Episode · The Book Review · 2019-05-17
Books mentioned on Harper Lee's Unwritten True-Crime Book
Pamela Paul discussed Furious Hours by Casey N. Cep and Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold. Casey Cep discussed To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee, All God's Dangers by Theodore Rosengarten, and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Dwight Garner discussed Swamplandia! by Karen Russell and Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell. Parul Sehgal discussed A case of exploding mangoes by Mohammed Hanif, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif, and Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif. Jennifer Szalai discussed The Impeachers by Brenda Wineapple and Profiles in courage by John F. Kennedy.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Furious Hours
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey N.
Discussed“Casey sap will join us to talk about her book Furious hours murder fraud and the last trial of Harper Lee”
Where to get it
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Amity and Prosperity
Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold is a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of investigative journalism that chronicles one Pennsylvania family's struggle against the environmental and social fallout of the fracking boom.
Discussed“Eliza Griswald will be here to discuss her Pulitzer prizewinning book Amity and prosperity one family and the fracturing of America”
Where to get it
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores themes of racial injustice, moral growth, and empathy in the American South through the eyes of young Scout Finch.
Discussed“I think like a lot of the world I was so shocked to learn that Harper Lee would be publishing a new book and that was goetta Watchman the book book that was published as her second novel”
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Go Set A Watchman
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee is a novel written before To Kill a Mockingbird that follows an adult Scout returning to Maycomb, Alabama, and confronting her aging father's complex racial views.
Discussed“I think like a lot of the world I was so shocked to learn that Harper Lee would be publishing a new book and that was goetta Watchman the book book that was published as her second novel”
Where to get it
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All God's Dangers
Discussed“and it's around the time if folks know Theodore rosengart all God's dangers the story of Nate Chaw the sharecropper that that's what's happening in this part of Alabama”
Where to get it
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a foundational true-crime masterpiece that details the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas and the subsequent capture of the killers.
Discussed“as you know she helped capot out in Kansas within Cold Blood and we all know the story of the squib and the New York Times that sent him out there in a conversation with Mr Shawn”
Where to get it
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Swamplandia!
Discussed“she's also written a novel called swamp landia which which got a lot of attention”
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Orange World and Other Stories
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell is a collection of imaginative and resonant short fiction exploring human vulnerability, motherhood, and surreal circumstances.
Discussed“the book is called orange World and Other Stories”
Where to get it
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A case of exploding mangoes
Discussed“in his books a case of exploding mangoes and Our Lady of Alice putti he has these incredibly sad Savage sa ties of life in Pakistan”
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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Discussed“in his books a case of exploding mangoes and Our Lady of Alice putti he has these incredibly sad Savage sa ties of life in Pakistan”
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Red Birds
Red Birds is a satirical novel by Mohammed Hanif that explores modern geopolitics, conflict, and displacement through contrasting perspectives in a desert landscape.
Discussed“and he has a new book a new novel called red birds”
Where to get it
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The Impeachers
The Impeachers by Brenda Wineapple is a rigorous historical work that explores the dramatic political conflict surrounding the first impeachment of a United States president.
Discussed“it's by Brenda wineapple and it's called the impeachers”
Where to get it
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Profiles in courage
Profiles in courage by John F.
Discussed“when JFK wrote profiles and courage I think it was 1959 it was still the case that there was a sense”
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