Virginia Heffernan 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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Virginia Heffernan is a journalist and cultural critic. Journalist @WIRED + elsewhere
Happiness: Daily Habits For Happiness, Positivity & Optimism
Perfect SelfVirginia Heffernan@FillinghamLydia Seems this person teaches it at the Aspen Institute. So happiness itself (w/all the quantified self stuff & focus on “leadership” & “productivity”) has been made elitist. instead, the Y is the perfect place to offer this, w/a focus on movement, fresh air, maybe nutrition, therapy
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The Octopus
Frank NorrisVirginia Heffernan@DanielTorday Finance: The Pit by Frank Norris (futures trading) and The Financier by Theodore Dreiser Real estate: The Octopus, by Frank Norris
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Servants of the Damned: The Dark Side of American Law
David EnrichVirginia HeffernanHoly shit. This is not another “Trump book” — or not just that. It’s a riveting/terrifying/necessary exposé of how Jones Day & other bent law firms whitewash and defend fraud & tyranny. Congratulations on a masterwork @davidenrich
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Beth MacyVirginia Heffernan@adamdavidson @praddenkeefe Also and forever @papergirlmacy Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America https://t.co/i9ztgj1hIU
Paperback, 2019
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Argonauts
Maggie NelsonVirginia HeffernanI spoke to Maggie Nelson of “The Argonauts” and “On Freedom” about climate, sex, drugs, and hope. https://t.co/gNWIkXpnzy
Paperback, 2016
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David GraeberVirginia HeffernanI did indeed fall into Socratic ecstasy — doubting all my previous beliefs & overjoyed to let them go — while reading The Dawn of Everything, co-authored by the great @davidwengrow
Paperback, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox RichardsonVirginia HeffernanThe most lucid just-so story for Trump's rise I've ever heard. It's magisterial.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookDemocracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox RichardsonVirginia HeffernanIf anyone can be trusted with the crossroads cliché, then, it’s Richardson. And in 'Democracy Awakening,' 'the crossroads' serves less as a philosophical crux than as a crime in a detective novel… Richardson is our ideal Miss Marple.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
J. JoyceVirginia HeffernanIf you need a breath, we have a great episode @ThisCriticalPod about James Joyce’s Ulysses. With all the new reasons to avoid the news, now’s your chance to READ it. Episode stars my peerless pop, James Heffernan, of The Great Courses. https://t.co/Rr38XS4YwA https://t.co/miDlLq5wJx
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Ulysses: Second Edition
James JoyceVirginia HeffernanIf you need a breath, we have a great episode @ThisCriticalPod about James Joyce’s Ulysses. With all the new reasons to avoid the news, now’s your chance to READ it. Episode stars my peerless pop, James Heffernan, of The Great Courses. https://t.co/Rr38XS4YwA https://t.co/miDlLq5wJx
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book