Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2021-10-10
Books mentioned on In a Job Interview, How Much Does Timing Matter? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 70
Stephen Dubner discussed Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, The devil's candy by Julie Salamon, and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte. Angela Duckworth discussed Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes is a memoir by Frank McCourt that recounts the author's impoverished and challenging upbringing in Ireland before moving to New York City.
Discussed“like I can think of one book that I loved loved loved and I saw the film and I didn't hate it and that was Angela's Ashes which I thought was a pretty good film”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a satirical novel chronicling ambition, greed, and urban decay in 1980s New York City.
Discussed“then I think of another book that I loved bonfire the vanities by Tom Wolfe love that book too great novel”
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The devil's candy
The Devil's Candy by Julie Salamon is a detailed work of non-fiction that chronicles the notoriously disastrous Hollywood adaptation of Tom Wolfe's bestselling novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Discussed“she wrote a book about the making of the movie because it just was one disaster after the next and the book was called Devil's candy”
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Discussed“the famous visual design Guru Edward tufty who wrote several books about the best way to present visual information generally basically data in pictures”
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Twilight
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is a globally popular young adult fantasy romance novel that follows the intense and complicated relationship between a human high school girl and a century-old vampire.
Discussed“Twilight the movie was everything I wanted it to be and more so I am very glad that I have the visual of Robert Pattinson as Edward for the rest of my life”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I remember when I sold grit the book proposal I had this sequence of these group interviews”
“Stephen was perhaps thinking of 'chart junk', a term that Tufte coined in his 1983 book, 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information'. Tufte writes, 'The interior decoration of graphics generates a lot of ink that does not tell the viewer anything new.'”