Episode · The Book Review · 2021-06-25
Clint Smith on The Book Review: books mentioned
Clint Smith on ‘How the Word Is Passed’
Gilbert Cruz discussed How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith III and others, The Holly by Julian Rubinstein, and Counting descent by Clint Smith. Tina Jordan discussed Ulysses by James Joyce, and criticized Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, Collected Poems by William Blake and others, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, and Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Elizabeth Harris recommended The Vixen by Francine Prose, and discussed Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump Ph.D.. Greg Cowles discussed The collected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick. John Williams recommended Early work by Andrew Martin. Pamela Paul discussed No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood and The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How the Word Is Passed
How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith III is a critically acclaimed nonfiction exploration of the history and legacy of slavery across America through the lens of historical landmarks and monuments.
Discussed“Clint Smith will be here to talk about his best-selling book how the word is passed”
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The Holly
The Holly by Julian Rubinstein is a rigorous investigative book that delves into systemic urban issues, gang violence, and community activism centered around the shooting of an activist in a turbulent Denver neighborhood.
Discussed“Julian Rubenstein will be here to talk about his book The Holly”
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Counting descent
Discussed“your previous book was a poetry collection counting descent and I wanted to know how different it was writing a book of non-fiction”
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Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is a naturalistic novel that follows a young rural woman who moves to Chicago and later New York City to pursue the American dream, charting her journey through urban life, moral compromise, and changing social standing.
Critiqued“here's sister carry by Theodore drier it is a book one can very well get along without reading”
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Collected Poems
Critiqued“collected poem of William Butler Yates who would of course go on to win the Nobel in 1923 in 1896 Anonymous wrote that the volume was quote as discouraging as a breakfast of cold porridge”
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Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles the decline of a prosperous merchant family across four generations in northern Germany.
Critiqued“Thomas man buen Brooks what we gave a negative review to buen Brooks”
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Ulysses
James Joyce's landmark modernist novel Ulysses chronicles an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mapping human consciousness and daily existence through a revolutionary stream-of-consciousness technique.
Discussed“This was actually a signed review of ulyses by Dr Joseph Collins who called James Joyce's Masterwork quote the most important contribution perhaps that has been made to fictional literature”
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery is a beloved classic novel that tells the heartwarming story of an imaginative and spirited orphan girl sent to live with an elderly brother and sister on Prince Edward Island.
Critiqued“I have to tell you I almost cry over the an of green Gable one because we call an Shirley you know a humorless little Wai”
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Too Much and Never Enough
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L.
Discussed“there was a huge Surge from books about Trump there was the merry Trump book too much and never enough people were buying these books like crazy”
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The Vixen
The Vixen by Francine Prose is a historical novel set in 1950s New York that follows a young Harvard graduate editing a controversial book about Ethel and Julius Rosenberg amidst anticommunist hysteria.
Recommended“I just finished the Vixen by Francine Pros which we have a profile of her coming out next week um which is a book about Ethel Rosenberg the CIA and it's hilarious”
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The collected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Discussed“I mention it only to say that that book sent me off to um retrack down Elizabeth Hardwick's collected essays”
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Early work
Early work by Andrew Martin is a satirical debut novel that follows a lazy, aspiring young writer drifting through literary circles in New York City before moving to Iowa.
Recommended“I recently went back and read a novel that was getting a lot of attention what feels to me like last year but it turns out that it was three years ago which I guess is indicative of how we've all been living which is a first novel called early work by a writer named Andrew Martin”
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No One Is Talking About This
No Is Not Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood is a critically acclaimed debut novel that explores internet culture, modern digital existence, and profound personal tragedy.
Discussed“the two books are the Copenhagen Trilogy by Tova dlion and no one is talking about this by Patricia lockit”
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The Copenhagen Trilogy
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen is a raw, devastating autobiographical masterpiece that chronicles the Danish author's difficult childhood, early artistic ambitions, and eventual descent into severe drug addiction.
Discussed“the two books are the Copenhagen Trilogy by Tova dlion and no one is talking about this by Patricia lockit”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“one by Michael wolf whose book fire and fury set off the mega sales of trump books”
“I've been reading this new biography of Sylvia Plath called red comet by Heather Clark and that's not what I'm going to talk about here today”
“essay collected in a Hardwick collection called seduction and trail that I don't own but I do own the collected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”
“I think I have a copy of Seduction and betrayal laying around somewhere”
“you gave me conversations with friends which I have read and enjoyed”
“I had that same reaction with Magda uh Zabo the door right also great of course was excellent”