Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2024-05-15
Books mentioned on 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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Amsterdam stories
Amsterdam Stories is a collection of evocative modernist sketches and tales that capture the melancholy atmosphere and distinct neighborhoods of the Dutch capital during the early twentieth century.
Recommended“in the New York Review classics there s a book called I think it s called Amsterdam stories”
Where to get it
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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”
Where to get it
