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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.

Boldtype: The Cities Issue

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

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