Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2013-08-15
Books mentioned on 136. The Middle of Everywhere
Chicago has given the world more than sausage, crooked politics, and Da Bears. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company.
Thomas Dijia discussed The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren and the second sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Discussed“I think the greatest writer Chicago produces during these years is Nelson Algren. And his love story during this time with Simone de Beauvoir, a woman who the New Yorker at the time called, quote, the prettiest existentialist. Was it a long list? I don't know.”
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the second sex
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is a foundational feminist philosophical treatise that examines the historical and social construction of womanhood.
Discussed“Algren wrote The Man with the Golden Arm. It's a great novel about a heroin addict named Frankie Machine. Frank Sinatra played him in the film. And Algren encouraged his one-time lover, Simone de Beauvoir, to write The Second Sex, which became one of the Bibles of the feminist movement.”
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