recreation

I haven't updated this book/coffee shop collection in ages, but am always happy to chat about cool stuff I've chewed on recently, or offer coffee shop recommendations.

present

2022/05 - Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Anscombe, Hacker & Schulte

past

2023/05 - A Private Spy: The Letters of John Le Carré - John Le Carré, edited by Tim Cornwell
2023/06 - Absolute Friends - John Le Carré
2023/06 - Scattered All Over the Earth - Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
Hyperion Coffee Co
2023/06 - Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
Hyperion Coffee Co
2023/05 - The Journalist and the Murderer - Janet Malcolm
2023/05 - Computers, Minds and Conduct - Graham Button, Jeff Coulter, John R.E. Lee & Wes Sharrock
RoosRoast Liberty
2023/05 - The Seventh Function of Language - Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
YORK Food and Drink
2023/05 - Rules: A Short History of What We Live by - Lorraine Daston
Dozer Coffee
2023/05 - Call for the Dead - John Le Carré
Hyperion Coffee Co
2023/05 - The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century - Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken
Hyperion Coffee Co
2023/05 - This Book Will Make You Kinder: An Empathy Handbook - Henry James Garrett
2023/04 - The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks - Amy Stewart
2023/04 - Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings - Paul Drew & John Heritage
2023/03 - Our Game - John Le Carré
2023/02 - Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means - Donald P. Moynihan & Pamela Herd
2023/02 - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us - Ed Yong
RoosRoast Liberty
2023/01 - Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want - Ruha Benjamin
University of Michigan
2023/01 - Against Method - Paul Feyerabend
Hyperion Coffee Co
2023/01 - The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
YORK Food and Drink
2022/12 - A Small Town in Germany - John Le Carré
2022/11 - Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know - Alexandra Horowitz
2022/10 - Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy - Elizabeth Popp Berman
RoosRoast Liberty
2022/10 - Don't Shoot the Dog: The Art of Teaching and Training - Karen Pryor
Argus Farm Stop - Liberty
2022/10 - Forms of Talk - Erving Goffman
Comet Coffee
2022/10 - The Culture Clash - Jean Donaldson
Hyperion Coffee Co
2022/09 - Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon - Bronwen Dickey
Zingerman's Next Door Café
2022/09 - Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research - Mario Luis Small & Jessica McCrory Calarco
University of Michigan
2022/08 - The Constant Gardener - John Le Carré
Hyperion Coffee Co
2022/09 - The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy - Hannah Zeavin
University of Michigan
2022/08 - Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
2022/08 - A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carré
RoosRoast Liberty
2022/05 - The End of Policing - Alex Vitale
Thorough Bread & Pastry
2022/05 - The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs - Patricia McConnell
Verve Coffee Roasters
2022/05 - Sequence Organization in Interaction - Emanuel Schegloff
2022/05 - Complaint! - Sara Ahmed
2022/03 - The Tailor of Panama - John Le Carré
2022/02 - The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy - David Graeber
2022/02 - The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity - Lewis Raven Wallace
2022/02 - Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption - Rafia Zakaria
2022/02 - Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing - Sarah Brayne
2022/01 - Street-Level Bureaucracy - Michael Lipsky
2022/01 - Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit - Ashley Mears
2022/01 - The Quiet American - Graham Greene
2021/12 - Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carré
2021/12 - Data Feminism - Catherine D'Ignazio & Lauren F. Klein
2021/12 - A City is Not a Computer - Shannon Mattern
Verve Coffee Roasters
2021/12 - Down, Out, and Under Arrest - Forrest Stuart
Dolores Park Cafe
2021/12 - Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century - Hazel R. Markus & Paula M. L. Moya
2021/11 - Silverview - John Le Carré
2021/11 - Strategic Interaction - Erving Goffman
Coupa Cafe
2021/11 - The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino
Philz Coffee
2021/10 - Talking about Troubles in Conversation - Gail Jefferson
Verve Coffee Roasters
2021/10 - Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences - Geoffrey C. Bowker & Susan Leigh Star
Verve Coffee Roasters
2021/10 - Vesper Flights - Helen MacDonald
Atlas Cafe
2021/10 - Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
2021/10 - Causal Inference: What If? - Miguel Hernán & Jamie Robins
Verve Coffee Roasters
2021/10 - Conversational Style - Deborah Tannen
Blue Bottle Coffee
2021/09 - Exhalation - Ted Chiang
2021/09 - Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do - Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Margaret Jacks Hall
2021/09 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
2021/08 - Orientalism - Edward W. Said
2021/08 - A Legacy of Spies - John Le Carré
2021/08 - Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship - Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, Donald P. Haider-Markel
2021/08 - Agent Running in the Field - John Le Carré
Stable Cafe
2021/08 - Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Atlas Cafe
2021/08 - The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu
Haus Coffee
2021/08 - Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town - Barbara Demick
Mission Dolores Park
2021/08 - Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en, translated by Julia Lovell
MY Coffee Roastery
2021/08 - The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carré
Caffè Strada
2021/07 - The Aleph and Other Stories - Jorge Luis Borges
SPRO Coffee Lab
2021/07 - Six Memos for the Next Millennium - Italo Calvino
Hound and Mare
2021/07 - Harvey Sacks-Lectures, 1964-1965 - transcribed by Gail Jefferson
University of Michigan
2021/04 - Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism - Wendy Liu
Carnegie Mellon University
2021/03 - Blockchain Chicken Farm - Xiaowei Wang
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
