Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Amy Schumer on ‘Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Citizen
Discussed“I'd say one of the people who was groundbreaking in bringing it to the Forefront of poetry was Claudia rank Keen her book citizen that um did so super well it was it was a New York Times besteller”
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A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun
Discussed“and Ang Jackson I think in this sort of in celebration of first Centennial a lot of books have come out including these two anthologies and Angela Jackson wrote a really great bio about her uh called a surprise Queen Hood in the New Black Sun”
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Annie Allen
Discussed“and so she a lot of her poems cover just like what does it mean to fall in love what is it like to move and and I think that's what the bulk of Annie Allen her first her second sorry her second um collection and the one that won her the poitz is really about”
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Exit West
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid is a contemporary magical realist novel that explores migration, refugees, and global upheaval through the lens of a couple fleeing a war-torn country.
Discussed“so I was at the uh beach in New Jersey over the weekend and I borrowed a copy of Mosen Hamed's recent novel exit West what did you think I really liked it”
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New people
Discussed“so then I started reading on the train back I started reading this new novel which I believe has just been published by danz Senna called new people”
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Caucasia
Discussed“I really like I loved her first novel caucasia which I think was published about 15 years ago”
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The Kingdom
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère is a sweeping and introspective work exploring the origins and early days of Christianity through historical analysis and personal narrative.
Discussed“the one that I'm reading now is one that none of them have talked about yet it's his new book The Kingdom which I I have to say it's the first career that I've read and I'm I'm about 50 pages in”
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The Idiot
The Idiot by Elif Batuman is a brilliant coming-of-age novel that follows a young woman navigating her freshman year at Harvard and her nascent, epistolary romance with an older student.
Discussed“so I've actually just finished El batuman the idiot having never read the DVI I now am moved to for the first time so I guess she's gotten me over that hump uh which is a Real Testament to her”
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Conversations With Friends
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney is a critically acclaimed contemporary debut novel exploring the intricate relationships among a group of young adults in Ireland.
Discussed“interestingly right after I finished that book picked up conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney”
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Wave
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala is a harrowing and deeply moving memoir documenting the author's survival of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which tragically claimed the lives of her entire family, including her husband, two children, and parents.
Discussed“so this starts out in precisely that sweet spot for me but career and his family are not directly affected by the tsunami but they are surrounded by people whose lives are and thus the title lives other than my own and in a way the entire book is an exploration of how people's lives are linked to others and”
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“Amy Schumer joins us now and she is not only Amy Schumer but she is also the author of The Girl with the lower back tattoo which is now out in paperback”