Episode · The Book Review · 2021-06-11
Books mentioned on A More Perfect Union
Tina Jordan discussed And now to-morrow by Rachel Field and The last time I saw Paris by Elliot Paul. Jim Hoberman discussed Hollywood's Censor by Thomas Patrick Doherty. Pamela Paul discussed Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks. Alexandra Alter discussed Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand and Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. Elisabeth Egan recommended Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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And now to-morrow
Discussed“but in New York anyway that week the number one novel was something called and now tomorrow by Rachel field and it's about a DE Aris”
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The last time I saw Paris
Discussed“and Elliot Paul's the last time I saw Paris was number one on the non-fiction list”
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Hollywood's Censor
Discussed“well there's one that is I think it's going to appear online but it's not going to be in the uh paper that was a book called Hollywood's censor by uh Thomas Dy and it was a kind of biography or you know in terms of film industry of Joseph ibr who was the head of the production code in”
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Lulu in Hollywood
Discussed“in fact you only have one and it's by Louise Brooks Lulu in Hollywood”
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Golden Girl
Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand is a popular summer read novel set in Nantucket where a novelist dies at the beginning of the story.
Discussed“so this week there was a controversy surrounding the work of the author Ellen hilderbrand she's a very popular author and known for her summer reads and her latest novel golden girl takes place in in Tucket where a lot of her work is set”
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Discussed“in this case it was Casey mcquiston red white and royal blue which is a gay romance novel”
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Malibu Rising
Malibu Rising is a contemporary drama by Taylor Jenkins Reid that chronicles twenty-four hours in the lives of four famous siblings during an annual end-of-summer party that ultimately ends in devastation and explosive family revelations.
Recommended“actually I just finished so I'm kind of cheating a book called Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reed which I predict will be one of the big books books of the summer and is the perfect book to pick up if you're trying to get into the mindset of the season”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he is the author of several books including the sushi economy globalization and the making of a modern delicacy the victory lab the secret science of winning campaigns outpatients the astonishing new world of medical tourism and his new book the engagement America's quarter Century struggle over same-sex marriage”
“they are naming names by Victor naski the former editor of the nation from reverence to rape by the film critic Molly Haskell and Tom's Coons Milad mammies and Bucks by Donald Bogle”
“they are naming names by Victor naski the former editor of the nation from reverence to rape by the film critic Molly Haskell and Tom's Coons Milad mammies and Bucks by Donald Bogle”
“and those three books are 1960s the Stars by Edgar Moran the movie Mughal by Philip French from 1969 and a book we mentioned earlier easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter bisc”
“he actually makes an appearance in another one of Taylor Jenkins Reeds books called the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo”