Episode · The Book Review · 2019-03-08
Books mentioned on A Violent Summer in Chicago
Pamela Paul discussed An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz, The Wall by John Lanchester, There are no children here by Alex Kotlowitz, Building stories by Chris Ware, Capital by John Lanchester, and Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro. Greg Cowles discussed Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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An American Summer
An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz is a poignant non-fiction book that explores love, death, and the heavy toll of gun violence in Chicago.
Discussed“Alex kotlowitz will be here to talk about his new book an American Summer Love and Death in Chicago”
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The Wall
Discussed“John Lanchester will be here to talk about his new novel The Wall”
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There are no children here
Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here is a powerful 1991 non-fiction book that chronicles the lives of two brothers growing up amidst extreme violence in Chicago's public housing.
Discussed“you know before we even begin to talk about the subject of this book which is very present day I want to start with with a book that you wrote several books ago that came out in 1991 There Are No Children Here I think everyone who read this book and obviously many people did I was a huge bestseller”
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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 want to go back to the other part of that origin story the novel that you were in the middle of because your previous book Capital was a kind of big sprawling novel looking at the economy and the property bubble and and this is this is a very taught fast-paced little book The Wall”
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Einstein's Dreams
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman is a short, imaginative novel by an MIT professor and physicist that playfully explores various alternate conceptions of time and its fundamental nature.
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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