Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘A God in Ruins’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Life After Life
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson is a celebrated novel that follows protagonist Ursula Todd as she repeatedly dies and is reborn across different eras of the twentieth century, most notably the Second World War.
Discussed“but also about her previous novel um 2013's Life After Life which was one of our 10 best books of the year with Tom PDA”
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A god in ruins
A god in ruins by Kate Atkinson is a companion novel and sequel to Life After Life, following the life of Teddy Todd during and after the London World War II Blitz era.
Discussed“we're talking about Kate Atkinson's new novel a God in Ruins”
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Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner is a critically acclaimed contemporary novel that follows an American poetry fellow in Madrid as he navigates art, language, alienation, and the aftermath of the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Discussed“I'm thinking of books like Carl oen asgard's uh my struggle I'm thinking of Jenny alul Department of speculation Ben learner leaving the Atocha station books with a single narrator”
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My Struggle
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård, translated by Don Bartlett, is a monumental six-volume autofictional masterwork that meticulously details the ordinary details, emotional triumphs, and domestic struggles of the author's everyday life.
Discussed“I'm thinking of books like Carl oen asgard's uh my struggle I'm thinking of Jenny alul Department of speculation Ben learner leaving the Atocha station books with a single narrator”
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Life among the savages
Discussed“that was Ruth Franklin talking about two books by Shirley Jackson raising demons and life among the Savages”
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Raising demons
Discussed“that was Ruth Franklin talking about two books by Shirley Jackson raising demons and life among the Savages”
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The witchcraft of Salem Village
Discussed“it's written in the style of the 17th century witchcraft Chronicles uh which she collected and read and then wrote about in a children's book called the Witchcraft of Salem Village”
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The Lottery
Shirley Jackson's chilling short story depicts a seemingly idyllic small town that annually conducts a brutal ritualistic stoning, exposing the dark side of blind tradition and conformity.
Discussed“amazingly just less than a month after the lottery was published”
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An ember in the ashes
Discussed“it's a fantasy novel called an ember in the ashes um about a girl at War um who becomes a spy and it also simultaneously tells this”
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