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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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1913
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Florian Illies
Richard Friedman
, November 03, 2014
This is a wonderful way to tell history. Illies dissects the year 1913 month by month with short accounts of what various important players were doing that month ... from Franz Kafka and Stefan George, to Alma Mahler, Josef Stalin, and Sigmund Freud. The stories are so interwoven and fascinating, it's hard to put it down. Some of the stories are clearly fanciful. For example, while it is reported by many of their friends, both Stalin and Hitler were in Vienna in February 1913, and both liked to take solitary walks in the park. Did they ever cross paths? Perhaps a tip of the hat as stranger approaches stranger on the path? Perhaps. A very exciting book to read, and a great way to tell history. So, will there be a sequel? 1914? Do tell!
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
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Hilary Mantel
Richard Friedman
, October 29, 2014
Just finished Hilary Mantel's new collection of short stories. Disturbing. "Unsettling" is the word being used. They are, quite. Minimalist, yet beautifully written. These stories leave you slightly bent out of shape, but in awe of the tales and the story teller. Highly, highly recommended. And worth re-reading over and over again. (And I don't read much fiction, so it's really got to be good.)
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Wolf Hall
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Hilary Mantel
Richard Friedman
, January 30, 2013
Best historical fiction I've ever read.
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Journey to the Abyss The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler 1880 1918
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Harry Kessler, Laird Easton
Richard Friedman
, April 18, 2012
Alex Ross writes about Kessler and these early diaries in the April 23rd issue of the New Yorker. Excellent article. Now I need the book!
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Road to 9 11 Wealth Empire & the Future of America
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Peter Dale Scott
Richard Friedman
, September 02, 2007
This is a spectacular book that asks what happened to the great American ideals that this country was founded on, and shows how they have been undermined by closed, secret "cabals" that act as a government within the government, defying the fundamentals of democracy. A MUST READ!
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Chance & Circumstance Twenty Years with Cage & Cunningham
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Carolyn Brown
Richard Friedman
, June 22, 2007
The wonderful thing about this book is that it gives a very close-up view of the Cage/Cunningham world, especially in the early years of the Cunningham Dance Company. It also presents the two major figures, John Cage and Merce Cunningham, in a critical light. We see them both as the towering creative forces that the outer world knows, as well as the difficult, moody, and complicated people they really are, or were. The book is exhausting in the way it reveals Brown's life as a dancer, and the tensions and struggles of the Company. Perhaps it could be a few pages shorter, but the insight into the world of modern dance in general, and the NY avant-garde in the 1950's and 60's in particular is fascinating and valuable. It's also a good example of why people keep detailed journals.
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