Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Kurt Andersen on ‘Evil Geniuses’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hiroshima
John Hersey's groundbreaking work of narrative reportage, Hiroshima, documents the devastating atomic bombing of the Japanese city through the personal accounts of six survivors.
Discussed“and was John her's book which was a first of course a uh an issue length article in the New Yorker was that a kind of turning point”
Where to get it
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a classic modernist novel that captures the disillusionment of the Lost Generation through a group of American and British expatriates traveling to the festival of San Fermín in Pamplona.
Discussed“your first book about a book was also a book about war um you know he previously wrote about how many ways The Sun Also Rises”
Where to get it
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Hamnet
Hamnet is a deeply moving historical novel by Maggie O'Farrell that imagines the domestic life of William Shakespeare and the profound grief surrounding the death of his young son.
Discussed“I'm reading Maggie o Farrell's new novel hamnet which as readers of Geraldine Brooks's very favorable cover review in the book review will know is about Shakespeare's family”
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“so I am reading mating which is Norman Rush's first novel for which he won the national book award”
Where to get it
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A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet’s novel A Children's Bible follows a group of rebellious youths navigating an apocalyptic landscape after ecological collapse upends adult society.
Discussed“and the book I want to talk about this week is is Lydia Mill it's a children's Bible”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he'd won the fitzer for his 1944 War novel Bel for Adano”
“I have not read Hiroshima since I think 9th grade in High School when it was assigned and I don't know if it's still assigned with the same regularity”
“books like the Mary Trump the Stephanie Meyer which was sort of a surprise not not a surprise hit but it was announced and then quickly released John Bolton Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games author all those books have sold more than a million copies”
“I spoke last week about Yoko ogawa's the memory police”
“I'm reading hamnet by Maggie o farell”
“I'm reading mating by Norman rush”
“and I just finished reading a children's Bible by Lydia Millet”