Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Jo Nesbo Reimagines ‘Macbeth’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Macbeth
Discussed“James Shapiro shakerian scholar joins us now to talk about his cover review of Joe nebo's version of MC Beth”
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Germinal
Germinal by Émile Zola is a classic, gritty realist novel that portrays the harsh lives and grueling struggles of coal miners in nineteenth-century France during a major labor strike.
Discussed“Zola when he wrote germinal the beginning of germinal it's because of a true story because of a strike in the the M District”
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A Higher Loyalty
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership is a memoir by former FBI Director James Comey that offers an inside look at leadership, institutional norms, and his high-profile interactions with political figures, including Donald Trump.
Discussed“this is James comey's book a higher loyalty”
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Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan is a sweeping historical fiction novel set in New York City during World War II, following a young woman who breaks barriers to become the first female diver at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Discussed“I mean you had Jennifer Egan with her novel Manhattan Beach which was kind of a throwback”
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The Idiot
The Idiot by Elif Batuman is a brilliant coming-of-age novel that follows a young woman navigating her freshman year at Harvard and her nascent, epistolary romance with an older student.
Discussed“I was happy to see the idiot there which was that was a finalist finalist two kind of comic novels finalist and winner”
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In the distance
In the Distance by Hern%c3%a1n D%c3%adaz is a structurally ambitious historical novel that follows a young Swedish immigrant wandering across the American West before the Civil War.
Discussed“and the third book this the other finalist for fiction was hernand Diaz's in the distance which was also kind of a not just a dark horse but of an unknown horse in the race”
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Locking up our own
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.
Discussed“it was James Foreman Jr's locking up our own which was listed as one of our 10 best in the book review”
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The Gulf
Discussed“yeah golf by Jack E Davis it's a big and and quite well wrought book of history”
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The emissary
The Emissary by Yōko Tawada is a translated work of contemporary Japanese fiction that presents a somber and dystopian vision of society.
Discussed“and she's a new book called The Emissary which is not funny and it is not light but it's very good in certain ways”
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yōko Tawada is a concise, sixty-page short story by the acclaimed Japanese writer that explores surreal and transgressive themes.
Recommended“although if you haven't read toada I suggest you start with the bridegroom was a dog which is about just that”
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Life on Mars
Discussed“I don't think it's quite on par with her last one life on Mars which won the P prize”
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Going Clear
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright is a meticulously researched investigative non-fiction book that exposes the inner workings and controversial history of the Church of Scientology.
Discussed“and in going clear his book about scientology”
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The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright's meticulously researched non-fiction book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 provides a comprehensive and chilling investigation into the origins of modern Islamic terrorism.
Discussed“I I you know the way that the way that he structures his books and I kind of found that I don't know if he does this in God Saves Texas but in the looming Tower and in going clear his book about scientology the looming Tower of course being about sort of origins of the war on terrorism”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“at other times I'm obsessed and I wrote a book on the year of Lear which is also about the year of MC Beth about the ways in which Shakespeare is able to translate the anxieties of his time into a brilliant play”
“and of course you know getting attacked repeatedly by the president on Twitter which as Michael wolf demonstrated with fire and fury is a recipe for massive Book Sales”
“and of course you know getting attacked repeatedly by the president on Twitter which as Michael wolf demonstrated with fire and fury is a recipe for massive Book Sales”