Tell Me What You’re Reading #17: Josh Raff and his "Six Feet of Books"
Joshua Raff is a lawyer, a serious and thoughtful reader, a lover of food, wine, and music, among other things, and an emerging writer. Josh received an M.F.A. in creative non-fiction from the University of King’s College in May, 2019. His writing can be found on his website, Unbarred (linked below).
More about Josh
The focus of our podcast discussion was on several sets of books, which Josh refers to as either “twinned” or “paired” books + additional books that Josh is reading.
What Josh is Reading
Song of a Captive Bird, by Jasmin Darznik
Reviews The New York Times | Kirkus
The Age of Light, by Whitney Scharer
Reviews The New York Times | Kirkus
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Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom, by Thomas Ricks
Reviews The New York Times | Cato Journal
NPR Interview
East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide , by Philippe Sands
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian | The Irish Times
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Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession, by Andrew Friedman
Reviews The New York Times | Kirkus | LA Weekly
Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray, by Adam Federman
Reviews The New York Times | NPR | Kirkus
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Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford
Reviews The New Yorker | The Guardian
His Bloody Project, by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian
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and more …
Solitary, by Albert Woodfox
Reviews The Guardian | The Washington Post
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, by John Strausbaugh
Reviews The New York Times | The New Yorker | Kirkus Reviews
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel
Reviews The New York Times | The Washington Post | Kirkus Reviews
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyn
Review The Guardian
These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lenore
Reviews The Guardian | Los Angeles Review of Books
Some of Josh’s Bookstores
Oblong Books & Music in Millerton and Rhinebeck, NY
What Howard Has Been Reading
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert Caro
Vol. 1 The Path to Power
Review The New York Times
Vol. 2 Means of Ascent
Review The New York Times
Vol. 3 Master of the Senate
Review The Guardian
Vol. 4 The Passage of Power
Review Los Angeles Times
Working, by Robert Caro
Reviews The New York Times | NPR | Kirkus Reviews | Chicago Review of Books | The Paris Review of Books
The Uninhabitable Earth - Life After Warming, by David Wallace - Wells
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian | The Washington Post | Slate
A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean
Reviews The New York Times | Independent
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law, by Preet Bharara
Review The New York Times
Churchill - Walking With Destiny, by Andrew Roberts
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian | The Wall Street Journal | National Review
