Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Men We Reaped
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward is a powerful and poignant memoir that examines the tragic deaths of the author's brother and four other young Black men in her rural Mississippi community, exploring systemic poverty, racism, and grief.
Discussed“Men We reaped was about six young African-American men who were in your life as close as your brother who died did you think about approaching it through fiction briefly”
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward is a powerful Mississippi-set novel that functions simultaneously as a raw road trip narrative and a haunting ghost story.
Discussed“tell us what this book Sing unburied Sing is about okay Sing uned Sing follows a family from the Mississippi G Coast up into the heart of Mississippi to to the Delta to Parchman as they journey to Parchman prison to pick up one of the members of the family from the jail”
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The Evolution of Beauty
The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O.
Discussed“and that book is the evolution of beauty how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate Choice shapes the animal world and Us by Richard prom”
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Purpose & desire
Discussed“there's one Scott Turner's purpose and desire is one that this happens fairly often he's attempting to add something not to completely disrupt Darwin's theory”
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Darwin's First Theory
Discussed“and it's his journey that Rob Wesson both recreates and follows on foot in his book Darwin's first Theory”
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Bitterblue
Discussed“it wasn't hard for me to leave it behind just because bitter blue was so hard and so dark and really had a lot to do with my my own life”
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Hard choices
Hard Choices is a political memoir by Hillary Rodham Clinton detailing her tenure as United States Secretary of State during the first term of the Obama administration.
Discussed“and it's also interesting to kind of compare this to her last Memoir which came out in 2014 and that was called hard choices and that sold around 86,000 print books so far fewer”
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The Ginger Man
Discussed“and last week or maybe the week before JP Don leevy died the 91-year-old Irish American author who is really known best for one novel called The Ginger Man so I've been reading that because I've been meaning to for many years”
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The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law is a comprehensive historical investigation into how federal, state, and local government policies systematically segregated American cities through deliberate laws rather than private choices.
Discussed“so the one that I've been reading on my commute now is the color of law by Richard Brin and its subtitle is a forgotten history of how our government segregated America”
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Unbelievable
Discussed“um so I'm finishing up Katie tur's Memoir unbelievable which um it is pretty unbelievable”
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Other mentions in this episode (44) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Sing, Unburied, Sing
“Jasmine Ward will be here to discuss her new novel Sing unburied Sing why five new books about Darwin now the sample we have here that we look at in the review is representative in some ways of the more readable books”
Passing Jane, Unlimited
“Kristen Kure will be here to talk about her new book Jane unlimited Alexander alter will give us an update from the literary World Plus”
Passing Sing, Unburied, Sing
“Jasmine Ward joins us now from San Francisco where she is on tour for her new novel Sing unburied Sing Jasmine thanks for joining us”
Passing Salvage the Bones
“yes which you won for your first novel Salvage the bones does it bring you back to that moment”
Passing Salvage the Bones
“and that novel Salvage of the bones that won the national book award in 2011 but you took a detour after that novel”
Passing The Fire This Time
“because you you edited Anthology last year called the fire of this time you wrote A Memoir Men We reaped”
Passing Men We Reaped
“you wrote A Memoir Men We reaped can you talk a little bit about sort of why you moved away from fiction little bit about those two books”
Passing Salvage the Bones
“so after Salvage the bones um after I finished that draft it just seemed like the right time to try to tell that story that required you know that I tell it using creative non-fiction”
Passing Sing, Unburied, Sing
“the book is called Sing unburied Sing by Jasmine Ward it's just been longlisted for the national book award”
Passing Salvage the Bones
“and of course J won the national book award for her earlier novel in 2011 Salvage the bones Jasmine thank you again for being here”
Passing Reef madness
“his own book is Reef Madness Alex Agy Charles Darwin and the meaning of coral”
Passing Collecting evolution
