Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s ‘Loitering’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Loitering
Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio is a brilliant collection of deeply observant and sharply written personal essays.
Discussed“in this week's issue he reviews Charles damb roio's new essay collection the wonderfully titled loitering”
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The Empathy Exams Essays
The Empathy Exams Essays by Leslie Jamison is an acclaimed collection of personal essays exploring pain, illness, and human connection.
Recommended“we've had a lot of collections just in the last year a year and a half that have been very striking like Megan D's book the Unspeakable U lesie Jameson's the empathy exams”
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The unspeakable
The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum is a collection of personal essays exploring culture, modern morality, and the uncomfortable truths of daily life.
Recommended“we've had a lot of collections just in the last year a year and a half that have been very striking like Megan D's book the Unspeakable U lesie Jameson's the empathy exams”
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Book of days
Book of Days by Emily Fox Gordon is a reflective work of personal essay and memoir that chronicles the author's intellectual and domestic life with sharp observation.
Recommended“um Emily Fox Gordon had a wonderful book book of days”
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In the unlikely event
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume is a poignant adult fiction novel that reflects on a series of real-life plane crashes in Elizabeth, New Jersey, during the 1950s.
Discussed“she has her first adult novel in 16 years it's called in the unlikely event”
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God Help the Child
God Help the Child is a powerful novel by Toni Morrison that explores the lasting impact of childhood trauma and colorism through the journey of its protagonist, Bride.
Discussed“also in the spring Tony Morrison has a new novel God help the child which people are very excited about”
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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“did you like Life After Life I love life and I love her”
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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.
Recommended“perhaps you know this already but a God in grins her her next novel is about Teddy”
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Modern Romance
Discussed“aiz andari has his first book coming out about dating in the modern era it's called modern romance”
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Empire of cotton
Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert is a sweeping global history that examines how industrialization and the commodification of cotton laid the economic and structural foundations of modern capitalism.
Recommended“again the book is Empire of cotton reviewed in this week's New York Times book review by Adam hos Shield”
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America's bitter pill
America's Bitter Pill by Steven Brill is an investigative non-fiction book that scrutinizes the immense monetary interests, political maneuvering, and behind-the-scenes negotiations involved in the creation and implementation of modern American healthcare reform.
Discussed“so i looked at step Brill whose new book is going to be on the cover of our January 11th issue his new book America's bitter pill does not come out in time to make this list”
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“and we're so lucky to have with us Philip late one of the most remarkable essays we have author of the books portrait inside my head and to show and to tell the craft of liter non-fiction”
“I'm extremely excited for the buried which is ishiguro's first novel in about a decade since never let me go”
“Patty Smith has her second Memoir coming out U follow up to her bestseller just kids in September”
“yeah his very first book back in 1978 he wrote a book called The teamers and it hit the hard cover non-fiction list in 19 78”
“and then in u 2011 he also spent a few weeks on the extended list with a book that he did about America's educational system called class Warfare”
“you can go through and find correspondences like the Leo biscaglia book loving each other was number two on that list it's kind of inspirational musings just the way that Ann Lamont's new book small victories is which is on this week's”
“you can go through and find correspondences like the Leo biscaglia book loving each other was number two on that list it's kind of inspirational musings just the way that Ann Lamont's new book small victories is which is on this week's”
“but in fact it's probably a closer match to Charles crout Hammer's things that matter which is also TV commentators essays can kind of fill us”
“there you go and that is the ison's the innovators is again the list and it is a business book”