Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Court and the World’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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All Joy and No Fun
All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior is a non-fiction book that explores the profound psychological and sociological impact of children on modern American parents.
Recommended“she is the author of a book all joy and no fun which is a hilarious and in-depth look at modern parenting as a parent I thoroughly enjoyed”
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Active Liberty
Discussed“that was an interesting thing to see and to see the interaction between the battles that he's been in in his previous books over active Liberty is what the title of his most recent before this one battles between that and originalism”
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the star side of bird hill
Discussed“let's start um to talk specifically about the star side of bird hill by Naomi Jackson”
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Animals
Discussed“let's talk about a very different book as you said not quite a Coming of Age novel um in the traditional sense but Emma Jane unsworth Book animal”
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To the Finland station
To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson is a classic work of intellectual history that traces the development of socialist thought and the lead-up to the Russian Revolution through the lives of various European thinkers and revolutionaries.
Discussed“so I'm now uh rereading uh eban Wilson's to the Finland station because I'm working myself on a book a biography of William F Buckley that has a lot of ideas in it”
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James Joyce
Discussed“I'm also rereading uh Richard elman's biography of James Joyce”
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Truman
Truman by David McCullough is a comprehensive historical biography examining the life, political career, and presidency of Harry S.
Discussed“when I was uh working on Whitaker Chambers which was my uh biography I wrote many years ago last now I would alternate reading elman's wild with David McCulla Truman”
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Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie is a sprawling novel that reimagines a world of magical realism, jinn, and philosophical conflict inspired by One Thousand and One Nights.
Discussed“then at number nine Solon rushy uh is on the hard cover fiction list with 2 years 8 months and 28 nights which is uh for the mathematically inclined it it amounts to 1,1 Knights”
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Reckless
Discussed“at number seven I'm new on the list this week Chrissy hind the longtime lead singer and frontwoman of the pretenders has a memoir called Reckless”
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Other mentions in this episode (21) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she is the author of The Sleepwalker guide to dance and this week she reviews three Coming of Age novels for us on the short list”
Passing A Spool of Blue Thread
“an Tyler's a spool of blue thread was nominated”
Passing Life
“Hana Yan gara's a little life was nominated um and then there's the British writer Tom McCarthy the Jamaican author Marlon James and the Nigerian author Choi Obama's debut novel The Fisherman and the British author sanjie sahota's the year of the runaway”
Passing The Year of the Runaways
“Hana Yan gara's a little life was nominated um and then there's the British writer Tom McCarthy the Jamaican author Marlon James and the Nigerian author Choi Obama's debut novel The Fisherman and the British author sanjie sahota's the year of the runaway”
Passing Life
“Hana Yan gahara was also nominated for the fiction long list uh for her novel a little life”
Passing Did you ever have a family
“uh for her novel a little life and Bill C's debut novel did you ever have a family made it onto the booker long list”
Passing Animals
“Animals by Emma Jane unsworth”
Passing the star side of bird hill
“um the star side of birt hill by Naomi Jackson”
“um you've your last novel was The Sleepwalkers guide to dancing but you're working on a graphic Memoir”
Own book Good Talk
“um I'm working on a graphic Memoir it's called good talk and it came out of a series of conversations”
“that was mea Jacob she is the author of The Sleepwalker guide to dancing”
Passing Oscar Wilde
“have you read his Oscar wild”
Passing Dance of the bones
“well on the fiction side there are four new titles uh starting with a familiar name down at number 15 ja a Jance is back on the list with dance of the bones”
“then at number 12 another familiar name Robert B Parker who died a long time ago but has remained prolific uh reed frell Coleman is continuing Robert B Parker's series with Robert B Parker's the devil wins”
Passing Make Me
“then finally uh new at number one this this week Lee Child uh is back with another Jack Reacher novel this one's called make me and it debuts right at the top of the list”
Passing The Girl on the Train
“girl on the train still on there”
Passing All the Light We Cannot See
“all the light we cannot see still on there”
Passing The Nightingale
“um down at number 13 Kristen Hannah the night Andale has now spent 32 weeks on the list”
Passing The prize
“another book that we recently reviewed at number 12 Dale ruskov's the prize which looks at um school reform in Newark New Jersey”
Passing Just Kids
“maybe Patty Smith got the ball rolling back with just kids which won the national book award in 2010”
Passing M train
“she's got another book coming out later this she does m train a second Memoir”