoFgKmJC

Paperback, 2021

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond
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Why does the U.S. economy leave the same percentage in poverty as Estonia, with a GDP one-thousandth the size? In the Washington Post, I review new books by “Evicted” author Matthew Desmond (@just_shelter) and Mark Robert Rank. https://t.co/Ed83rIXica

Paperback, 2017

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Unreliable Memoirs, Clive James

Unreliable Memoirs

Clive James
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@imalexbeamyrnot As you probably know, Clive James titled the first of his, about his very un-literary Tom Sawyerish childhood in a still-wild Australia, “Unreliable Memoirs.” Great book.

Paperback, 2009

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Clyde's

Lynn Nottage
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1. The New York Times reports today that Lynn Nottage's play "Clyde's" will livestream 16 performances in January. The piece describes various precedents for televising Broadway shows during their theatrical runs, but it misses the first of these, a 1963 play by my father. https://t.co/2eX6zjfKwy

Paperback, 2024

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate, Marjorie Williams

The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate

Marjorie Williams
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Nearly 18 years after it was published, "The Woman at the Washington Zoo," the first of two posthumous anthologies of Marjorie Williams's writings, remains in print. I just received a royalty payment of not quite $70. Feeling very grateful this book continues to find readers.

Paperback, 2006

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Octopus: A Story of California: Premium Edition, Frank Norris

The Octopus: A Story of California: Premium Edition

Frank Norris
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What a throwback to be thinking about the global market in wheat. Frank Norris, thou shouldst be living at this hour! “The Octopus” is about the battle between California wheat farmers (wheat was once the state’s principal crop) and the railroads. https://t.co/sqMbD4IqBF

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Book Cover for: Couples, John Updike

Couples

John Updike
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My own literacy suffered from growing up in a liberal community. How was I to know what to read when my parents wouldn’t tell me what not to? To this day I’ve still never read John Updike’s “Couples” or Terry Southern’s “Candy,” the two dirtiest books on my parents’ shelves. https://t.co/HbS8RGhEo1

Paperback, 1996

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America, Barbara Ehrenreich

Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Barbara Ehrenreich
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@jamesnorth7 Part of the insane American idea that losers have problems and winners have challenges. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a book about this, “Bright-Sided.” (Bad title, great book.)

Paperback, 2010

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam
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George Will has a great column (words I don’t often recite) on the legacy of David Halberstam’s “The Best and the Brightest,” published 50 years ago today. The book articulated (and perhaps shaped) forces that warp our politics to this day. https://t.co/wkwJR5Xr4j

Paperback, 1993

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