Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-11-28
Books mentioned on Best Of: This Is Your Brain on Deep Reading. It’s Pretty Magnificent.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain
Discussed“it was a book called PR and the squid the story and science of the reading brain I realized that there was nothing in the brain”
Where to get it
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The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse is a philosophical novel that explores an intellectual elite engaged in a complex, meditative game uniting all branches of knowledge and art.
Discussed“tell me about reading Herman hesses magas Ludy again”
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How We Read Now
Discussed“I have been doing a lot of work with colleagues like Naomi Baron who has an Oxford book called How we read now”
Where to get it
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World and town
World and Town by Gish Jen is a perceptive novel that explores community, cultural dislocation, and the intricate dynamics of human relationships in a changing American landscape.
Recommended“but I would really actually want to say that my favorite was her book World in town in which like few other people she helps us understand”
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Standing by words
Standing by Words by Wendell Berry is a collection of essays that explores the deep connections between language, morality, agriculture, and the health of human communities and the natural environment.
Recommended“the third will be very difficult for me because it's something between Wendell Barry standing by words and John Dunn the Theologian”
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot is widely regarded as a masterwork of Victorian literature, brilliantly capturing the complex social fabric, political undercurrents, and psychological depths of provincial English life.
Recommended“Middlemarch is your favorite book so I have to say that at the end I love it”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she's the author of PR and the squid the story and science of the reading brain and of reader come home”