Episode · The Book Review · 2018-05-18
Books mentioned on Lost at Sea
Pamela Paul discussed Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade. Rachel Slade discussed The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. Dwight Garner discussed The new journalism by Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, and The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Harold Augenbraum discussed Why does the world exist? by Jim Holt. Jennifer Szalai discussed The restless wave by John McCain and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade is a work of narrative non-fiction detailing the tragic fate of a ship and its crew caught in a devastating hurricane.
Discussed“Rachel Slade will tell us about her new book into the Raging Sea 33 Mariners one megga storm and the sinking of alaro”
Where to get it
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The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger is a gripping non-fiction narrative detailing the harrowing final hours of a commercial fishing crew caught in a historic, destructive maritime tempest off the coast of New England.
Discussed“because whereas Sebastian younger didn't know just had to kind of speculate and and infer what happened during those last hours for The Perfect Storm”
Where to get it
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The new journalism
Tom Wolfe's anthology The New Journalism is a landmark collection showcasing the innovative literary techniques adopted by non-fiction writers in the mid-twentieth century.
Discussed“of course he wants to be an old journalist when you're young but um in thanks to Tom Wolf's Anthology the new journalism in which he packaged a lot of writers who weren't really”
Where to get it
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe is a classic work of New Journalism chronicling Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and their psychedelic adventures across America in the 1960s.
Discussed“um and reading books like the electri coate acid test about the bus and Ken key so different from his pieces about say Lena Bernstein and maing the FL catchers”
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe is a classic account documenting the early days of the United States space program and the test pilots turned astronauts of the Mercury project.
Discussed“going to NASA and writing one of the great histories of NASA I mean here was the right stuff you know here was a writer in full even before we get to the fiction”
Where to get it
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a satirical novel chronicling ambition, greed, and urban decay in 1980s New York City.
Discussed“there are many people including Harold Bloom who would take bonfire the vanities over John Up's best work”
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Why does the world exist?
Discussed“he wrote a beautiful book a few years ago called why does the world exist”
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The restless wave
Discussed“yes so John McCain's newest book which is called the Restless wave”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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“I work for all these places in my era the big paperback was world according to GARP which came in a thousand different colors”