Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Black Silent Majority’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Black Silent Majority
Discussed“all right book again is black silent majority the Rockefeller drug laws and the politics of punishment by Michael forner”
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Killing the Messenger
Discussed“she reviews a new book by David Brock killing the messenger the rightwing plot to derail Hillary and hijack your government”
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Blinded by the Right
Discussed“like how does that actually work but he he wrote a book before I mean he did he did write a memoir blinded by the right”
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NW
NW is a critically acclaimed contemporary novel by Zadie Smith that follows the intertwined lives and experiences of four individuals growing up together in a diverse section of London.
Recommended“Jennifer salai our colleague at the book review uh named z Smith's NW about a group group of four friends who grew up together in London”
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The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a classic 1881 novel following the spirited young American heiress Isabel Archer as she navigates European society, independence, and a disastrous marriage.
Recommended“the food columnist Melissa Clark named Henry James's portrait of a lady”
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See is a historical fiction novel that portrays the deep lifelong bond between two girls matched as laotong, sworn companion sisters, in nineteenth-century rural China.
Recommended“two people Lynn M Kia and rosemary Barry Britain both named sunflower and the secret fan by Lisa C which is a novel about um two Chinese women in 19th century uh a remote County in 19 century China”
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Braided lives
Braided Lives by Marge Piercy is a coming-of-age novel set in the 1950s that follows two cousins, Jill and Marcia, as they navigate the restrictive social expectations, intellectual awakenings, and personal perils of womanhood in America.
Recommended“um Rosie van strop said braided lives by Marge piery is the best book about friendship she's read”
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The Robber Bride
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood is a complex novel that reimagines the classic femme fatale trope through the manipulative character of Zenia, whose reappearance disrupts the lives of three former university friends.
Recommended“libby kmore said without a doubt the robber bride by Margaret Atwood”
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My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante is the captivating first volume of the internationally acclaimed Neapolitan quartet, chronicling the complex lifelong friendship of two girls growing up in a poor yet vibrant neighborhood in Naples.
Recommended“Lucia janova named Elena fron is my brilliant friend which is the first volume in her recently concluded quartet of Neapolitan novels”
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The road from Coorain
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway is a classic memoir that recounts the author's formative years growing up on a remote sheep station in the arid Australian bush before her eventual journey into academia.
Recommended“the one that came to mind was Lori mois who will run the frog Hospital which I read a long time ago”
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One Year After
Discussed“the First new Tittle is down at number 14 William R Fortune has a new book called one year after it's kind of a survivalist dystopia”
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Driving heat
Discussed“at number 13 Richard Castle has a book Seven of his Nikki Heat series that's called driving Heat”
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The scam
Discussed“new at number 10 Janet anovich is back on the list with the scam that's um part of a series that she's writing with Lee Goldberg”
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Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff is a structurally ambitious novel that examines a long marriage through the sharply contrasting perspectives of both partners.
Discussed“new at number seven our Covergirl Lauren gra uh is on the list with her new novel Fates and Furies”
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Devoted in Death
Discussed“and finally up at number three JD Rob who her regular readers will know is really Nora Roberts uh is back on the list with devoted in death”
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Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics
Discussed“then at number 15 Step Brier uh also a book that we talked about um a couple of weeks ago”
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The Court and the World
Discussed“then at number 15 Step Brier uh also a book that we talked about um a couple of weeks ago”
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Fast Girl
Discussed“then at number four a book called Fast Girl by the three-time Olympian U the runner Susie Favor Hamilton uh written with Sarah Tomlinson”
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The art of memoir
Discussed“then at number three Mary Carr the uh best-selling memoirist has a book about Memoir it's called The Art of memoir”
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Why not me?
Discussed“so it's only fitting that at number one we have a memoir really a a collection of personal essays um the second collection of personal essays by the actress Mindy Kaling uh it's a book called Why Not Me”
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“David Brock author of killing the messenger thinks there is”
“Jabron Muhammad who is the director of New York City's shamberg Center for research in Black Culture and the author of The condemnation of Blackness race crime and the making of Modern urban America joins us now”
“I think that the Tina Fay got somewhere between five and6 million for her book bossy pants which went on to be a huge bestseller”
“Hannah is the author most recently of the end of men and the rise of women and this week she reviews David Brock's new book Killing the”
“it's a sequel to his 2009 bestseller 1 second after”
“then um jumping all the way up to number five David Brock uh is on the list with killing the messenger which we talked about earlier on the podcast”