Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2024-05-15
Tyler Cowen & Benjamin Moser: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons
Take our Listener Survey Benjamin Moser is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer celebrated for his in-depth studies of literary and cultural figures such as Susan Sontag and Clarice Lispector.
Benjamin Moser recommended Amsterdam stories, and discussed In a Free State and The world is what it is by Patrick French. Tyler Cowen discussed A Turn in the South by V. S. Naipaul, and criticized India: A Million Mutinies Now by V. S. Naipaul.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Amsterdam stories
Amsterdam Stories by Nescio is a collection of melancholy and lyrical tales capturing the spirit, landscape, and bohemian character of early twentieth-century Amsterdam through the eyes of its eccentric artists and dreamers.
Recommended“in the New York Review classics there s a book called I think it s called Amsterdam stories”
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In a Free State
Discussed“had to find my own way in the world to use the title of one of his novels”
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A Turn in the South
Discussed“when I read a turn in the South I greatly enjoyed it but over time I somehow grew not to like the book”
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
Critiqued“quite an interesting book but ultimately not willing to understand what makes India work”
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The world is what it is
The World Is What It Is by Patrick French is an acclaimed, exhaustively researched 2008 biography of the Nobel laureate writer V.S.
Discussed“well no there's a Patrick French biography called the world is what it is”
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