Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Amy Chozick on 'Chasing Hillary'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Chasing Hillary
Discussed“Amy chk is my colleag here at the times and also the now best-selling author of chasing Hillary 10 years two presidential campaigns and one intact glass ceiling”
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The Boys on the Bus
The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse is a classic piece of journalistic non-fiction that chronicles the intense experiences of reporters covering the 1972 presidential campaign.
Discussed“and how you look at these books Richard Ben Kramer is what it takes about 88 and the boys on the bus and there was this camaraderie with the candidate and and their AIDS and it's just changed”
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A Higher Loyalty
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership is a memoir by former FBI Director James Comey that offers an inside look at leadership, institutional norms, and his high-profile interactions with political figures, including Donald Trump.
Discussed“at number one Higher loyalty by James Comey and I'm just going to do the the sort of very overtly political books”
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The Mars Room
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner is a gritty contemporary novel that explores the harsh realities of the American prison system through the eyes of an inmate serving multiple life sentences.
Discussed“Rachel Kushner our cover review this week debuts at number four with the Mars room which is really that's a high debut for a literary book”
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The perfect mother
Discussed“Amy Malloy the perfect mother and Tina I think both you and I read that book we did and it's a debut novel from a woman who's I think ghost written a fair amount of non-fiction and it's about a kidnapped baby in a mommy group in Brooklyn and she lives in Brooklyn and got the idea when she had”
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“so now I'm going to have that new Emily Wilson uh translation on my that that may be next for me after ulyses”
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All who go do not return
Discussed“one was a memoir by um the writer schulam Dean he's a journalist and a former hidic kind of ultra conservative Orthodox Jew who was expelled from the the htic sect that he belonged to in in New York state for heresy and the name of his Memoir which was published by Greywolf a few years ago was all who”
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Love and ruin
Discussed“the other book that I read recently was Paula McLean's new novel love and ruin”
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The Paris wife
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain is a historical fiction novel that portrays the complex marriage between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley Richardson, as well as his subsequent relationship with Pauline Pfeiffer.
Discussed“Paula mlan of course wrote The Paris wife about Ernest Hemingway's marriage to Hadley Richardson and and second marriage to Pauline feifer”
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Country dark
Discussed“so I'm reading this book country dark by Chris offet and Greg”
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Prostitute Laundry
Discussed“I'm reading prostitute laundry by Charlotte Shane who is I mean I guess a Brooklyn Bas writer”
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Bluets
Discussed“where she's talking about Maggie NE Nelson's bluettes and she says at one point Maggie says clearly I'm not a private person”
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Odyssey : a Father, a Son and an Epic
Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic is a moving and deeply personal memoir by Daniel Mendelsohn, a classics professor at Bard College, recounting a journey taken with his aging father.
Discussed“he's a Classics professor at Bard College and this book is called an odyssey a father a son and an epic”
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey by Homer is an ancient Greek epic poem that follows the arduous ten-year journey of Odysseus returning home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
Recommended“so now I'm going to have that new Emily Wilson uh translation on my that that may be next for me after ulyses”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Ronan faraoh with his book War on peace is number three”
“at number eight The Assault on intelligence Michael Hayden's book debuts”
“Michael Hayden's book debuts Obama by Pete Souza is on the list”
“suicide of the west by Jonah Goldberg godsave Texas by Lawrence Wright and Russian Roulette by Michael isakov and David Korn at number 15”
“suicide of the west by Jonah Goldberg godsave Texas by Lawrence Wright and Russian Roulette by Michael isakov and David Korn at number 15”
“suicide of the west by Jonah Goldberg godsave Texas by Lawrence Wright and Russian Roulette by Michael isakov and David Korn at number 15”
“he has a Story collection called Kentucky straight”
“he has a memoir um called the same river twice about growing up in really kind of the Backwoods um but he made his way out of that”