Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Kate Atkinson on 'Transcription'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Transcription
Transcription by Kate Atkinson is a historical spy novel that follows a young woman recruited to monitor British fascist sympathizers during the Second World War.
Discussed“and her latest novel transcription”
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American prison
American Prison by Shane Bauer is a compelling investigative non-fiction book that explores the author's undercover experiences working as a guard in a private corporate prison.
Recommended“it's called American prison a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment by Shane Bower and it's reviewed this week on the cover of the book review”
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A god in ruins
A god in ruins by Kate Atkinson is a companion novel and sequel to Life After Life, following the life of Teddy Todd during and after the London World War II Blitz era.
Discussed“this is her third novel in a row that's kind of taken place in the same sort of London World War II Blitz era period the first life after life then a God in Ruins”
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Life After Life
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson is a celebrated novel that follows protagonist Ursula Todd as she repeatedly dies and is reborn across different eras of the twentieth century, most notably the Second World War.
Discussed“I mean I thought Life After Life says I don't write beautiful sentences which I think do write beautiful sentences”
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Orlando
Orlando by Virginia Woolf is a landmark modernist novel about a poet who changes sex across centuries and lives.
Discussed“it's a bit like Wolf's Orlando”
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Jesus' son
Jesus' Son is a potent and slender 1992 short story collection by Denis Johnson that portrays the chaotic, gritty lives of marginal figures through the perspective of an unreliable narrator.
Discussed“and they're just like Jesus's son”
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Jack Robinson
Robinson by Jack Robinson is a novel published by a small independent press.
Recommended“it's called Robinson it's by a writer named Jack Robinson and that's actually a pen name for a British publisher named Charles Bole and he he runs this small publishing company that publishes this book and others”
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is an enduring adventure novel published in 1719 about a castaway who spends decades isolated on a remote tropical island facing numerous perils.
Discussed“it's about having read Robinson cruso as a British school child and and about how Robinson cruso”
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Foe
Foe by J.
Discussed“and one of the many that he mentions is a novel called foe fo OE by JM CA and I hadn't read Cay in a while so I picked up this also kind of Slender novel”
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“Greg what do you have in front of you other than you do have ulyses I I did bring Ulisses with me because it's been a while since I've talked about it except to kind of to mention in passing that I'm still reading it”
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The Great Believers
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai is a powerful, emotionally devastating novel that chronicles the devastating impact of the AIDS crisis on the arts community in 1980s Chicago alongside a parallel storyline in modern-day Paris.
Discussed“I'm at the same time um reading Rebecca makai's the great Believers which Michael Cunningham reviewed on the cover of the book review earlier this year”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“in which I was assigned to read Robinson cruso”
“so there's all this sort of like people talk about Philip Roth American pastoral”
“and I was reading this actually at the same time that I was reading Bob Woodward's fear”
“so we already see that we're talking about the Magic Mountain”