Book · 2018 · Young women
Small Fry
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- people
- 4
- podcasts
- 3
- episodes
- 6
- critical mentions
- 0
The best book I read preparing for this series and I read this thing cover to cover in about a day is Lisa Jobs's Lisa.
What they say about it
- Leaning into every detail“leaning into every detail”2
The best things said about it
When you have a really amazing guest speaker or I'm reading Steve Jobs' daughter's memoir, Small Fry, oh my gosh, I'm just leaning into every detail.
Angela Duckworth No Stupid Questions · Dec 2024 What I like about Lisa's book and why I think this is such a useful addition to the Jobs canon is that this is not just somebody who, like, maybe walked past as Steve was being shitty.
I read her book and oh, that's a heartbreaker.
Where and when it comes up
Mentions per year
How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs is a deeply personal memoir written by the daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, chronicling her complex, often painful childhood and her evolving relationship with her brilliant yet emotionally distant father. Pamela Paul featured the memoir on The Book Review as one of the best non-fiction books of 2018, while Robert Evans enthusiastically recommended it on Behind the Bastards, calling it the single best book he read while preparing for a series on Steve Jobs and praising its evocative prose. Angela Duckworth discussed the memoir on No Stupid Questions, noting how she eagerly devoured every detail of the narrative not necessarily because it completely upended her view of Jobs, but because the novelty of the intimate domestic scenes provided a captivating learning experience. Host Gilbert Cruz also interviewed the author on The Book Review to discuss her debut work. Throughout Behind the Bastards, Robert Evans frequently quoted passages from the book to illustrate specific anecdotes, such as car rides in a Porsche, arguing that Brennan-Jobs provides an uniquely insightful and honest perspective that rises above standard corporate hagiographies or distant observations. The memoir is widely recognized as a valuable addition to the cultural canon surrounding Silicon Valley royalty, offering an unflinching look at fame, family dysfunction, and personal resilience.
Every mention
Robert Evans the best book I read preparing for this series and I read this thing cover to cover in about a day is Lisa… 5
“That's how she describes it in her book, which is wonderfully evocative. That's what you want from your dad.”
“What I like about Lisa's book and why I think this is such a useful addition to the Jobs canon is that this is not just somebody who, like, maybe walked past as Steve was being shitty or like heard some stories from some other people; just being like, 'Oh yeah, you know, he could be a dick.'”
“One she relates in her book is that like when she's like I think 12 or something, he's driving her around in his brand new Porsche, right?”
“the best book I read preparing for this series and I read this thing cover to cover in about a day is Lisa Jobs's Lisa”
“and this story is very ably told in the book small fry by Lisa Brennan jobs”
Pamela Paul speaking of Steve Jobs um our third book is Lisa Brennan jobs Memoir small fry 1
“speaking of Steve Jobs um our third book is Lisa Brennan jobs Memoir small fry”
Angela Duckworth And I think that when you have a really amazing guest speaker or I'm reading Steve Jobs' daughter's memoir,… 2
“or I'm reading like Steve Jobs daughter's Memoir small fry oh my gosh I'm just leaning into every detail and it's not because she's saying things that have upended my idea of who Steve Jobs was it's just itself new to me like novelty and I'm really learning like I didn't know that I had no idea she saw her”
“And I think that when you have a really amazing guest speaker or I'm reading Steve Jobs' daughter's memoir, 'Small Fry,' oh my gosh, I'm just leaning into every detail.”
Gilbert Cruz first up Lisa Brennan jobs talks to us about her debut book A Memoir small fry 1
“first up Lisa Brennan jobs talks to us about her debut book A Memoir small fry”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
“I just feel badly for Steve Waznjak, who I'm sure still mourns him dutifully cuz he's badly for his daughter. I read her book and Oh, that's a heartbreaker.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“the author of small fry and beard is a novelist”
“and so he keeps asking questions much in the way that brenen jobs did in small fry where she had to go back in time and piece things together”
“and incidentally completely by coincidence the last book we read was small fry”