Episode · The Book Review · 2025-04-04
Books mentioned on Colum McCann on Undersea Cables and His New Novel "Twist"
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Twist
Discussed“to be honest with this book with twist which came first the cables or the characters cables came first”
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Letters to a young writer
Discussed“But also, interestingly, in that book, Letters to Young Writer, that you quote, I also said that plot is juvenile.”
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F.
Discussed“We are in April 2025, which marks the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby. that there definitely are echoes of that book in here.”
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Underworld
Underworld is a sprawling, multi-layered masterpiece by Don DeLillo that examines the second half of the twentieth century in America through the lens of a single baseball and a trajectory of waste, nuclear threat, and cultural anxiety.
Discussed“And so for me one of the the great novels along with Ulisses and there are a few others and in fact I would I I would venture to say that Underworld by Don Dilo is one of the other great novels of the 20th century.”
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“And I do I do think if you didn't talk about Ulisses, it's 24 hours and walking around. That's the plot of the book.”
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