Episode · The Book Review · 2024-09-27
Books mentioned on Book Club: 'The Hypocrite,' by Jo Hamya
MJ Franklin recommended Daughter by Claudia Dey, and read The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya and Intermezzo by Sally Rooney for a book club. Joumana Khatib recommended Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday and Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot and others, and discussed Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood. Lauren Christensen recommended Liars by Sarah Manguso.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Hypocrite
Book club“I'm an editor here at the New York Times book review and for this month's book club we're talking about the hypocrite by Joe hamia”
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Life of the Mind
Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood is a contemporary novel that follows a modern academic navigating precarious employment, personal life, and bodily anxieties.
Discussed“and it also reminded me of the ending of the life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood which also involves some trash”
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Asymmetry
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday is a structurally innovative and critically acclaimed novel exploring power dynamics, ambition, and global politics through two seemingly distinct narratives that ultimately interconnect.
Recommended“hypothetically speaking I also really like Lisa halliday's novel asymmetry which I think is a fictionalized account”
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Life with Picasso
Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake is a biographical memoir detailing the author's turbulent decade-long relationship with the famous artist Pablo Picasso.
Recommended“but I think everybody should read life with Picasso by franois gillo”
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Liars
Liars is a darkly witty and psychologically astute novel by Sarah Manguso that explores the complex dynamics of marriage, female ambition, and domestic resentment from the perspective of a writer married to a visual artist.
Recommended“but I guess just in recent reading and viewing there's Dany senna's colored television as well as Sarah Mango's Liars which are both told from the perspectives of female writers who are married to artists”
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Daughter
Daughter by Claudia Dey is a contemporary novel exploring complex family dynamics, particularly the intense psychological terrain shared between a novelist father and his playwright daughter.
Recommended“the book that came to mind for me is Daughter by Claudia day”
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Intermezzo
Intermezzo is a contemporary novel by Sally Rooney that explores grief, complex family dynamics, and romantic entanglements through the lives of two estranged brothers.
Book club“and now is the time next month in October we're reading you guessed it intereso by Sally Rooney”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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