Recommend a book to a stranger.

[Idris2002]

Worth reading if you can get them for free from a library, starting with:

Greetings from Bury Park, Sarfraz Mansoor. Second-generation Pakistani immigrant life, as seen through the life of the author and his lifelong Bruce Springsteen fandom

 

[SpookyFrank]

Chuck Palahniuk - Stranger Than Fiction

 

[Idris2002]

Danse Macabre, Stephen King's personal history of the horror genre.

 

[DotCommunist]

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Ian Pears

 

[Yossarian]

Nick Reding - Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

 

[Idris2002]

An Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service 1987–1995, Eamonn Delaney. Don't spend money on it, but if it's in a library, or going cheap in a charity shop, it's not too bad.

Yossarian has reminded me of Deer Hunting with Jesus, by (I think) Joe Bageant. A Bush-years account of rural decay in the American heartland, the hegemony of the right, and the rise of social problems like meth (though I can't remember if meth was mentioned in that one, it's ten years since I read it!).

 

[Edie]

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Ian Pears

Ooh I loved that book!

 

[Idris2002]

The Laundry Series of Charlie Stross - Start with the Atrocity Archives.

 

[billy_bob]

Zamyatin - We

Orwell drew on it for 1984. It's quite a lot like it, but better.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Illusions - Richard Bach.

 

[Idris2002]

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs.

The Pursuit of the Millennium, Norman S. Cohn.

 

[Favelado]

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs.

I have ordered this and it's arriving tomorrow. I am planning to write a book in the future, and I think Jacobs will be be key for me. Do you know where I can track down her articles for Cue and Vogue magazines?

A Google search isn't working for me. There is an article on manhole covers I need, because it might be a template for something I want to write.

 

[Idris2002]

I have ordered this and it's arriving tomorrow. I am planning to write a book in the future, and I think Jacobs will be be key for me. Do you know where I can track down her articles for Cue and Vogue magazines?

A Google search isn't working for me. There is an article on manhole covers I need, because it might be a template for something I want to write.

No idea, sorry! Archive.org has a lot of old magazines (though I suspect that Vogue might be too jealous of their copyright to allow it in their case). You might want to try there, if you know the year the JJ piece was published by that mag.

 

[Favelado]

Cheers. She wrote an article about the flower district, and another about manhole covers. If you ever come across them let me know.

 

[Favelado]

Vital Little Plans

From the INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American CitiesNo one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global...

books.google.es

I think I've hit the jackpot.

 

[little_legs]

Vital Little Plans

From the INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American CitiesNo one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global...

books.google.es

I think I've hit the jackpot.

If you are still looking for it

.epub version here
.pdf verion here

 

[Favelado]

Brilliant.

 

[little_legs]

Also Idris2002 is