Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Lives on the Line
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Against Love
Against Love by Laura Kipnis is a provocative polemic that critically examines the institution of monogamy and the societal expectations surrounding long-term romantic relationships.
Discussed“she wrote a book called against love she also I think the subtitle of that book was a pmic”
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Unwanted Advances
Unwanted Advances by Laura Kipnis is an investigative critique that examines how contemporary university policies surrounding campus sexual assault investigations can undermine due process and intellectual freedom.
Discussed“she's also the author of The each spot the feminist Pursuit of Happiness and this week she reviews two books about sexual assault on campus unwanted advances sexual paranoia comes to campus by Laura kipness and the campus rape frenzy the attack on due process at America's universities by Casey Johnson and Stuart Taylor”
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A Kids' Guide to America's First Ladies
Discussed“here's from a kid's guide to America's First Ladies First Ladies Like Pat Nixon and Betty Ford worked as models but Melania is the only one to have had a successful career and also the only one who posed nude at 5'11”
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Ghachar Ghochar
Ghachar Ghochar is a striking, compact novel by Vivek Shanbhag that delves into the complex dynamics of a South Indian family experiencing a sudden and dramatic shift in their financial fortunes.
Recommended“but I do want to talk about a book I just finished and that I've written about in this week's oh it's the review is uh the essay is coming out in in this week's book review and it's a book called kater goer”
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Approaching Eye Level
Approaching Eye Level is a compelling essay collection by Vivian Gornick that explores urban life, feminism, and personal observation through the author's sharp, distinctive lens.
Recommended“she hasn't written a ton and I thought that I'd read all of them but there's this collection called approaching eye level which uh I took with me on a recent brief vacation and it's really great”
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Odd Woman and the City
Odd Woman and the City is a sharp and introspective memoir by Vivian Gornick that explores urban life, solitude, and female friendship through observant walks around New York City.
Discussed“and she wrote about it a lot in her last Memoir uh the odd woman in the city which is another very good book and I thought that the whole book was going to be that kind of just riffing on walking around the streets of New York”
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The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A.
Discussed“well um I'm still of course reading the power broker but it's raining today and that's a book that's really literally too big to fit in my work Satchel”
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The belly of Paris
The Belly of Paris by Émile Zola is a sweeping naturalistic novel depicting the vibrant, bustling world of the Parisian central markets during the Second Empire.
Discussed“um but I'm reading the belly of Paris by Emil zolah which is sort of part of my project that began with Le misera to actually finally read French books that I had been putting off”
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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“the only other Zola that I've read is germinal and I loved that book so much because of its realism and the depiction of the coal miners”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so one thing I do like about the translation which is by Mark klansky or about this Edition is that he also writes the introduction and klansky wrote the book Cod”