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Travel Writers Who Question Their Own Assumptions
Travel Writers Who Question Their Own Assumptions
by book_guy  • 
In common: Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler goes to a park in Fuling to study Chinese and gets annoyed when people interrupt. Eventually he goes expecting to talk and learns from the people who stop. These writers leave that...
Books
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Foreign Correspondents Whose Work Goes Beyond Crisis Headlines
Foreign Correspondents Whose Work Goes Beyond Crisis Headlines
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Peter Hessler
Most foreign news arrives as a crisis: a coup, a war, a disaster. This list follows correspondents who stayed long enough, or returned often enough, to report how people actually live, from a...
People
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Influential People Who Connected Two Very Different Fields
Influential People Who Connected Two Very Different Fields
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Robin Wall Kimmerer
A second job is not automatically a second field of influence. These biographies are here because a sustained practice in one area met substantial work in another, producing a useful method, a...
People
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Oral Historians Who Preserved Overlooked Voices
Oral Historians Who Preserved Overlooked Voices
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Studs Terkel
Official records mostly capture the powerful. Oral historians set out to record everyone else: street sellers, farm labourers, formerly enslaved people, soldiers in the ranks, women caught up in...
People
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Teen Books About School Pressure That Get the Feeling Right
Teen Books About School Pressure That Get the Feeling Right
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
A grade, an exam, or a scholarship can feel like a decision about the rest of your life. These prose novels, verse novels, a graphic novel, and a manga put that feeling in a particular place, from...
Books
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Historical Figures Known for Their Diaries
Historical Figures Known for Their Diaries
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
A diary lets you follow what a person thought worth writing down before they knew what would happen next. These writers left records of work, reading, war, and family life. Start with Martha...
History
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Interviewers Who Built Remarkable Oral Archives
Interviewers Who Built Remarkable Oral Archives
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Studs Terkel
A single great interview makes headlines; thousands of them, recorded with care and kept, become a resource that historians, musicians and families draw on for generations. This list follows...
People
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Interviewers Who Get More Than Rehearsed Answers
Interviewers Who Get More Than Rehearsed Answers
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Studs Terkel
A good interviewer notices the answer that deserves another question. These presenters offer different ways of doing that, from a quiet radio exchange to a crowded chat-show sofa or a highly...
Celebrities
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Teen Sports Novels About Life Beyond the Game
Teen Sports Novels About Life Beyond the Game
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
A scholarship can change what a family can afford. A team can give someone a place to belong or ask for more than they’re ready to give. These teen novels take the sport seriously and follow what...
Books
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Poetry Collections Where the Sequence Tells Its Own Story
Poetry Collections Where the Sequence Tells Its Own Story
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
Some poetry books change when you read them from cover to cover. A form returns with new words, a voice enters after a stretch of silence, or a later poem sends you back to the opening. Each of...
Books
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Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A creative life is made from repeated decisions about materials, time, other people and the money needed to continue. These novels pay attention to that work across ceramics, textiles...
Books
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Food Writing Worth Reading Even When You Never Cook the Recipes
Food Writing Worth Reading Even When You Never Cook the Recipes
by book_guy  • 
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A recipe tells you what goes into a dish. A good piece of food writing can tell you who taught someone to make it, who did the work, and why it mattered that they ate it together. These essays...
Books
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Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
Competence is usually less glamorous than it looks from the outside. These books notice the preparation, repetition, fatigue and awkward human exchanges that let a job continue. They range from...
Books
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Teachers Who Became Influential Writers About Learning
Teachers Who Became Influential Writers About Learning
by curious_compiler  • 
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A child repeats a story about a helicopter. A class prints a piece of writing for another school to read. These teachers turned moments like those into books and essays about how learning happens...
Education
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Historical Novels About Women Whose Work Made a Difference
Historical Novels About Women Whose Work Made a Difference
by book_guy  • 
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A bridge needs finishing, a dictionary needs new words, and a vaccine needs a different line of inquiry. In these historical novels, the work itself gets a share of the page. Some follow women you...
Books
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History Creators Who Tell Stories About Everyday Life
History Creators Who Tell Stories About Everyday Life
by curious_compiler  • 
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An old recipe can tell you who had time to cook. A coat can tell you who made it and who could afford it. These historians, presenters, and video creators use ordinary things to bring past lives...
Celebrities
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People Whose Day Jobs Supported Remarkable Creative Work
People Whose Day Jobs Supported Remarkable Creative Work
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Not every great writer, composer or artist lived on their art. These people kept substantial paid jobs, in insurance, medicine, banks, libraries, customs houses, laboratories and nurseries, while...
People
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Maritime History About Trade, Labor, and Life Beyond the Captain
Maritime History About Trade, Labor, and Life Beyond the Captain
by book_guy  • 
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A voyage can begin with a dockworker’s shift, a recruiter’s promise, or an order that leaves the passenger no choice. These books follow the people who loaded ships, kept them moving, or had to...
Books
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People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
by curious_compiler  • 
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A biography often follows the name on the cover, the stage or the discovery. These profiles follow another thread: the editor who asks a better question, the teacher who develops a skill, the...
People
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Fantasy About Craft, Trade and Making a Living
Fantasy About Craft, Trade and Making a Living
by book_guy  • 
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These fantasies pay attention to what people can make, repair, sell or provide, and to the lives those activities support. Start with The Magic of Recluce for patient craft training, Legends...
Books
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