Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: Mark Thompson's 'Enough Said'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Enough Said
Enough Said by Mark Thompson is an insightful examination of what has gone wrong with the language of politics in the modern era.
Recommended“the book again is enough said what's gone wrong with the language of politics”
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All we have left
Discussed“um in uh all we have left by Wendy Mills um one of the characters Jesse it's she's a teenager now in 2016”
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Graphic Novel"I Survived 9/11" The Attacks of September 11
Discussed“so there have been been a couple of um fairly popular ones including um I survived 911 by Scholastic which I believe has part of a series”
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The Nix
The Nix by Nathan Hill is an expansive, satirical debut novel that follows a disgruntled college professor and failed writer as he reconnects with his estranged mother after she commits a bizarre political crime.
Discussed“most notably probably this debut novel by Nathan Hill called the Nicks niix”
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A great reckoning
Discussed“also Louise peny a great Reckoning that's the latest in her Armand gash series”
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The Kingdom of Speech
Discussed“um and then um also notably Tom Wolf uh with his kind of argument um against the theory of evolution”
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Play It as It Lays
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion is a stark and haunting 1970 novel that captures the profound existential alienation and emotional desolation of a former actress adrift in the desolate landscapes of Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Discussed“I read um Joan dian's 1970 novel play as it lays which I had never read her fiction before and I'm a big fan of her non-fiction like most people are this didn't quite grab me the way that her non-fiction does”
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A time to be born
Discussed“and now I'm about 100 100 pages into book by Don Powell called the time to be born”
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Washington Square
Washington Square by Henry James is a compelling novella that explores themes of courtship, family control, and inheritance in nineteenth-century New York City.
Recommended“when he heard that I hadn't read Henry James he said oh you've got to at least read Washington Square and so that's why that one um you know be because Mark Sarvis recommended it to me”
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The North water
The North Water by Ian McGuire is a gripping historical novel that follows a disgraced army surgeon aboard a brutal whaling ship bound for the Arctic.
Recommended“I just finished um a book that came out earlier this year um Ian McGuire's uh book the north water”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Mark Thompson CEO of the New York Times has Choice words about that in his new book enough said what's gone wrong with political language”
“his book is called enough said what's wrong with the language of politics”
“I thought the leave campaign uh were much more effective at finding exactly what my books about which are pithy liberating empowering slogans”