2021/02 - The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Washington University in St. Louis
2021/02 - Living a Feminist Life - Sara Ahmed
University of Chicago
2021/01 - The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life - John Le Carré
Northeastern University
2021/01 - Human-Machine Reconfigurations - Lucy Suchman
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2021/01 - A Perfect Spy - John Le Carré
Emory University
2020/12 - How to Read Wittgenstein - Ray Monk
2020/10 - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman
2020/07 - Approaches to Discourse - Deborah Schiffrin
2020/07 - The Power Broker - Robert Caro
2020/06 - Smiley's People - John Le Carré
2020/05 - The Honourable Schoolboy - John Le Carré
2020/03 - Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
Gimme! Coffee
2020/02 - A Burglar's Guide to the City - Geoff Manaugh
2020/02 - From Counterculture to Cyberculture - Fred Turner
Mui Ho Fine Arts Library
2020/02 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
2020/02 - The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai - Ha Jin
McNally Jackson
2020/01 - The Looking Glass War - John Le Carré
Ithaca Bakery
2019/12 - The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
SilverStar Mountain Resort
2019/11 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
Ithaca Bakery
2019/11 - Using Language - Herbert Clark
Gimme! Coffee
2019/07 - Working - Robert Caro
Vif Wine|Coffee
2019/06 - A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 - Frederic Morton
Fremont Coffee Company
2019/05 - Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
People's Cafe
2019/03 - Micromotives and Macrobehavior - Thomas Schelling
2019/03 - Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal - Ben Macintyre
Gimme! Coffee
2019/03 - Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Jane
2019/01 - Prelude and Fugue in C# major, BWV 848 - Johann Sebastian Bach
2018/12 - Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm - Philip Pullman
Phil & Sebastian
2018/12 - The Odyssey - Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Bean Tree Cafe
2018/12 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
Snowdrift Cafe
2018/12 - The Worldly Philosophers - Robert Heilbroner
abraço
2018/11 - Neuromancer - William Gibson
Grounded Coffee House
2018/11 - Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Devoción
2018/10 - The Wizard and the Prophet - Charles Mann
Gimme! Coffee
2018/10 - All the President's Men - Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
abraço
2018/10 - Darkness Visible - William Styron
2018/09 - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard
abraço
2018/09 - Wanderlust: A History of Walking - Rebecca Solnit
Ithaca
2018/08 - A Cook's Tour - Anthony Bourdain
The Fairway Place, Xi'an
2018/08 - A History of the World in 100 Objects - Neil MacGregor
Café Integral
2018/07 - Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
Royal Botanic Gardens
2018/07 - Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
McNally Jackson
2018/07 - Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The High Line
2018/04 - Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847 - Johann Sebastian Bach
2018/04 - Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows
Gimme! Coffee
2018/03 - Finite and Infinite Games - James Carse
Nikki Green
2018/01 - Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846 - Johann Sebastian Bach
2018/01 - The Trouble with Reality - Brooke Gladstone
Gimme! Coffee
2018/01 - The World's Religions - Huston Smith
Cantook Micro Torréfaction
2017/09 - Axiomatic - Greg Egan
Den Sorte Diamant
2017/08 - The Night Manager - John Le Carré
Phil & Sebastian
2017/05 - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
Charafiz do Carmo
2017/01 - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
Gimme! Coffee
2017/01 - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
McNally Jackson
2017/01 - The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
Higher Ground
2017/01 - Deep Work - Cal Newport
2016/12 - What to Listen for in Music - Aaron Copland
Canmore
2016/11 - How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler
Devoción
2016/11 - The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu - Dan Jurafsky
Fresco Gelateria
2016/11 - Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
McNally Jackson
2015/11 - Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances - Neil Gaiman
2015/10 - The Influencing Machine - Brooke Gladstone
2015/10 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
2015/08 - How to Solve It - George Pólya
2015/08 - Perfume - Patrick Süskind
2015/08 - Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
Kimberley
2015 - Tenth of December - George Saunders
2015 - In Persuasion Nation - George Saunders
Narnia
2014/09 - American Gods - Neil Gaiman
CoHo
2014/08 - Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Kreuzberg
2013/11 - The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
Oak Creek Apartments
2013 - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays - David Foster Wallace
Ricker Dining Hall
2013 - Dune - Frank Herbert
2013 - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
2013 - The Plague - Albert Camus
2013 - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
2013 - Cryptonomicon - Neil Stephenson
2013 - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Braun Auditorium
2012 - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
2012 - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Burbank House
2011 - Rondo on Argentine Children's Folk-Tunes - Alberto Ginastera
2011 - Clair de lune - Claude Debussy
2011 - Fantaisie-Impromptu - Frédéric Chopin
2011 - Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 14, No. 2 (Allegro) - Ludwig van Beethoven
2011 - Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 860 - Johann Sebastian Bach

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lots :(

2018/01 - Impromptu Op. 90, No. 1 - Franz Schubert
2017 - Mostly Harmless Econometrics - Joshua Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke
2017 - The History of the Siege of Lisbon - José Saramago
2017 - Sonatine - Maurice Ravel
2016 - Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3 - Ludwig van Beethoven
2014 - The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross
2013 - Permutation City - Greg Egan