Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on A Violent Summer in Chicago
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Wall
Discussed“and and this is this is a very taught fast-paced little book The Wall”
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There are no children here
There are no children here by Alex Kotlowitz is a powerful work of investigative journalism that chronicles the lives of two boys growing up in a Chicago public housing project.
Discussed“because all of us again are still caring about pharaoh and Lafayette from There Are No Children Here”
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Building stories
Building Stories by Chris Ware is an innovative and terrain-shifting graphic novel published in 2012 that is famously packaged as a box set containing a variety of print formats.
Discussed“that was the name of one of his major books right building stor”
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Capital
Discussed“I suppose it's not quite as sprawling as capital and it's not quite as focused as a wall”
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Einstein's Dreams
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman is a philosophical novel that explores alternative conceptions of time through a series of dream sequences experienced by Albert Einstein in 1905.
Discussed“and also just kind of the nature of time in a way it put me in mind of the Alan Lightman novel Einstein's dreams which plays with different Notions of what time is and is it circular or spiraling and you or linear the way that we experience it”
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Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate by Robert A.
Discussed“I made a mistake actually last week which I want to swiftly correct which is I said that this book master of the Senate by Robert Caro came out in 2012 it did not it came out in 2002”
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