Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Andrea Elliott on ‘Invisible Child’
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.
Recommended“that was Phoebe reading from her new essay collection 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”
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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”
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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”
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Crossroads
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen is an expansive contemporary novel that delves into the intricate dynamics of a suburban Chicago family and their church group during the turbulent social landscape of the early 1970s.
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 that examines the romantic and philosophical entanglements of four interconnected characters navigating friendship, art, and modern anxiety.
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”
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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”
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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”
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The Master
The Master by Colm Tóibín is a celebrated biographical novel that reimagines a crucial period in the life of the renowned 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”
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Other mentions in this episode (15) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Beowulf
“it is ridden up to 116th Street with Colum students reading ba wolf in its native Anglo-Saxon”
Passing Becoming
“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”
Passing Outliers
“Shanda Rines I guess Malcolm glav I don't know outliers wasn't necessarily an essay”
Passing Cloud Cuckoo Land
“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”
Passing Matrix
“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”
Passing A Little Devil in America
“in the fiction category in non-fiction a little devil in America by hanif ABD duib and Grace Cho tastes like War a memoir”
Passing Tastes Like War
“in the fiction category in non-fiction a little devil in America by hanif ABD duib and Grace Cho tastes like War a memoir”
Passing Floaters
“and then in poetry we have what noise against the cane by Desiree Bailey and floaters by Martin Espada”
Passing What Noise Against the Cane
“and then in poetry we have what noise against the cane by Desiree Bailey and floaters by Martin Espada”
Passing Pig Earth
“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”
Passing Buddenbrooks
“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”
Passing 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”
Passing The Magic Mountain
“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”
Passing The Diary of a Country Priest
“I read Diary of a country priest by George bernanos”
Passing The Magician
“I read the magician by colum toin”