Episode · The Book Review · 2017-10-20
Marc Maron on The Book Review: books mentioned
From Podcast to Book with Marc Maron
Marc Maron discussed Please kill me by Legs McNeil and others, Dreamland by Sam Quinones, and Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth. Alexandra Alter discussed Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Jennifer Szalai recommended The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. Pamela Paul recommended One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson, and discussed The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent by Washington Irving and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Please kill me
Please kill me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain is a classic oral history of punk rock constructed from firsthand accounts and interviews.
Discussed“and one of our models really in terms of how it reads was please kill me legs mcneel and Jillian McCain's book about the oral history of punk rock cuz I love the way that reads where you just see a name and what they said”
Where to get it
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Dreamland
Sam Quinones's compelling investigative work details the complex origins of the American opioid crisis and the devastating rise of the black tar heroin trade.
Discussed“I've read you know I like I had Sam konia with the with Dreamland which that book just blew me away and he lives by me so that was great as a journalist”
Where to get it
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Sabbath's Theater
Sabbath's Theater is a raw, provocative, and darkly comedic novel by Philip Roth that follows the tumultuous life of its aging, grief-stricken, and scandalous protagonist, Mickey Sabbath.
Discussed“he lent me Philip Roth's Sabbath theater M which is a pretty big book it's an odd book for Philip Roth It's a great Philip Roth book he went me his hardback of that and in the whole book there was one sentence underlined”
Where to get it
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is a historical fiction novel that follows Abraham Lincoln in a Washington cemetery grieving his young son Willie amid a supernatural bardo of ghosts.
Discussed“the man Booker prize was awarded this week and in what was I think a surprise choice for a lot of observers it went to George Saunders for his novel Lincoln in the BAU which was extremely well reviewed”
Where to get it
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The Orchid Thief
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean is a non-fiction narrative exploring the eccentric world of orchid poachers and the fascinating obsession surrounding rare flowers in Florida.
Recommended“it's based on a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and it's essentially about his attempt to write a screenplay of Susan orene's book The Orchid Thief which is the book that I'm reading right now and so after seeing that I I realized that you know I had never read the Orchid thief”
Where to get it
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One Good Turn
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson is a crime novel featuring the recurring investigator Jackson Brody.
Recommended“well I finally finished Kate Atkinson's one good turn which I loved it's the third of her Jackson Brody books that I've read”
Where to get it
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The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent
Discussed“this particular collection is from penguin Classics and it's called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories but it was originally published together as a collection as the Sketchbook of Jeffrey crayon gentleman which is kind of wonderful”
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Rip Van Winkle
Discussed“um but I want to talk about ripan Winkle and I want to start off by asking have you any of you read rip fan Winkle no no right so it's one of those stories that you everyone knows about I don't think anyone really reads”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“The WTF host Mark Marin will be here to talk about his new book waiting for the punch”
“Victor Sebastian will join us to talk about his new biography lenon the man the dictator and the master of Terror”
“the book again is waiting for the punch words to live by from the WTF podcast and Mark Marin is of course the host of the WTF podcast”
“Victor Sebastian is the author of a new biography of lennin it's called Lennon the man the dictator and the master of Terror”
“um the book again is Lennon the man the dictator and the master of Terror by Victor Sebastian”
“after Paul batty won for the sellout last year it's interesting because I was talking to a publisher yesterday”
“he's so well known for his short stories like his collection 10th of December and those stories tend to be dystopian and futuristic and satirical and dark and funny and kind of oblique in their emotion whereas this he felt like was such an emotional Story”
“case histories is the first one and i' also read started early took my dog I think mostly based on the title but I enjoyed all of them”
“case histories is the first one and i' also read started early took my dog I think mostly based on the title but I enjoyed all of them”