Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sex and the single girl
Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown is a groundbreaking 1962 bestseller and cultural phenomenon that encouraged financially independent women to embrace their careers and personal autonomy before marriage.
Discussed“Gloria dyam writes a really mean review of uh of Sex and the single girl which was Helen Gurley Brown's breakout book in 1962”
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Bad Girls Go Everywhere
Bad Girls Go Everywhere is a biographical study by Jennifer Scanlon that examines the life, career, and cultural impact of legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown.
Recommended“I might also recommend this 2009 book called bad girls go everywhere that by a gender and women studies Professor named Jennifer scandin”
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Portrait of a marriage
Discussed“you mentioned earlier that you know your father Nigel uh was a writer um he had written about his parents portrait of a marriage um so this you know some of it was covered but I'm assuming you had read that book and what did you think”
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Our Revolution
Discussed“so the latest news is that Senator Bernie Sanders has sold a book to Thomas Dunn which is an imprint of St Martin's press it's coming out this November very timely and it's a look back at his campaign and his political platform the title is Revolution”
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Belgravia
Discussed“um Julian fellows who of course you know from dton Abby has a new novel out this one is about class differences in uh Victorian London it's called Bel gravia and it is new at number 13 on the hard cover fiction list”
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Bush
Discussed“two of them are political biographies uh Gene Edward Smith's Bush about uh the 43rd President George W bush uh Bush new at number 16”
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Bobby Kennedy
Discussed“and then Larry Tai has a biography of Bobby Kennedy new at number 15”
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Seinfeldia
Discussed“the only other new title on the hard cover non-fiction list this week is Jennifer C Armstrong's look at Seinfeld called seinfeldia it's kind of a a deep dive history and cultural appreciation of the show”
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All the single ladies
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation is a groundbreaking work of journalism and sociology by Rebecca Traister that examines the historical and cultural shift of women choosing to remain single and independent.
Discussed“but I ended up chasing that book with Rebecca tracer's new book All the Single Ladies uh which is sort of this big look at how um marriage is kind of going out of Vogue for 100 years American women were marrying at a median age of 20 and now they're marrying at 27 if all”
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The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a modernist tragic novel that explores the deceit, betrayal, and complex psychological undercurrents hidden beneath the polite facade of Edwardian upper-class society.
Discussed“I thought I was going to finish the good soldier on the train this morning I am almost finished with it”
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Of Woman Born
Discussed“and um she's got this reputation as real radical politically uh of woman born is also yeah not nonfiction”
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Living with books
Discussed“um it's a book that's coming out from the Pushkin press which is a British press um and they've already come out in England and uh it's part of a series the book is called on Reading Writing and living with books”
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On Reading, Writing and Living with Books
Discussed“um it's a book that's coming out from the Pushkin press which is a British press um and they've already come out in England and uh it's part of a series the book is called on Reading Writing and living with books”
Where to get it
