Episode · The Book Review · 2017-05-19
Joshua Ferris on The Book Review: books mentioned
Joshua Ferris on ‘The Dinner Party’
Gilbert Cruz discussed Move fast and break things by Jonathan Taplin and The dinner party and other stories by Joshua Ferris. Parul Sehgal recommended Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb. John Williams recommended The Risk Pool by Richard Russo. Greg Cowles recommended In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl and Tribes by Nina Raine, and discussed Mating by Norman Rush and Interchange by Ken Jaworowski. Pamela Paul discussed The Gathering by Anne Enright and The Green Road by Anne Enright.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Move fast and break things
Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin is a critical examination of how major technology companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered modern culture and undermined democratic institutions.
Discussed“Jonathan taplan will be here to talk about his new book move fast and break things how Facebook Google and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy”
Where to get it
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The dinner party and other stories
The Dinner Party and Other Stories by Joshua Ferris is a collection of contemporary short fiction exploring complex human relationships, modern anxieties, and emotional intricacies.
Discussed“his new book is called the dinner party and Other Stories Josh thank you for being here”
Where to get it
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Avid Reader
Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb is a celebrated memoir by the legendary book editor that offers a fascinating look inside the world of publishing and literature.
Recommended“but this morning on the way to work I I picked up a book I've wanted to read forever which is Robert Gotti's Avid Reader and Gotti was this is a sort of legendary editor”
Where to get it
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The Risk Pool
The Risk Pool by Richard Russo is a poignant 1988 novel exploring difficult family dynamics, small-town stagnation, and a complex father-son relationship in upstate New York.
Recommended“and so really the only thing I I read this week was that I dipped back into and read some passages from um Richard Russo's 1988 novel the risk pool because Jen senior one of our daily book critics reviewed his new collection of short stories called trajectory”
Where to get it
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Mating
Mating by Norman Rush is a sprawling, intellectually ambitious novel following a brilliant female American anthropologist in Botswana as she navigates an intellectual and romantic entanglement with a utopian community leader.
Discussed“I do you know I have U momentarily set aside Norman Rush's mating I'm I'm still reading it”
Where to get it
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In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl is an acclaimed stage comedy and drama that explores Victorian-era medical treatments, female sexuality, and the dawn of electricity.
Recommended“Sarah rule of course um her play in the Next Room which is also known as the vibrator play”
Where to get it
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Tribes
Tribes by Nina Raine is a critically acclaimed play that examines family dynamics, communication barriers, and belonging through the perspective of a young deaf man raised within a hearing family.
Recommended“Nina rain her play tribes which is set in it's about the deaf Community”
Where to get it
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Interchange
Discussed“this play which is published by the um Broadway play publishing company is called interchange and it it's a one act play made up of 19 very short little vignette type scenes all about finances”
Where to get it
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The Gathering
Discussed“I read the Green Road and I'm now reading her uh book or winning novel The Gathering and I don't read a lot of Irish fiction”
Where to get it
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The Green Road
Discussed“I read the Green Road and I'm now reading her uh book or winning novel The Gathering and I don't read a lot of Irish fiction”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“because Jen senior one of our daily book critics reviewed his new collection of short stories called trajectory and it just kind of”
“It was his second book his first novel was a book called Mohawk and this book was also set in the same fictional Upstate Town”
“it's not 1300 Pages like the power broker but it's another thick thorny very involved book”