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🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "Frankenstein in Baghdad" by Ahmed Saadawi

A horror novel set in post-invasion Iraq involving a murderous, revanchist composite corpse.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 6, 2019Books, HalloweenComment
What I Am Reading: "Murder in the Métro" by Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite

Connecting an unsolved, tabloid-friendly murder in 1937 Paris to a right-wing terrorist group operating at the time.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 3, 2019Books, Interwar / Rise of Fascism Comment
What I Am Reading: "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis

The Ur-text of novels about the US being taken over by fascists.

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WritingTyler WolaninSeptember 25, 2019Books, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
What I Am Reading: "Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule" by Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis
What I Am Reading: "Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule" by Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis

The grim stories of the German Resistance.

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WritingTyler WolaninSeptember 21, 2019Interwar / Rise of Fascism, Books Comments
What I Am Reading: "Appeasement" by Tim Bouverie

A history of the British policy of appeasement of Hitler and Mussolini in the run-up to WW2.

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WritingTyler WolaninSeptember 16, 2019Books, Daladier, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
What I Am Reading: "Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War" by Adam Hochschild
What I Am Reading: "Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War" by Adam Hochschild

A general history of the Spanish Civil War with a focus on the experiences of American participants.

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WritingTyler WolaninSeptember 14, 2019Books, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
What I Am Reading: "Hitler's American Friends" by Bradley W. Hart

Nazi sympathizers, activists, and agents in the United States.

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WritingTyler WolaninSeptember 10, 2019Books, Interwar / Rise of Fascism Comment
What I Am Reading: "The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy" by Sergio Luzzatto
What I Am Reading: "The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy" by Sergio Luzzatto

The symbolism of Mussolini’s body, pre-and post-mortem.

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WritingTyler WolaninSeptember 5, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Periodic Table" by Primo Levy

Chemistry and Auschwitz (but mainly chemistry).

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WritingTyler WolaninSeptember 3, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl

Was not The Secret History, but I liked it anyway.

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WritingTyler WolaninSeptember 1, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939" by Adrian Tinniswood

Rich-people architectural history in interwar Britain.

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WritingTyler WolaninAugust 27, 2019Books, Interwar / Rise of Fascism, Art History
What I Am Reading: "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" by Gabriel García Márquez

GGM’s journalism is very different from his fiction.

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Tyler WolaninAugust 20, 2019
What I Am Reading: "The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith

The classic thriller, featuring a conman in 50s Italy.

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WritingTyler WolaninAugust 18, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand" by Philip Short

France’s most scandalous President?

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WritingTyler WolaninAugust 16, 2019Books Comments
What I Am Reading: "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" by Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson’s latest techbro novel

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WritingTyler WolaninAugust 10, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Nansen" by Roland Huntford

Victorian-era Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen

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WritingTyler WolaninJuly 24, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Blood on the Snow: The Killing of Olof Palme" by Jan Bondeson

Nonfiction Scandanavian Noir

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WritingTyler WolaninJuly 16, 2019Books Comment
What I Am Reading: "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami

This summer’s Murakami read.

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WritingTyler WolaninJuly 11, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Grown-Up Anger" by Daniel Wolff

“The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913”

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WritingTyler WolaninJuly 4, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" by Wayne Johnston
What I Am Reading: "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" by Wayne Johnston

Historical fiction about Joey Smallwood, first Premier of Newfoundland.

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WritingTyler WolaninJuly 1, 2019BooksComment
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