Episode · The Book Review · 2023-08-18
Amor Towles on The Book Review: books mentioned
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Gilbert Cruz recommended Slow Horses by Mick Herron, and discussed Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 by Amor Towles, Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, Table for Two by Amor Towles, and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Amor Towles discussed A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Sarah Lyall discussed A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
Discussed“so your recent piece in the book reviews Thriller issue is adapted from your introduction to the mysterious Bookshop presents the best mystery stories of the Year 2023 which is going to be published in September”
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A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is a celebrated historical novel that follows an aristocratic Russian count who is sentenced to spend the remainder of his life inside a luxury hotel by a Bolshevik tribunal.
Discussed“but for my novel a gentleman in Moscow Otto really loved the book and so he included it in his first editions Club the year that it came out”
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Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles is a celebrated historical fiction novel that follows a young woman navigating high society in New York City during the late 1930s.
Discussed“CU in in 2011 You released Rules of Civility and you've had a pretty extraordinary run since then it was followed by gentleman of Moscow in the Lincoln Highway”
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The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a historical novel that follows a young man driving cross-country in 1954 America alongside several unexpected companions.
Discussed“CU in in 2011 You released Rules of Civility and you've had a pretty extraordinary run since then it was followed by gentleman of Moscow in the Lincoln Highway”
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Slow Horses
Slow Horses by Mick Herron is a sharp espionage thriller that follows the MI5 rejects stationed at Slough House.
Recommended“and you have alighted this summer also on someone that I am reading I started reading him after watching the Apple TV series and I can't wait to get through as many of his books as possible who is that what is this book I'm looking at and it was the same thing for me as Mick Haron and what”
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Table for Two
Table for Two by Amor Towles is a collection of short stories and novellas encompassing both urban narratives set in New York and tales situated in Hollywood.
Discussed“I just want to talk about your next book which I know you're working on it's called table for two well that's done”
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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is a classic hardboiled detective novel that revolutionized the crime fiction genre with its gritty realism, morally ambiguous characters, and iconic protagonist, Sam Spade.
Discussed“listen to another book podcast that's called backlisted for listeners and and for you amore it's a great podcast out of England that's run for many years in which they talk about old books they bring on two or three people and they did an episode on the maltes Falcon”
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A Pocketful of Happiness
Discussed“so let's talk about this wonderful book which is really life affirming even though its subject is so sad it's called a pocket full of Happiness”
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a beloved 19th-century children's fantasy novel about a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a bizarre underground world governed by absurd logic.
Discussed“and that brings us to the book that you've mentioned that you would like to talk about and I'm so thrilled to talk about it because it's a book I read a lot as a child as well it's one of the great examples of absurdus literature it's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“first I'll be speaking to Amore tols author of the best-selling books Rules of Civility a gentleman in Moscow and the Lincoln Highway”
“first I'll be speaking to Amore tols author of the best-selling books Rules of Civility a gentleman in Moscow and the Lincoln Highway”
“first I'll be speaking to Amore tols author of the best-selling books Rules of Civility a gentleman in Moscow and the Lincoln Highway”
“and then as part of a recurring segment here on the podcast discusses the book he has read most in his life Louis Carol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
“he first talks about his new Memoir a pocket full of happiness and then as part of a recurring segment here on the podcast discusses the book he has read most in his life”
“I'm Sarah Lyle from The New York Times and I'm joined by the British actor Richard E Grant the author of a new Memoir a pocket full of happiness”