Episode · The Book Review · 2015-05-29
Judy Blume on The Book Review: books mentioned
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Judy Blume’s ‘In the Unlikely Event’
Pamela Paul discussed Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume, In the unlikely event by Judy Blume, and Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin and others. Judy Blume discussed Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner. Liesel Schillinger discussed Meet Me in Atlantis by Mark Adams, Granada by Steven Nightingale, The almost nearly perfect people by Michael Booth, The Fault Line by Paolo Rumiz, and The porcelain thief by Huan Hsu. Greg Cowles discussed The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. Also mentioned: City on fire by Garth Risk Hallberg, In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware, The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz, and Purity by Jonathan Franzen.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
Starring Sally J.
Discussed“God it's me Margaret Deanie and my personal favorite starring Sally J fredman as herself among many other books”
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In the unlikely event
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume is an adult novel inspired by the author's childhood experiences with a tragic series of three real-life commercial airline crashes that shook her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, in the early 1950s.
Discussed“her new book is in the unlikely event”
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Telex from Cuba
Telex from Cuba is a historical novel by Rachel Kushner set in an American-owned mining company town in Cuba right before the outbreak of the Cuban revolution.
Discussed“she had been invited as a new voice and she was on stage talking about her first novel Telex from Cuba a book that I had loved very much”
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Meet Me in Atlantis
Discussed“meet me in Atlantis my obsessive quest to find the sunken city by Mark Adams”
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Granada
Discussed“as well as Grenada a pomegranate in the hand of God by Steven Nightingale”
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The almost nearly perfect people
Discussed“we're also going to talk um at least in part hopefully about the rest of them the almost nearly perfect people behind the myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth”
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The Fault Line
Discussed“we're getting to the end here the fault line traveling the other Europe from Finland to Ukraine by Pao rise”
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The porcelain thief
Discussed“and finally the porcelain Thief searching the Middle Kingdom for buried China by Juan Sue”
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City on fire
City on fire by Garth Risk Hallberg is a massive, sprawling debut novel set in 1970s New York City that weaves together a vast network of characters whose lives collide in the aftermath of a Central Park shooting during the 1977 blackout.
Discussed“so some of the books that people seem to be really excited about in the gallies that are being snapped up are uh Garris calberg City on fire which is coming out in October”
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In a Dark, Dark Wood
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware is a suspenseful thriller about a reclusive writer who gets drawn into a chaotic weekend in a remote glass house that ultimately ends in murder.
Discussed“and uh another debut novel that is getting a lot of Buzz is Ruth wear's novel in a dark wood which is kind of in the vein of Gone Girl girl on the train”
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The Girl in the Spider's Web
Discussed“speaking of girls in the title there will be another St Larson book although the author is deceased they found someone to continue on the series and it's called the girl in The Spiders web”
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Purity
Purity by Jonathan Franzen is a sprawling contemporary novel that examines modern journalism, family secrets, global activism, and personal identity through an interconnected cast of characters.
Discussed“the other novel that people were um snapping up on the floor was Jonathan fransen's Purity which is coming out this September”
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Primates of Park Avenue
Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin is a sharp, anthropological memoir that explores the insular, competitive, and often bizarre social ecosystem of ultra-wealthy mothers living on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Discussed“and this week she reviews primates of Park Avenue A Memoir by by Wednesday Martin a book that's already getting a lot of attention”
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The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is a psychological thriller novel that follows an unstable commuter who becomes dangerously entangled in a missing person investigation after observing something suspicious from her train window.
Discussed“and what's number one on the bestseller list fiction side still Paula Hawkins the girl on the train that has spent I think 13 consecutive weeks at number one”
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The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough is a detailed historical biography chronicling the lives and relentless inventive efforts of Wilbur and Orville Wright as they successfully design and build the world's first motor-operated airplane.
Discussed“on the top of the non-fiction L someone who's a little bit more accustomed to being number one yeah uh David Mulla remains at number one this week with um the Wright brothers his biography”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (16) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she is the author of among other books for grown-ups wifey summer sisters and for everyone who's grown up again in the last four decades she has written are you there”
“she is the author of among other books for grown-ups wifey summer sisters and for everyone who's grown up again in the last four decades she has written are you there”
“are you there God it's me Margaret Deanie and my personal favorite starring Sally J fredman as herself among many other books”
“I in my defense I did take two years off to work on a movie the movie of Tiger Eyes”
“um since everything um Scandinavian seems to be Dandy these days um Vera Herzog of walking in ice Munich to Paris November 23rd to 14 December 1974”
“travels in verir a memoir by Michael White”
“and uh another debut novel that is getting a lot of Buzz is Ruth wear's novel in a dark wood which is kind of in the vein of Gone Girl girl on the train”
“and uh another debut novel that is getting a lot of Buzz is Ruth wear's novel in a dark wood which is kind of in the vein of Gone Girl girl on the train”
“and John who is promoting a movie adaptation of his novel Paper Towns and Mindy Kaling and other sort of celebrity types”
“and they're looking for something new about um that kind of codery um grownup now um if you want to know what the lifestyle of a the ex assistant of Vogue and her new hedge fund husband is like on Park Avenue I think this is pretty much as good as a guess”
“actually on the hard cover fiction list uh there are four new titles starting down at number 10 Ace Atkins who picked up Robert B Parker's Spencer series after Parker's death has the next book in that series it's called Robert B Parker's Kickback”
“then at number nine Clive Barker continues his uh Barker's books of Blood series with the Scarlet gospels”
“at number six Mary Kay Andrews has a kind of a Summer Romance a book called Beach town”
“and at number three Neil Stevenson the renowned science fiction writer has a new novel out called seven EES that uh all one word seven EES knew at number three”
“and there's only one new book on the non-fiction side it is a biography by Ashley Vance called Elon Musk uh biography of Elon Musk”
“and there's only one new book on the non-fiction side it is a biography by Ashley Vance called Elon Musk uh biography of Elon Musk”