Episode · The Book Review · 2017-01-27
Books mentioned on From Brooklyn to the Gulag
Pamela Paul discussed Arthur & Sherlock by Michael Sims. Alexandra Alter discussed 1984 by George Orwell, It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, and The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick and others. Michael Sims discussed A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle and Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle. Jennifer Szalai discussed Right and left ; The legend of the holy drinker by Joseph Roth and The Spider's Web by Joseph Roth. Gal Beckerman discussed At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell and Irrational man by William Barrett. Elida Becker discussed How To Be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman, Into the Nest by Laura Erickson and others, and The Love Lives of Birds by Laura Erickson. Also mentioned: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, Arthur and Sherlock by Michael Sims, and The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Arthur & Sherlock
Discussed“Michael Sims will tell us about his new book Arthur and Sherlock”
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme surveillance, historical denial, and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“and so to a lot of other people it seems like there's been a massive surge in sales for Orwell's classic novel 1984”
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It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is a 1935 political satire and dystopian novel that explores the rise of fascism in the United States and the election of a demagogic American president.
Discussed“another book that has picked up in sales is it can't happen here by Sinclair Lewis”
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Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic dystopian science fiction novel that depicts a technologically advanced future society controlled through engineered reproduction, psychological conditioning, and constant superficial pleasure.
Discussed“Brave New World by Aldis Huxley has risen to number nine”
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The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth is a prominent alternate history novel that imagines an America turning toward fascism during World War II following the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh.
Discussed“do you happen to know um if there's been any spike in sales for Philip Roth's alternate history the plot against America”
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel about a totalitarian society where women's rights are stripped away and a select few are forced into reproductive servitude.
Discussed“it's number 23 is the handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood”
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The Man in the High Castle
Philip K.
Discussed“and another book with a recent TV adaptation that I think is also seeing a spike in sales is the man in the High Castle the Philip K dick dystopian Nazi based”
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Arthur and Sherlock
Arthur and Sherlock by Michael Sims is a nonfiction book that explores the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and the real-world inspirations behind his famous detective creation.
Discussed“his latest book is called Arthur and Sherlock Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes”
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A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet is Arthur Conan Doyle's foundational 1887 detective novel that introduced the legendary fictional character Sherlock Holmes to the reading public.
Discussed“and a study in Scarlet the first book Is Not the very best of the the Holmes Adventures”
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Silver Blaze
Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle is a classic 1892 short story featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of a famous racehorse and the murder of its trainer.
Discussed“I think my favorite has to be um Silver Blaze the one about the the missing racehorse”
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Right and left ; The legend of the holy drinker
Discussed“but at right now the last couple days I've been reading Joseph Roth's novel right and left”
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The Spider's Web
Discussed“yeah and apparently I mean I haven't read the spiders web which is first novel which was published in 1923”
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At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell's "At the Existentialist Café" is a lively group biography that chronicles the lives and ideas of the prominent existentialist philosophers of the twentieth century.
Discussed“yeah um so I I read last year I read um Sarah Bell's uh at the existentialist Cafe”
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Irrational man
Irrational Man by William Barrett is a classic 1958 survey that introduces readers to the foundational concepts and key figures of existentialist philosophy.
Discussed“is William Barrett's uh irrational man which was a a survey kind of of existentialism that came out in 1958”
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Into the Nest
Discussed“it's called into the nest intimate views of courting parenting and family lives of familiar Birds by a woman named Lauren Ericson Laura Ericson”
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The Love Lives of Birds
Discussed“it's called into the nest intimate views of courting parenting and family lives of familiar Birds by a woman named Lauren Ericson Laura Ericson”
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“well I mentioned last week uh that I was on the verge of starting Robert caros the power broker which is his massive biography of Robert Moses”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“even cormic McCarthy's the road”
“including a sherlockian PTI the Memoirs of Silver Blaze which uh was in an anthology in the company of Sherlock Holmes”
“Charles Dickens had uh created a detective who became an important character in his novel Bleak House”
“um W wilky Collins had created a detective who was an important character in uh the Moonstone”
“Karen Marie moanings um final novel in her fever series”
“this book is called Never Never”
“Jonathan chat's audacity which is a look back at the legacy of Barack Obama makes its list”
“and Michael Eric Dyson's tears we cannot stop which is subtitled a sermon to White America”
“I had read Rebellion a number of years ago”
“and I've actually never read I guess his most famous book which is the retsky March”
“so maybe not quite as far as AJ Jacobs in the year of living biblically”