Episode · The Book Review · 2018-05-11
Amy Chozick on The Book Review: books mentioned
Amy Chozick on 'Chasing Hillary'
Gilbert Cruz discussed Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick. Amy Chozick discussed The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse and What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer. Pamela Paul discussed A Higher Loyalty by James Comey and others, The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner, The perfect mother by Aimee Molloy, Odyssey : a Father, a Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn, and The Odyssey. Greg Cowles discussed Ulysses by James Joyce, All who go do not return by Shulem Deen, Love and ruin by Paula McLain, and The Paris wife by Paula McLain. Tina Jordan discussed Country dark by Chris Offutt. Lovia Gyarkye discussed Prostitute Laundry by Charlotte Shane and Bluets by Maggie Nelson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Chasing Hillary
Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick is a journalistic memoir chronicling a decade of presidential campaign reporting, two major political runs, and the enduring barriers women face in politics.
Discussed“Amy chosak discusses her new Memoir chasing Hillary”
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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, camaraderie-filled experiences of the reporters who covered the 1972 United States 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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What It Takes
What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer is a political journalism classic that follows multiple presidential candidates through the grueling primaries of the 1988 election.
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”
Where to get it
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A Higher Loyalty
A Higher Loyalty by James Comey is a high-profile political memoir by the former FBI director that chronicles his career in public service, his handling of sensitive investigations, and his interactions with political leaders 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”
Where to get it
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The Mars Room
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner is a gritty, critically acclaimed contemporary novel that explores the bleak realities of the American women's prison system through the eyes of an inmate named Romy Hall.
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
James Joyce's landmark modernist novel Ulysses chronicles an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mapping human consciousness and daily existence through a revolutionary stream-of-consciousness technique.
Discussed“I have stalled on ulses I was very publicly reading James Joyce's Ulisses for the sake of the podcast and now I'm very publicly failing to read ulyses on the podcast”
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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 by Daniel Mendelsohn is a deeply moving memoir that recounts the extraordinary journey of a classicist professor and his eighty-one-year-old father, who chose to audit his undergraduate seminar on Homer's Odyssey.
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 epic ancient Greek poem that follows the arduous ten-year journey of Odysseus as he attempts to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, encountering mythical creatures, divine wrath, and numerous trials along the way.
Discussed“ask if he could enroll himself in Daniel Mendelson's freshman seminar on the Odyssey and and take a class with him um and he would come up from Long Island to Bard in Upstate New York and sit in on the seminar along with freshman students”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Ronan faraoh with his book War on peace is number three”
“fascism a warning by meline albre with Bill Woodward is number four”
“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”