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Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers (American Music Series)
University of Texas Press, September 2021. Hardcover. In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as they named themselves, grew into one of the best..... More
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Tarantula
Simon & Schuster, October 2004. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction--a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.Written in 1966, Tarantula is a...... More
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Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, January 2016. Hardcover. **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity)..... More
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley)
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here..... More
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Death and Life of Great American Cities
Random House Inc, November 1992. Trade Paperback. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty..... More
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My Year Abroad: A Novel
Riverhead Books, February 2022. Paper Back. INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire "A manifesto to happiness--the one found when you stop running from who you are." -New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary..... More
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Fulfillment
Picador Paper, January 2022. Paper Back. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effectively." --Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's..... More
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
St. Martin's Griffin, January 2021. Paper Back. Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Best History & Biography 2020 Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards An entertaining quest to trace the origins..... More
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Harper Wave, June 2021. Hardcover. The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes them..... More
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City on the Verge
Basic Books, May 2017. Hardcover. What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, gridlocked..... More
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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Crown, May 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world "The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride--across the centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid first-person..... More
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Black No More
Penguin Classics, January 2018. Paper Back. The landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?" It's New Year's Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr. Junius Crookman has..... More
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