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39 RTB Books in Dark Times 12: Carlo Rotella (JP)
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Carlo Rotella of Boston College is author of six books, among them the amazing Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt (University of California Press, 2002) and most recently The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (University of Chicago Press, 2019). What is he reading in the darkness? He starts by praising sagas, makes a case for stories of disagreeableness and plugs a remarkable book about preaching, deception, and the urge to belong.
Tacitus, Germania
Haldor Laxness, Iceland’s Bell
Mitch Weiss, Broken Faith
Lawrence Wright, Going Clear (2013)
P. G. Wodehouse My Man Jeeves (indeed, 1919)
Robert E. Howard, Conan (first appearance 1932)
Listen and Read here:
Upcoming Episodes: Our Global Policing Series shifts to Turkey with Hayal Akarsu. Historian of Science Lorraine Daston’s “Books in Dark Times” is waiting in the wings. It looks to be the series finale.
68 episoade
Manage episode 266657160 series 2538127
Carlo Rotella of Boston College is author of six books, among them the amazing Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt (University of California Press, 2002) and most recently The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (University of Chicago Press, 2019). What is he reading in the darkness? He starts by praising sagas, makes a case for stories of disagreeableness and plugs a remarkable book about preaching, deception, and the urge to belong.
Tacitus, Germania
Haldor Laxness, Iceland’s Bell
Mitch Weiss, Broken Faith
Lawrence Wright, Going Clear (2013)
P. G. Wodehouse My Man Jeeves (indeed, 1919)
Robert E. Howard, Conan (first appearance 1932)
Listen and Read here:
Upcoming Episodes: Our Global Policing Series shifts to Turkey with Hayal Akarsu. Historian of Science Lorraine Daston’s “Books in Dark Times” is waiting in the wings. It looks to be the series finale.
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