Episode · The Book Review · 2016-08-05
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘How to Be a Person in the World’
Pamela Paul discussed How to be a person in the world by Heather Havrilesky, Break in case of emergency by Jessica Winter, and Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Alexandra Alter discussed Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two - Playscript by J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts by J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling, Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne, Hillary's America by Dinesh D'Souza, Wake up America by Eric Bolling, Killing the Legends by Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West by David Fisher and others, and Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda and others. Jessica Winter recommended The beautiful bureaucrat by Helen Phillips and Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill, and discussed Personal days by Ed Park and The Ask by Sam Lipsyte. Jennifer Schuessler recommended The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, and discussed Underground airlines by Ben H. Winters. John Williams recommended We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and others, and discussed Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How to be a person in the world
Discussed“Heather heski also known as ask Polly is here to talk about the book of her advice columns called how to be a person in the world”
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Break in case of emergency
Discussed“Jessica winter is here to talk about her first novel break in case of emergency”
Where to get it
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K.
Discussed“It started on Sunday with the release of the Harry Potter play which was highly anticipated for months and tons of people pre-ordered it so we found out just how many people bought it it sold more than two million hard cover copies in the first two days on sale”
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two - Playscript
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two - Playscript is a stage play script by J.K.
Discussed“It started on Sunday with the release of the Harry Potter play which was highly anticipated for months and tons of people pre-ordered it so we found out just how many people bought it it sold more than two million hard cover copies in the first two days on sale”
Where to get it
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Fantastic Beasts
Fantastic Beasts by J.
Discussed“I'm also really curious to see what the sales and fan response will be to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which is being published it's a screenplay of course she wrote it this time so unlike the play these are her words”
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.
Discussed“I'm also really curious to see what the sales and fan response will be to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which is being published it's a screenplay of course she wrote it this time so unlike the play these are her words”
Where to get it
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Crisis of Character
Crisis of Character by Gary J.
Discussed“exactly on the on the non-fiction hard cover list this week for the New York Times the number one book is crisis of character by Gary J burn and Grant M Schmidt that is by a former secret service officer who claims to have witnessed scandalous Behavior by the clintons”
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Hillary's America
Hillary's America is a politically charged book by conservative author and pundit Dinesh D'Souza that serves as a harsh critique of the Democratic Party and a warning against a potential presidency under Hillary Clinton.
Discussed“number two is Hillary's America by dases duza and he's a conservative author and pundit and he is again warning readers against the dangers of Hillary Clinton presidency”
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Wake up America
Discussed“there is wake up America by Eric bowling this is a Fox News Channel personality who is talking about the key American virtues that he maintains are under attack by President Obama and Hillary Clinton”
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Killing the Legends
Killing the Legends by Bill O'Reilly is a popular non-fiction historical work that explores the lives of legendary figures and American historical events.
Discussed“then no non-fiction bestseller list would be complete without an appearance by Bill O'Reilly of course he's at number seven with Legends and lies the Patriots and these are stories of the American Revolution it's a companion volume to his Fox News series”
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West by David Fisher and Bill O'Reilly is a popular non-fiction work detailing historical events and figures associated with the American frontier.
Discussed“then no non-fiction bestseller list would be complete without an appearance by Bill O'Reilly of course he's at number seven with Legends and lies the Patriots and these are stories of the American Revolution it's a companion volume to his Fox News series”
Where to get it
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Hamilton
Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter is a non-fiction companion book to the hit musical that explores the creation of the show alongside the original biographical work by Ron Chernow.
Discussed“no liberal books there unless you count Hamilton the Revolution by lanel Miranda I know that's history but it's a certainly a very multiracial Multicultural view of History so maybe we could count that just for a little”
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The beautiful bureaucrat
The beautiful bureaucrat by Helen Phillips is a thought-provoking contemporary novel that explores themes of surveillance, identity, and the existential dread of modern employment.
Recommended“I read the beautiful bureaucrat by Helen Phillips I just read that two days ago actually it actually has some affinities with my book that I didn't realize um I'm doing a reading soon with with Helen and that's why I wanted to read her work”
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Personal days
Discussed“actually because the book is openly and I use the word proudly derivative of um two books by men incidentally um one is personal days by Ed Park and the other is the ask by Sam lip site and there are explicit homages to both of those books in mine”
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The Ask
Discussed“actually because the book is openly and I use the word proudly derivative of um two books by men incidentally um one is personal days by Ed Park and the other is the ask by Sam lip site and there are explicit homages to both of those books in mine”
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Dept. of Speculation
Dept.
Recommended“I love that novel Department of speculation by J yeah yeah when she writes about being an art monster I don't have it in me to be an art monster”
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical fiction novel that reimagines the antebellum South by turning the secret network of abolitionist routes into a literal subterranean railway system utilized by an enslaved woman named Cora seeking freedom.
Recommended“starting with the book everybody seems to be talking about this week Coulson Whit heads the Underground Railroad or as Oprah said when she announced it for her pick the Underground Railroad”
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Underground airlines
Discussed“oh I also by um maybe not coincidence but a couple of weeks before that I had been reading a Ben winter sort of Al alternative history Thriller underground Airlines also a kind of Riff on the Underground Railroad”
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a classic Gothic novel examining the destructive, all-consuming passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw across the bleak Yorkshire moors.
Discussed“in terms of what I've been reading this week well I finally finished weaing Heights which I've talked about in the past on the show um so I understand the Kate Bush song now and I do prefer Jane a so the country can sleep easier knowing my preference I think Jane a just has more going on in it”
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a celebrated Victorian novel following the turbulent life and emotional maturation of its eponymous orphaned protagonist.
Discussed“in terms of what I've been reading this week well I finally finished weaing Heights which I've talked about in the past on the show um so I understand the Kate Bush song now and I do prefer Jane a so the country can sleep easier knowing my preference I think Jane a just has more going on in it”
Where to get it
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, featuring narration by Bernadette Dunne, is a celebrated gothic novel and the final work published by the author in 1962.
Recommended“Shirley Jackson's novel we have always lived in the castle which was her last novel and published in 1962 um this is an addition that has I almost never read an introduction before I start reading a book but this one by Jonathan leam is really good”
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is a comprehensive historical biography that chronicles the life, political career, and lasting legacy of one of America's founding fathers.
Discussed“as I mentioned earlier uh I'm also reading Coulson whiteheads the Underground Railroad which totally draws you in and my ongoing project my homebook is Hamilton I found that I have I have a paperback and if I take that paperback out into the wild it comes home you know a little bit too marred for uh long-term reading so”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she is the author of how to be a person in the world ask Paulie's guide through the paradoxes of Modern Life”
“the book again is break in case of emergency and it's a debut novel by Jessica winter”
“have you read uh The Haunting of Hill House as well I haven't actually I think the only thing I've read of hers is the lottery which of course I read in school like everyone else the short story the very creepy short story about the villagers who well I won't spoil it in case there are three people left”
“have you read uh The Haunting of Hill House as well I haven't actually I think the only thing I've read of hers is the lottery which of course I read in school like everyone else”
“there's been a real Shirley Jackson kind of extended moment that started with a lot of her work being reissued last year including her two collections of kind of parenting motherhood around the house uh raising demons and uh among the Savages”
“there's been a real Shirley Jackson kind of extended moment that started with a lot of her work being reissued last year including her two collections of kind of parenting motherhood around the house uh raising demons and uh among the Savages”