Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Leslie Jamison on Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Discussed“Leslie Jameson is here in the studio her most recent book is make it scream make it burn essays which was reviewed in the book review last fall”
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Weather
Weather by Jenny Offill is a contemporary novel that follows a young woman working in a New York City library who becomes entangled in an apocalyptic anxiety forum and the chaotic personal lives of those around her.
Discussed“let's talk about weather and let's start with what it's about even though you know as we I think people are probably sensing when you talk about Jenny oil's work it really isn't about plot”
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Last things
Last Things by Jenny Offill is a poignant debut novel that follows a young girl trying to make sense of her parents' crumbling marriage through the lens of art and science.
Discussed“this book weather is her third novel her first was last things and then it took her 15 years to write her next book”
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The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that follows several Americans whose lives connect through trees and their deep relationship with the natural world.
Discussed“although there are also books like Richard pow's the overstory sometimes metaphorical sometimes very reality based”
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Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick is a novel from the late 1970s that employs a fragmented and impressionistic narrative style.
Discussed“but you know in a way it's it feels in conversation with books like Elizabeth Hardwick's sleepless nights and rata Adler's speedboat”
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Speedboat
Speedboat by Renata Adler is a fragmentary, highly influential novel defined by its sharp observations and disjointed narrative style.
Discussed“but you know in a way it's it feels in conversation with books like Elizabeth Hardwick's sleepless nights and rata Adler's speedboat”
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Romance in Marseille
Discussed“including just this month Claude McKay's novel romance in Marseilles which was a novel of the Harlem Renaissance that took 87 years to finally come out but was published as a penguin classic”
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Bad Blood
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou is an investigative non-fiction book that exposes the massive fraud behind Theranos, the high-profile Silicon Valley blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
Discussed“I'm reading Bad Blood non-fiction by John kery R that's c a r r e y r o u”
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The birth partner
Discussed“the next book is the birth partner by penny simkin with Katie Ross and I am rereading this”
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The Hazel Wood
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert is a dark young adult fantasy novel centered on magic, fairy tales, and storytelling.
Discussed“well like Dave I'm going to talk about two books and these are both books that I read again I have to confess I'm still talking about the books I read during my now very long ago vacation but I just want to catch up with all them so two really different books one was a ya novel by the”
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The Night Country
Discussed“and then the second book that I read while I was away is called the night country which came out last fall”
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How to Do Nothing
How to Do Nothing is a cultural critique and guide by Jenny Odell that examines the attention economy and argues for deliberate disengagement from digital noise.
Discussed“and the other book that I read while I was away is called Jenny Odell's book how to do nothing which of course is a really excellent title the subtitle is resisting the attention economy”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Leslie Jameson is the author of four books make it scream make it burn essays the empathy exam also essays”
“make it scream make it burn essays the empathy exam also essays the Gin closet a novel and the recovering a memoir”
“the empathy exam also essays the Gin closet a novel and the recovering a memoir”
“the Gin closet a novel and the recovering a memoir”
“this week in the book review she reviews on our cover weather a novel by Jenny oel”