Episode · The Book Review · 2018-03-02
Books mentioned on A Marine’s Inventive Memoir
Pamela Paul discussed Eat the apple by Matt Young, Redeployment by Phil Klay, The yellow birds by Kevin Powers, The Rub of Time by Martin Amis, and The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère. A.O. Scott recommended The War Against Cliché by Martin Amis, and discussed Time's Arrow by Martin Amis and Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman. Alexandra Alter discussed I love Dick by Chris Kraus and others. Dwight Garner discussed A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma and Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère. Jennifer Szalai discussed Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker and The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. Parul Sehgal discussed Blue dreams by Lauren Slater and Prozac Diary by Lauren Slater.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Redeployment
Redeployment by Phil Klay is a collection of short stories examining the experiences of soldiers in recent wars.
Discussed“or Phil cl's redeployment”
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The yellow birds
The Yellow Birds is a critically acclaimed contemporary novel by Kevin Powers that offers a harrowing, lyrical portrayal of the realities of military service and the psychological toll of the Iraq War.
Discussed“most of the other books I think the were at least the ones that have gotten a lot of attention have been fiction you know whether it's Heaven powers' the yellow birds”
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The Rub of Time
The Rub of Time: Catching Up With Himself by Martin Amis is a wide-ranging collection of essays, literary criticism, and cultural commentary by the acclaimed British author, covering topics from politics and literature to notable public figures.
Discussed“AO Scott joins us now to talk about Martin amos' new book it's called the rub of time Bellow”
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The War Against Cliché
The War Against Cliché is a collection of literary criticism and essays by Martin Amis that compiles decades of his writings on various authors and books.
Recommended“and his previous collection the war against cliche which is a collection almost entirely of his literary criticism is is one of my sort of Touchstone books”
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Time's Arrow
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis is a structurally daring and controversial novel that tells the life story of a Nazi doctor in reverse, beginning with his death and ending in the womb.
Discussed“and he wrote and he wrote times Arrow which is the famous Holocaust novel told in reversed”
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Call Me by Your Name
Discussed“what you think about some of the maybe literary adaptations yeah well I think I think the the the big one is uh call me by your name Andre aiman's novel”
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I love Dick
I Love Dick is a novel by Chris Kraus that explores intense obsession, feminism, and artistic culture, generating considerable discussion across multiple episodes of The Book Review.
Discussed“and another television show I love dick which are part of Amazon Studios you can watch them on Amazon Prime and she's starting a publishing imprint which I thought was pretty interesting because she does seem to have a literary take on things I love dick is an adaptation of a novel by Chris Krauss”
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A Tokyo Romance
Discussed“uh Ian brm is new Memoir a Tokyo romance you know we all know who Ian bumma is I mean this this this extremely well regarded Dutch historian”
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Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker is a widely acclaimed book that uses data and numerous charts to argue for long-term human progress, global prosperity, and the triumphs of reason and science.
Discussed“uh so this week I read Stephen pinker's new book Enlightenment now maybe he did too yeah I mean there's a lot of exclamation points actually in the book”
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker is a sweeping historical and data-driven book arguing that violence has steadily declined over the course of human history.
Discussed“you could see this book as a sequel to his 2011 book better the better angels of our nature which argued that the world because of Enlightenment values”
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Blue dreams
Discussed“well I mean I took things in a very depressing direction as always and reviewed a book called Blue Dreams by Lauren Slater that sort of looks at this”
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Prozac Diary
Discussed“so if you've been following Slater's trajectory she published Prozac diary when she was I think 26 or 27”
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The Adversary
The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère is a chilling true-crime narrative that chronicles the life and horrific crimes of Jean-Claude Romand, a French man who murdered his entire family after lying to them about his career for decades.
Discussed“I read a book that is also kind of defies categories that I finished this week Emanuel carer a familiar name to listeners of this podcast I I regret to say I'm bringing back um I know I I read the adversary”
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Lives Other Than My Own
Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère is a deeply reflective non-fiction work that explores profound themes of grief, human connection, mortality, and resilience in the wake of tragedy.
Discussed“I think I read it right after I read lives other than my own which the story in that book even though it starts with the tsunami in Sri Lanka it still sort of becomes a story about these judges essentially living in France”
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Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Matt Young's book is called eat the apple and it's getting re reviews including one by Mark Boden author of black hackd down in the book review”
“including one by Mark Boden author of black hackd down”
“as someone who's written your own book um about criticism um Better Living Through criticism how to think about art pleasure Beauty and Truth”
“AO Scott reviewed this week in the book review Martin amos's new non-fiction collection called the rub of time”
“they you know they got a contract with Tim Ferris who's a huge bestselling author it's a 4our work week exactly Guru”
“the only other book I've read by baruma it was an early book of his called God's dust”
“the elizab withth wartel Girl Interrupted all these books that were talking about mental health”