Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-07-21
Books mentioned on Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens’s enduring masterpiece, David Copperfield, is a sweeping Victorian bildungsroman that follows the tumultuous life, moral maturation, and professional struggles of its eponymous hero from childhood to adulthood.
Discussed“no but I took David Copperfield as my template and I just laid my book right over it because it worked so well”
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Shiloh and other stories
Discussed“someone actually gave me Bobby Ann Mason's short Story collection Shiloh and Other Stories which was a very big book that year in the world she's from Kentucky”
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Shiloh
Discussed“someone actually gave me Bobby Ann Mason's short Story collection Shiloh and Other Stories which was a very big book that year in the world she's from Kentucky”
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Dopesick
Dopesick by Beth Macy is a rigorous work of investigative journalism that chronicles the devastating origins and escalation of the American opioid epidemic, focusing heavily on Purdue Pharma, corporate corruption, regulatory failures, and the human toll on affected communities.
Recommended“Purdue Pharma the attorneys and the DEA and all of that big story has broken and it's been told beautifully by a handful of journalists have done a great job of cracking and telling us that story Beth Macy among them with her fantastic book dope sick”
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Raising Lazarus
Raising Lazarus by Beth Macy is a piece of journalism examining the contemporary reality of the American opioid epidemic.
Recommended“I recommend Beth Macy's follow-up to Dope Sick which is called raising Lazarus it's a great piece of Journalism on where we are now with this epidemic”
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Pod
Pod by Laline Paull is a novel set entirely within the ocean environment.
Recommended“it's called pod by lalene Paul and it's set entirely in the ocean it's not Science Fiction”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Bean Trees
“and she told the story and that was The Bean Trees it was the first fiction I wrote that was successful because I had decided to own myself my Appalachian background”
Own book Demon Copperhead
“and I will say here as the disclaimer I always make you do not have to read David Copperfield before or after you read demon Copperhead”