Episode · The Book Review · 2015-05-22
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: Shakespeare in Love
Pamela Paul discussed Women of Will by Tina Packer, Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, ..., Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso, and Discontent and Its Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid. Michelle Orange recommended The Empathy Exams Essays by Leslie Jamison and others and Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio. Greg Cowles discussed Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll, The Great War of Our Time by Michael Morell, and Hold still by Sally Mann.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Women of Will
Discussed“co-author of the essential Shakespeare handbook uh will come in handy discussing these two books we're going to talk about Tina Packer's book women of will following the feminine in Shakespeare's plays and Chris Le arar's book Shakespeare and the Countess the battle that gave birth to the globe”
Where to get it
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Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, ...
Discussed“the other one you said uh was a favorite was letter to a future lover marginalia Arata Secrets inscriptions and other ephemera found in libraries by Ander Monson”
Where to get it
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Ongoingness
Discussed“let's start with Sarah Mango's book uh ongoingness the end of a diary”
Where to get it
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Discontent and Its Civilizations
Discussed“the final um essay collection is by someone who we more uh closely associate with the novel um mammed um his collection is discontent and its civilizations dispatches from laor New York and London”
Where to get it
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The Empathy Exams Essays
The Empathy Exams Essays is a collection of deeply introspective essays by Leslie Jamison that explores physical and emotional pain.
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”
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Loitering
Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio is a brilliant collection of essays that examines profound personal and cultural themes with exceptional depth.
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”
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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”
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The Great War of Our Time
Discussed“the former deputy director of the CIA Michael Morell has written a book with Bill harlo called the Great War of our time a title that sort of harks back to Gandalf from Lord of the Rings”
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Hold still
Hold Still by Sally Mann is a 2015 memoir by the acclaimed photographer that looks back at her life, family history, and the evolution of the medium of photography.
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 (26) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Essential Shakespeare Handbook
“he is a former European cultural correspond for the times and co-author with Leslie dunon Downer of the essential Shakespeare handbook”
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 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 Essential Shakespeare Handbook
“being the author or co-author of a book called The Essential Shakespeare handbook looking again at these two books Shakespeare and the CEST the battle that gave birth to the globe and women of will following the feminine and Shakespeare's plays”
Passing Women of Will
“being the author or co-author of a book called The Essential Shakespeare handbook looking again at these two books Shakespeare and the CEST the battle that gave birth to the globe and women of will following the feminine and Shakespeare's plays”
Passing Women of Will
“the books again are women of will following the feminine in Shakespeare's plays by Tina Packer and Shakespeare and the Countess by Chris leotus”
Passing Essential Shakespeare Handbook
“writing is a former European cultural correspondent for the times and also co-author with Leslie dunon Downer of the essential Shakespeare handbook”
Passing This is running for your life
“she is the author of the essay collection this is running for your life”
Passing Ongoingness
“um so first up ongoingness the end of a diary by Sarah manguso”
Passing Essays After Eighty
“essays after 80 by Donald Hall”
Passing Discontent and Its Civilizations
“discontent and its civilizations dispatches from lore New York and London by Mosen hammed”
“and letter to a future lover marginalia era Secrets inscriptions and other ephemera found in libraries by Ander Monson”
“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 The Quartet
“at number 14 uh the historian Joseph J Ellis has a new book called the quartet”
Passing A lucky life interrupted
“and he's written a a memoir called a lucky life Interrupted that's a new at number four”