Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘I Contain Multitudes’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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I Contain Multitudes
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong is a popular science book that explores the complex, symbiotic relationships between animals and the vast microbial communities living inside them.
Recommended“All in This Book appropriately titled I contain multitudes the microbes within us and a grander view of Life by Ed Yang”
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman's groundbreaking poetry collection Leaves of Grass celebrates nature, the human body, and the democratic spirit through a revolutionary free-verse style.
Discussed“it's a quote from Leaves of Grass”
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On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is the foundational scientific text establishing the theory of evolution by natural selection and detailing its profound impacts on modern biology and human thought.
Discussed“so in On the Origin of Species Darwin ended with this wonderful thing about um a tangled bank”
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Darkness Visible
Darkness Visible by William Sytron is a powerful and celebrated memoir detailing the author's harrowing experience with severe clinical depression and mental illness.
Discussed“Darkness visible is one of my favorite books William styren memo about depression”
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My avant-garde education
My Avant-Garde Education is a memoir by Bernard Cooper that reflects on the author's formative experiences and artistic awakening.
Recommended“recently I loved um Bernard Cooper's my evant Guard education which came out last year”
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Boy erased
Discussed“One of the books is boy erased by Gerard Conley and I really hope I'm pronouncing his first name right”
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One of these things first
Discussed“by Steven gains which is called one of these things first”
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My son wears heels
Discussed“and the third book is called my son wears heels one mom's Journey from Clueless to kickass by Julie Tarney”
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So long, see you tomorrow
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell is a celebrated, poignant novella that explores a childhood memory, isolation, and a tragic murder in a small Midwestern town.
Discussed“May remember on the last podcast I was is reading the William Maxwell novel so long see you tomorrow”
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Herzog
Herzog by Saul Bellow is a celebrated modernist novel following a beleaguered intellectual who writes frantic, unsent letters to friends, enemies, and historical figures while suffering a midlife crisis.
Discussed“and this time around I did that with Sal Bell's Herzog which became my beach reading for most of this trip”
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Last things
Last Things by Jenny Offill is a poignant debut novel that follows a young girl trying to make sense of her parents' crumbling marriage through the lens of art and science.
Discussed“it's called Blast things”
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A childhood, the biography of a place
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews is a evocative and gritty memoir in which the author chronicles his formative early years growing up in a deeply impoverished, isolated farming community in rural Georgia.
Discussed“I have been reading a memoir by Southern writer named Harry Cruz called a childhood”
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Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.
Discussed“on the non-fiction list I think the most interesting thing um is that hillbilly Eloy by JD Vance the Memoir by this white workingclass guy”
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Other mentions in this episode (12) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he is the author of I contain multitudes the microbes within us and a grander view of Life”
“I should mention that you are the author most recently of the Unspeakable and other subjects of discussion a book of essays”
“you've written a memoir also life would be perfect if I lived in that house”
“and the titles again are my son wears Heels by Julie Tarney boy erased by Gerard Conley and one of these things first by step gains”
“somebody uh who's a big fan of that book is Mary Carr and she talks about it in the art of memoir”
“she debuts at number 16 with another Brooklyn”
“then we have ba Paris with behind closed doors at number 15”
“Susan wigs with family tree at 13 about a tragedy in La that sends a woman to a Vermont farm”
“then debuting at number five three sisters three queens from the very prolific Philippa Gregory”
“another frequent uh contributor to the bestseller list Katherine couter debuts it number two with her new novel Insidious”
“Powerhouse by James Andrew Miller that was reviewed by James B Stewart in our Pages recently”
“and then the other new uh book is adnan's Story by Rabia chry and that is about Adnan Saad who was the subject of Serial”