Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on David Mitchell's Vast and Tangled Universe
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Utopia Avenue
Discussed“Utopia Avenue why don't you tell us about the new book what is what is this novel”
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The Biggest Bluff
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova is a compelling non-fiction book that chronicles the author's journey from a complete poker novice to a professional player while exploring the intersections of psychology, luck, decision-making, and self-mastery.
Recommended“but the book again is called the biggest Bluff how I learn to pay attention master myself and win by Maria kova”
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Black Swan Green
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel following a stuttering adolescent boy growing up in rural England during the Falklands War.
Discussed“you know I actually liked Black Swan green the sort of coming of age story which seems to be autobiographical”
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Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is a sprawling, structurally ambitious novel by David Stephen Mitchell that weaves together multiple interconnected narratives across vastly different historical eras and locations.
Discussed“I loved Cloud Atlas which I remember reading on a transatlantic flight and I was like a crack addict”
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Ghostwritten
Ghostwritten is a structurally inventive debut novel by David Mitchell that weaves together multiple seemingly unrelated narratives spanning across the globe from Tokyo to New York.
Discussed“ghost written is still my favorite”
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Number9Dream
Discussed“and I was as I was by Cloud Atlas one of his subsequent books number nine dream”
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a historical novel by David Mitchell set within the closed trading post of Dejima in Nagasaki during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Critiqued“it's actually a character from the Thousand autumns of yakob deser pops up in this book”
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The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is a sprawling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that chronicles the tumultuous life of a young boy who survives a terrorist bombing at an art museum that claims his mother's life, clinging secretly to a famous painting.
Discussed“I remember your review of The Goldfinch the Donna tart novel”
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The confidence game
The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova is an engaging non-fiction exploration of con artists, the psychology of deception, and the reasons why ordinary people repeatedly fall victim to scams.
Discussed“your previous book as you've mentioned was called The Confidence Game”
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Too Much and Never Enough
Discussed“number one is Mary Trump's book too much and never enough and she is Donald Trump's niece”
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The Room Where It Happened
The Room Where It Happened by John R.
Discussed“the second is the room where it happened John Bolton's book”
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Hamnet
Hamnet is a deeply moving historical novel by Maggie O'Farrell that imagines the domestic life of William Shakespeare and the profound grief surrounding the death of his young son.
Discussed“I'm getting into a little bit of a Shakespeare mood and the reason is there's a book that's coming out very soon like this week or next week that's got a lot of buzz by an Irish writer named Maggie oeral called hamnet which is kind of a biographical look at Shakespeare's life and especially his wife and his son”
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
Shakespeare in a Divided America is a non-fiction book by James Shapiro that examines how various political and cultural factions in the United States have weaponized Shakespearean plays to fight contemporary culture wars.
Recommended“I'm reading Shakespeare in a divided America by James Shapiro”
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The fire next time
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin is a searing and brilliant collection of essays examining race, religion, and American identity through letters and personal reflection.
Recommended“I'm reading the fire next time by James Baldwin and I read save me the plums by Ruth reel”
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Save Me the Plums
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl is a luminous culinary memoir that details the author's transformative tenure as the editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine during a time of immense cultural and digital shift in media.
Recommended“I'm reading the fire next time by James Baldwin and I read save me the plums by Ruth reel”
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Other mentions in this episode (13) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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“you've got Don dilo's great Jon Street Rody Doyle's the commitments Jonathan leams you don't love me yet”
“you've got Don dilo's great Jon Street Rody Doyle's the commitments Jonathan leams you don't love me yet”
“so I think you were last year for about four years ago for your previous book The Confidence scheme”
“I did this for The Confidence Game my last book”
“he had a couple of books I think in between this and a previous book that he edited for the library of America called Shakespeare and America”
“he had a couple of books I think in between this and a previous book that he edited for the library of America called Shakespeare and America”
“this new book is called Shakespeare and a divided America and and that book was a collection of pieces looking at similarly the reception of of Shakespeare in America from 1776 to the present day”
“and the one that I'm going to talk about this week is James Baldwin's the fire next time which a lot of people have been talking about for not just the the past couple of months in America but also since tanasi coats I think sort of modeled his book between the world and me after part of this book”
“and the one that I'm going to talk about this week is James Baldwin's the fire next time which a lot of people have been talking about for not just the the past couple of months in America but also since tanasi coats I think sort of modeled his book between the world and me after part of this book”
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“I think her most well-known Memoirs are tender at the bone and comfort me with apples”
“I think her most well-known Memoirs are tender at the bone and comfort me with apples”