Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: Shakespeare in Love
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Loitering
Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio is a brilliant collection of deeply observant and sharply written personal essays.
Recommended“yeah uh Charles D ambrosio's loitering um and lesli Jameson's the empathy exams I think are the two that come to mind and both of those came out last year”
Where to get it
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The Empathy Exams Essays
The Empathy Exams Essays by Leslie Jamison is an acclaimed collection of personal essays exploring pain, illness, and human connection.
Recommended“yeah uh Charles D ambrosio's loitering um and lesli Jameson's the empathy exams I think are the two that come to mind and both of those came out last year”
Where to get it
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Luckiest Girl Alive
Discussed“a former editor at Cosmo and self magazine named Jessica null has a kind of a suspense thriller called luckiest girl alive that is garnering some comparisons to Gone Girl or girl on the train”
Where to get it
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Hold still
Hold Still by Sally Mann is a memoir by the celebrated photographer that reflects on her upbringing and the evolution of the photography medium.
Discussed“she's got a memoir looking back at that time and and at what photography has become since then called Hold Still”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (17) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Taming of the Shrew
“so we have from shall we say the basic sort of treatment of women in the early history plays and Taming of the Shrew of course famously to more sophisticated love items like Juliet”
Passing The Merchant of Venice
“well she was um of of Italian descent um as you can tell and in fact the name bosano appears in different places including Merchant of Venice”
Passing Venus and Adonis
“and that's when he wrote the two narrative poems Venus and Adonis and the rape of lucrecia that's also when he wrote probably wrote some of the early sonnets”
Passing The Rape of Lucrece
“and that's when he wrote the two narrative poems Venus and Adonis and the rape of lucrecia that's also when he wrote probably wrote some of the early sonnets”
Passing Venus and Adonis
“and that's when he wrote the two narrative poems Venus and Adonis and the rape of lucrecia that's also when he wrote probably wrote some of the early sonnets”
Passing Henry VI, Part 3
“I mean even in something like Henry VI 6 the three Henry 6 you have uh the French Queen Margaret the wife of Henry 6 and of course Henry V 6 is portrayed and in fact in life was a mixture of being very weak man”
Passing Twelfth Night
“so I mean there you have in someone like in 12th night you have someone like Viola who's played by a young man pretending to be a young woman who in fact in the play is pretending to be a young man”
Passing This is running for your life
“she is the author of the essay collection this is running for your life”
“those issues of course were also addressed in his novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist and how to get filthy rich in rising Asia”
Passing The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“those issues of course were also addressed in his novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist and how to get filthy rich in rising Asia”
Passing This is running for your life
“Michelle orange is the author of the essay collection this is running for your life”
Passing Solitude Creek
“Jeffrey dver continues his Catherine dance series with a book called Solitude Creek”
Passing Gone Girl
“a former editor at Cosmo and self magazine named Jessica null has a kind of a suspense thriller called luckiest girl alive that is garnering some comparisons to Gone Girl or girl on the train”
Passing The Girl on the Train
“a former editor at Cosmo and self magazine named Jessica null has a kind of a suspense thriller called luckiest girl alive that is garnering some comparisons to Gone Girl or girl on the train”
Passing The forgotten room
“Lincoln Child continues his Jeremy Logan series with a book called The Forgotten room”
Passing Dry Bones
“This is a book called Dry Bones it's the 11th book in that series new it number five”
Passing A lucky life interrupted
“and he's written a a memoir called a lucky life Interrupted that's a new at number four”