Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-07-21
Ezra Klein & Barbara Kingsolver: books mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show
Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
Ezra Klein discussed David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Barbara Kingsolver recommended Dopesick by Beth Macy, Raising Lazarus by Beth Macy, and Pod by Laline Paull, and discussed Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is a classic 1850 semi-autobiographical novel that follows the emotional and professional maturation of its titular hero from an impoverished childhood to adulthood.
Discussed“and this is a novel that is following Loosely in the structure of David Copperfield by Dickens”
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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 harrowing chronicle of the opioid epidemic and the pharmaceutical companies that fueled addiction in America.
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 deeply reported piece of investigative journalism that examines the ongoing American opioid epidemic and the heroic community efforts combating it.
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
“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”
“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”