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April 19, 2005
Books: Cities Reading List
Boldtype just published an issue on cities, including images from their favorite art books, reviews, and a reading list by city. The titles range from fiction to non-fiction and vary in how much they deal with a specific place.
Books Reviewed in the Cities Issue:
- Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants ~ Robert Sullivan
- Everyone’s Pretty ~ Lydia Millet
- Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found ~ Suketu Mehta
- The Cosmos Trilogy ~ Frederick Seidel
- Berlin Noir ~ Philip Kerr
- And the Word Was ~ Bruce Bauman
- Neon Tigers ~ Peter Bialobrzeski
Chicago:
- The Question of Bruno ~ Aleksandar Hemon
- The Devil in the White City ~ Erik Larson
- Division Street: America ~ Studs Terkel
Los Angeles:
- The Chrysanthemum Palace ~ Bruce Wagner
- Ask the Dust ~ John Fante
- City of Quartz ~ Mike Davis
New York:
- Angry Black White Boy ~ Adam Mansbach
- Law Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York ~ Luc Sante
- The New York Trilogy ~ Paul Auster
San Francisco:
- The Confessions of Max Tivoli ~ Andrew Sean Greer
- Valencia ~ Michelle Tea
- The Maltese Falcon ~ Dashiell Hammett
London:
- London: The Biography ~ Peter Ackroyd
- Brick Lane ~ Monica Ali