Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Alan Cumming Talks About ‘Baggage’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Not My Father's Son
Alan Cumming’s memoir Not My Father's Son delves into the actor's painful childhood, family secrets, and the complicated relationship he shared with his abusive father.
Discussed“and I think the reason I write I wrote this book I think it is a reaction to not my Father's son”
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Baggage
Discussed“the actor author screenwriter and performer will be here to talk about his latest book baggage”
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R.E. Lee
Discussed“and the the climax of that comes in the 1930s when Douglas soual Freeman produces his enormous four volume re Le which wins the Pitzer prize”
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The marble man
Discussed“in 1977 Thomas Connell published a book entitled The Marble man which really was very critical of Lee”
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Our Country Friends
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart is a pandemic-era novel that follows a group of friends who isolate together in a country house as the world shuts down.
Recommended“I reviewed our country Friends by Gary steinart and Alexander”
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Discussed“yeah I am his first novel called the Russian debutants handbook and it was it kind of made a splash”
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Super Sad True Love Story
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart is a satirical dystopian novel that portrays a collapsing America dominated by ubiquitous social media, digital overexposure, and a cryptic corporate-fascist political regime.
Discussed“but the book he wrote that really got me on the shineart bus was called super sad true love story”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Midnight Sun
“there was only a dip at haset book group where sales declined 9% and that was largely according to the publisher because of Stephanie Meyer's midnight sun which came out in 2020”
Passing A Room with a View
“well the one the one I remember most was a room with view based on the EM Forster novel which I saw”
Passing Slaves of New York
“and the fact is they really did a t they actually did TMA yit's slaves of New York”