Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Here
Here by Richard McGuire is a groundbreaking graphic novel that depicts a single corner of a room across vast spans of geological and human time from a fixed perspective.
Recommended“and uh someone named Abby Davis were among the many people who named Richard Maguire's here and you talked to Maguire earlier in this episode about that very uh Innovative book”
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is a sprawling, ambitious historical novel that uses the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley to weave a complex narrative spanning decades of political violence, drug wars, and systemic turmoil in Jamaica and the United States.
Discussed“and the big news this week was the announcement of the winner of the man Booker prize which was announced on Tuesday uh and the winner was Marlon James for his novel a brief history of seven killings”
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Pretty deadly
Pretty deadly is a supernatural western comic book series created by writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Emma Ríos, though discussed on the podcast in connection with Joe Schreiber.
Recommended“uh a reader named Stevie Ray recommends graphic novel called pretty deadly and he says if you love westerns SLS Supernatural folklore beautifully ghoul full Illustrated Graphics than this one is for you”
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The motherless oven
The motherless oven is a graphic novel by Rob Davis that presents a surreal, coming-of-age narrative set in a bizarre world where teenagers manufacture their own parents and weather is dictated by household objects.
Recommended“um reader named John Freeman and another named Jamie gambell recommended the motherless oven by Rob Davis”
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State of Play
Discussed“yeah you also review a book of essays um in your review a book called state of play edited by Daniel Goldberg and lonus Larson”
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Other mentions in this episode (17) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing John Crow's Devil
“this is his third novel his first was called John Crow's devil uh that was in 2005”
Passing The book of night women
“and in 2009 he published The Book Of Night women”
Passing State of Play
“that was Simon parin who reviews super better by Jane mcgonagal and state of play edited by Daniel Goldberg and lonus Larson”
Passing Dashing through the Snow
“there are six new titles on the fiction list this week starting down at number 15 Debbie momer has a novel called dashing through the snow”
Passing Saturn Run
“um John Sanford the Thriller writer has a science fiction novel he wrote with the online photographer kattin this book is called Saturn run”
Passing The Secret Chord
“then at number 12 Geraldine Brooks's latest historical novel this one goes all the way back to King David it's called The Secret chord lifting from Leonard Co”
Passing Shadows of Self
“then at number eight the fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson has his latest kind of fantasy Thriller called Shadows of self”
Passing A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“and this is the third of three prequels called a KN of the Seven Kingdoms”
Passing The survivor
“finally knew at number one this week Vince Flynn who died of prostate cancer back in 2013 when he was just 47 years old was working on this novel The Survivor when he died”
Passing Fortunate Son
“the singer songwriter and and Rocker John Fogerty the leader of Credence Clearwater um has a book called Fortunate Son which he wrote with Jimmy mcdna”
Passing Sounds like me
“then at number 13 again a singer songwriter Sarah barelis uh has a memoir called sounds like me”
Passing The courage to act
“up at number eight Ben s Bernan not a singer songwriter to my knowledge the uh former chairman of the Federal Reserve uh has written A Memoir of his time at the FED called the courage to act”
Passing Rosemary
“then at number six I mentioned the kennedies and here's the first book Rosemary by Kate Clifford Larsson”
Passing A common struggle
“then at number four another Kennedy this is uh Ted Kennedy's son um Patrick J Kennedy has written a book called a common struggle also about mental illness”
Passing M train
“she is there she is new on the list uh her second Memoir uh called M train”
Passing Just Kids
“her first one just kids of course won the national book award a few years ago”
Passing A More Perfect Union
“the Republican presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson has written another book with his wife candy Carson not U not the first book they've done together um called a more perfect union”