Defector Media Staffers' Picks
By Defector Media
By Defector Media
Defector Media is a 100-percent worker-owned and -operated media company that covers sports & culture. Here's what our staffers have been reading recently.
Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
Andrea Swensson
$17.95From Justin Ellis: "Would you like to know how Prince became Prince, and what informed his sound? Read this."
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters (Reissue)
Joan Ryan
$16.99From Diana Moskovitz: "One of the most important pieces of sport journalism in my lifetime."
A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird
Rosemary Mosco
$14.95 $13.90From Dan McQuade: "Interesting information, cute illustrations!"
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
$18.00 $16.74From Kalyn Kahler: "Reading this book makes you feel cozy and warm."
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
Vincent Bevins
$18.99 $17.66From Laura Wagner
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
$19.99 $18.59From Luis Paez-Pumar: "This fantasy trilogy features teens with superpowers and rapidly deterioating mental health, set in an Imperial China-like continent full of epic wars and a substantial amount of gore."
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
Peter Brannen
$16.99 $15.80From Barry Petchesky
I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
Michael Arceneaux
$17.00 $15.81From Justin Ellis
Women, Race, & Class
Angela Y Davis
$17.00 $15.81From Diana Moskovitz: "An absolute masterpiece. From 1981 but still relevant today."
Path of Totality: Poems
Niina Pollari
$16.95 $15.76From Kelsey McKinney: "Poems that made me feel like I had been punched in the gut."
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
$17.00 $15.81From Diana Moskovitz: "Dystopian fiction one of the masters of the craft and you can read it in one sitting."
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Sarah Schulman
$40.00 $37.20From Lauren Theisen
Defector Media is a 100-percent worker-owned and -operated media company that covers sports & culture.