Episode · The Book Review · 2021-10-08
Andrea Elliott on The Book Review: books mentioned
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Pamela Paul recommended The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina, and discussed Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson. Phoebe Robinson discussed You Can't Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson. Elizabeth Harris discussed Memory of departure by Abdulrazak Gurnah and Pilgrims way by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Greg Cowles discussed Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen, Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney and others, and The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos. John Williams discussed The Magician by Colm Tóibín and The Master by Colm Tóibín.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson is a witty and observant essay collection that tackles contemporary cultural norms, race, pop culture, and personal boundaries.
Discussed“her new book is called please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes”
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You Can't Touch My Hair
Discussed“so we met and I told him about my idea for my first book you can't touch my hair”
Where to get it
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Memory of departure
Discussed“he lives in Britain and has written several books about the Immigrant experience in Britain including memory of departure and Pilgrim's way”
Where to get it
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Pilgrims way
Discussed“he lives in Britain and has written several books about the Immigrant experience in Britain including memory of departure and Pilgrim's way”
Where to get it
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Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen's novel "Crossroads" is a sprawling domestic drama set during the early 1970s that delves deep into the moral crises and religious yearnings of a suburban Chicago family.
Discussed“that's Jonathan fransen's Crossroads the main character is the associate pastor at a church and the whole setting millia of the book takes place against this church”
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney is a contemporary novel exploring the romantic and intellectual lives, friendships, and existential anxieties of four characters in their thirties.
Discussed“and then Sally Rooney's beautiful world where are you which has a a prominent character in it who's a practicing faithful Catholic”
Where to get it
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The Diary of a Country Priest
Discussed“so the Diary of a country priest it's exactly what the title says it is it's a novel but it's written as the year-long Journal of a young Catholic parish priest”
Where to get it
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The Magician
The Magician by Colm Tóibín is a historical fiction novel that offers a novelized chronicle of the life of the celebrated German author Thomas Mann.
Discussed“I am just about finished with colum Tobin's new novel The Magician which he talked about recently on the podcast”
Where to get it
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The Master
The Master is a 2004 biographical novel by Colm Tóibín that imagines several years in the complex life and inner world of acclaimed author Henry James.
Discussed“it follows the well it doesn't follow directly but it is similar in a sense to Tobin's 2004 novel The Master which was about a few years in the life of Henry James”
Where to get it
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The Outlaw Ocean
The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina is an investigative journalism book that documents lawlessness, criminality, and human rights abuses across the world's poorly regulated international waters.
Recommended“so the book is called The Outlaw ocean Journeys across the last Untamed Frontier by Ian urina who is a former investigative reporter for the New York Times”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (15) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“it is ridden up to 116th Street with Colum students reading ba wolf in its native Anglo-Saxon”
“and it all came about because when she was figuring out her press run for becoming she wanted T do Queens to be the one bit of non-traditional interview”
“Shanda Rines I guess Malcolm glav I don't know outliers wasn't necessarily an essay”
“we also got the national book award finalists this week which includes Cloud cucko Land by Anthony der matrix by Lauren grath and zory by lar hunt”
“we also got the national book award finalists this week which includes Cloud cucko Land by Anthony der matrix by Lauren grath and zory by lar hunt”
“in the fiction category in non-fiction a little devil in America by hanif ABD duib and Grace Cho tastes like War a memoir”
“in the fiction category in non-fiction a little devil in America by hanif ABD duib and Grace Cho tastes like War a memoir”
“and then in poetry we have what noise against the cane by Desiree Bailey and floaters by Martin Espada”
“and then in poetry we have what noise against the cane by Desiree Bailey and floaters by Martin Espada”
“reminded me of another book I talked about on the podcast last year John Burger's Pig Earth which was also about rural France the peasantry and the encroachment of modern times”
“it is listeners to that episode will know the life or a novel based on the life of the German writer Thomas man who won the Nobel Prize and wrote The Magic Mountain and bden Brooks and Death in Venice”
“it is listeners to that episode will know the life or a novel based on the life of the German writer Thomas man who won the Nobel Prize and wrote The Magic Mountain and bden Brooks and Death in Venice”
“it is listeners to that episode will know the life or a novel based on the life of the German writer Thomas man who won the Nobel Prize and wrote The Magic Mountain and bden Brooks and Death in Venice”
“I read Diary of a country priest by George bernanos”
“I read the magician by colum toin”