“the other ones are Darwin's first Theory exploring Darwin's quest to find a theory of the Earth by Rob Wesson Darwin's backyard how small experiments led to a big Theory by James Costa collecting Evolution the Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin by Matthew James”
Passing Darwin's Backyard
“the other ones are Darwin's first Theory exploring Darwin's quest to find a theory of the Earth by Rob Wesson Darwin's backyard how small experiments led to a big Theory by James Costa collecting Evolution the Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin by Matthew James”
Passing Darwin's First Theory
“the other ones are Darwin's first Theory exploring Darwin's quest to find a theory of the Earth by Rob Wesson Darwin's backyard how small experiments led to a big Theory by James Costa collecting Evolution the Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin by Matthew James”
Passing Purpose & desire
“and finally purpose and desire what makes something alive and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it by J Scott Turner”
Passing Purpose & desire
“and finally purpose and desire what makes something alive and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it by J Scott Turner”
Passing On the Origin of Species
“there have been about 7,500 or more published about Darwin since he wrote Origin of Species in 1859”
Own book Reef madness
“and this is something that hasn't gotten a lot of attention except in your book and yes I wrote a b whole book about this actually called Reef Madness as I think you mentioned up front”
Passing Collecting evolution
“and the next book is collecting Evolution the Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin by Matthew James what's this book about”
Passing Darwin's Backyard
“the last book is kind of different I think in in terms of its uh the way it's structured Darwin's backyard how small experiments led to a big Theory”
Passing The Evolution of Beauty
“let's turn to the the final book and the one that you discuss at most length in your review because it sounds like it's an important book um and that is the evolution of beauty”
Passing The descent of man
“and it was the main and most difficult part of his second book The Descent of Man”
Passing Reef madness
“David dos is the author of several books including Reef Madness Alexander ausy Charles Darwin and the meaning of coral”
Passing Bitterblue
“Kristen Kure joins us now she is the author of a new young adult novel called Jane unlimited and she is also the author of a Trilogy of ya novels the gasing realm which is gesling fire and bitter blue”
Passing Fire
“Kristen Kure joins us now she is the author of a new young adult novel called Jane unlimited and she is also the author of a Trilogy of ya novels the gasing realm which is gesling fire and bitter blue”
Passing Graceling
“Kristen Kure joins us now she is the author of a new young adult novel called Jane unlimited and she is also the author of a Trilogy of ya novels the gasing realm which is gesling fire and bitter blue”
Passing Jane, Unlimited
“Kristen Kure joins us now she is the author of a new young adult novel called Jane unlimited and she is also the author of a Trilogy of ya novels the gasing realm which is gesling fire and bitter blue”
Passing Jane Eyre
“one of them of course is Rebecca by Daphne de morier and the other is Jane a”
Passing Rebecca
“one of them of course is Rebecca by Daphne de morier and the other is Jane a”
“well Winnie the Pooh of course is in there”
Passing Nine Coaches Waiting
“then there I had the convention of Jane a or of Rebecca or of uh Mary Stewart's an incredible novel nine coaches waiting which is another one that I reread but didn't really refer to specifically”
Passing Graceling
“I would hate myself if we didn't talk about the Graceling realm Trilogy just a little bit those books you wrote over I think a period of eight years or the books came out over a period of eight years the last one came out in 2012”
Passing Fire
“yeah the three books were Graceling fire and bitter blue”
Passing Graceling
“yeah the three books were Graceling fire and bitter blue”
Passing Graceling
“it just so happened that the first thing I got published was gracing and and gracing brought out”
Passing Fire
“but then gracing brought up these ideas that made me then want to write fire”
Passing Bitterblue
“but again that book brought up ideas that that caused me to write bitter blue”
Passing Jane, Unlimited
“Kristen Cure's new book is called Jane unlimited it is a standalone at least for now ya novel”
Passing What Happened
“but probably the biggest non-fiction book that everyone was anticipating was of course Hillary Clinton's new Memoir what happened”
Passing Living history
“what about living history”
Passing Unbelievable
“and I think it's also noteworthy that number two was unbelievable by Katie tur which is her Memoir about covering the Trump campaign”
Passing This Boy's Life
“um and and I'm a big fan of Tobias wolf who's probably best known still for his Memoir This Boy's Life but he's a terrific story writer”
Passing Evicted
“basically the prequel in a way to evicted right the Matthew Desmond book”
Passing A Perfect Spy
“and then I've started a perfect spy by John laare you know this is the book I think where he deals with in a fictional way his father”