Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2023-01-12
Books mentioned on In a Job Interview, How Much Does Timing Matter? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 70
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt is a powerful memoir detailing the author's impoverished, harrowing childhood in Ireland, marked by severe deprivation, alcoholism, and relentless hardship.
Discussed“I can think of one book that I loved and saw the film, and I didn't hate it, and that was Angela's Ashes, which I thought was a pretty good film. I did not know that was a film.”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a sweeping satirical novel that exposes the extreme greed, ambition, and urban dysfunction of 1980s New York City.
Discussed“The journalist Julie Solomon was actually on set for a lot of the making of that movie; she wrote a book about it. She wrote a book about the making of the movie because it was just one disaster after the next, and the book was called Devil's Candy.”
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information PAPERBACK
Discussed“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.'”
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