I spent most of my summer reading Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988), and it deserved more rumination than normal and a few more potential readers so I shared it with another blog that I like: Tropics of Meta. Check out the blog and my essay "Dog Day Classics: My Vietnam Vacation With John Paul Vann," which can be found here.
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August 20, 2017
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Books Read in 2018
- Paul Beatty: White Boy Shuffle (1996)
- Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
- Martin Amis: The Rachel Papers (1973)
- Jorge Carrion: Bookshops: A Reader's History (2017)
- Eva Brann: Open Secrets Inward Propects (2003)
- Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (2016)
- Viet Nanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer: A Novel (2016)
- Marc Reisner: Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (1993)
- Walker Evans: Many Are Called (1966, 2004)
- Nicholson Baker: The Way the World Works (2012)
- David Halberstam: The Coldest Winter: American and the Korean War (2007)
- Jessica Hagy : The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs (2015)
- Barnaby Rogerson: Rogerson's Book of Numbers (2013)
- Alain de Botton: Essays in Love (1993)
- Edward Abbey: Desert Solitaire (1968)
- John Hersey: A Bell for Adano (1944)
- Rebecca Solnit : A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009)
- Albert Camus: The Stranger (1942)
- Robert Whiting: You Gotta Have Wa (2009)
- Richard Cavell (Ed.): Marshall McLuhan on the Nature of Media, Essays, 1952-1978 (2016)
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