Episode · The Book Review · 2016-01-08
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Defender’
Brent Staples discussed Sex and race by J. A. Rogers. Pamela Paul discussed The confidence game by Maria Konnikova. Maria Konnikova discussed The Big Con by David Maurer and others and The Confidence Man by Herman Melville. Greg Cowles discussed Binge by Tyler Oakley, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, The Martian by Andy Weir, The Revenant by Michael Punke, and Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The confidence game
The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova explores the psychology of con artists and why intelligent people repeatedly fall for scams and manipulation.
Discussed“Maria kekova is here now to talk about her new book The Confidence Game why we fall for it every time”
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The Big Con
The Big Con by David Maurer is a classic sociological and historical study detailing the techniques, language, and culture of confidence men and professional grifters.
Discussed“well I think David Moore put it best um back in 1940 in his book the big con where he called them the aristocrats of crime”
Where to get it
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The Confidence Man
The Confidence Man by Herman Melville is a complex, darkly satirical novel set on a Mississippi River steamboat that serves as a profound meditation on trust, identity, and American capitalism.
Discussed“the first novel that really devotes itself to con artists that I could find was Melville's the confidence man and that was his last book”
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Binge
Binge by Tyler Oakley is a collection of personal essays written by a prominent YouTube personality and social advocate known for his work in the LGBTQ community.
Discussed“over in non-fiction um you have binge by Tyler Oakley it was last on the list over a month ago December 13th and here it is Boom at number five”
Where to get it
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Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff is a celebrated novel that examines the complex dynamics of a marriage by exploring the same relationship from two distinctly different perspectives.
Discussed“if you look on the fiction list Fates and Furies by Lauren gra returns to the list”
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H Is for Hawk
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald is a critically acclaimed memoir that chronicles the author's harrowing journey through grief following the sudden death of her father, which she processes by training a notoriously aggressive goshawk.
Discussed“Helen McDonald's H is for Hawk which has not been on the list since last May is back on the list at number 10 that made a lot of best of lists at the end of the year”
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is a celebrated historical novel set during World War II that follows the lives of a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France.
Discussed“also interesting um Anthony Do's all the light we cannot see which of course has been on the list forever it's uh in its 87th week”
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The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is a psychological thriller novel that follows an unstable commuter who becomes dangerously entangled in a missing person investigation after observing something suspicious from her train window.
Discussed“and at number two the girl on the train which I'm thinking is back up there because all the details about the film adaptation are coming out now”
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The Martian
The Martian by Andy Weir is a hard science fiction novel about an astronaut stranded alone on Mars who must use his engineering ingenuity and scientific knowledge to survive.
Discussed“number one is the Martian by Andy Weir that is the basis of that movie”
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The Revenant
The Revenant by Michael Punke is a gripping historical survival novel inspired by the harrowing true-life ordeal of frontier fur trapper Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his companions in the American wilderness.
Discussed“number two is the Revenant by Michael Punk or Punky the basis for the um Leonardo DiCaprio movie of the same name”
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín is a celebrated novel about a young Irish immigrant navigating homesickness, romantic choices, and a dual identity in 1950s New York and her native village.
Discussed“and number three is colem toy beans Brooklyn uh which is also the Bas of of that movie”
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“Maria kova will be here to talk about her new book The Confidence Game”