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Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: You, New and Improved

2 books · With Heather Heski, Michael Ian Black · Watch on YouTube

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

    Marie Kondo · at 4:57

    The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo is a widely popular self-help guide that offers a revolutionary approach to decluttering and organizing personal spaces by evaluating possessions based on whether they spark joy.

    Discussed
    “it's interesting because I'm also reading Marie condo's book The life-changing magic of tidying up which is the kind of the giant sensation about reorganizing your life and I just got to the section where she says you should not own loungewear”
    Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: You, New and Improved 2024-07-18 Listen at 4:57
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library

  2. You're not doing it right

    Michael Ian Black · at 19:04 · mentioned 2 times

    Discussed
    “what's interesting about um this book and your previous Memoir you're not doing it right is that I mean I guess there's a sub genre um the comedian Memoir”
    Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: You, New and Improved 2024-07-18 Listen at 19:04
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book You're not doing it right
“and then the second book you're not doing it right I really wanted to create a cohesive narrative and I didn't know if I could do that either”
Guest Inside The New York Times Book Review: You, New and Improved 2024-07-18 Listen at 17:13
Passing Between the World and Me
“so it's about bodies much the way tanasi coats's book is about bodies except not at all right I was waiting for that I allowed to beat there um I'm trying to put us in the same class assuming your readers will and your listeners will fall for it for readers of Tanana hay coats's book enjoy gazing so on”
Guest Inside The New York Times Book Review: You, New and Improved 2024-07-18 Listen at 21:08
Passing Between the World and Me
“so it's about bodies much the way tanasi coats's book is about bodies except not at all right I was waiting for that I allowed to beat there um I'm trying to put us in the same class assuming your readers will and your listeners will fall for it for readers of Tanana hay coats's book enjoy gazing so on”
Guest Inside The New York Times Book Review: You, New and Improved 2024-07-18 Listen at 21:08
Own book You're not doing it right
“I felt like I didn't go far enough into my relationship with her in in you're not doing it right because it wasn't really the subject of the book”
Guest Inside The New York Times Book Review: You, New and Improved 2024-07-18 Listen at 27:30