Episode · The Book Review · 2019-10-11
Books mentioned on Are Cheap Clothes Ruining the Planet?
Pamela Paul discussed Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas, Beaten Down, Worked Up by Steven Greenhouse, The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, and Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch, and criticized The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Elisabeth Egan recommended Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Fashionopolis
Discussed“Dana Thomas will join us to talk about her new book fashionopolis the price of fast fashion and the future of clothes”
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Beaten Down, Worked Up
Discussed“Steven Greenhouse will be here to talk about his book beaten down worked up the past present and future of American labor”
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Erosion
Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams is a powerful collection of essays examining the environmental and cultural undoing of the American landscape.
Recommended“it's called erosion it's by Terry Tempest Williams and the subtitle is essays of undoing”
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy's classic novel The Mayor of Casterbridge was referenced across multiple episodes of The Book Review in July 2024.
Discussed“well I I am still reading the mayor of casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and enjoying it immensely”
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Critiqued“unlike some books that are written in serial my one of my least favorite books the pck papers by Dickens is like the prime example of this”
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Because Internet
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch is a popular linguistics book that explores how digital communication has fundamentally shifted modern rules of language.
Discussed“um and the other book that I read was a book by a someone who was a guest earlier on the show Gretchen mulf um she wrote the book because internet”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she is the author of gods and Kings and Delux and her new book is called fashionopolis the price of fast fashion and the future of clothes”
“she is the author of gods and Kings and Delux and her new book is called fashionopolis”
“I've read the first book in a three book Trilogy that was recently released in the UK called well there are three books called childhood Youth and dependency by Tove dson a Danish writer”
“I would describe the book as a hybrid of Annie Dillard's a writer's life and Joan dian's a year of magical thinking”
“I would describe the book as a hybrid of Annie Dillard's a writer's life and Joan dian's a year of magical thinking”
“I don't like you know like Steven Pinker um the language Instinct”