Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Lost at Sea
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger is a gripping nonfiction narrative detailing the harrowing fate of the commercial fishing vessel Andrea Gail and its crew caught in the unprecedented 1991 'Halloween Nor'Easter.' On The Book Review, Rachel Slade compared her own investigative research for a maritime book to the speculative and inferential approach Junger utilized to reconstruct the final hours of the doomed crew.
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”
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The new journalism
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”
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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 that chronicles the countercultural adventures of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during the 1960s psychedelic movement.
Recommended“I think several the books I think people are going to be reading the electric coate acid test for as long as people are reading books”
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff is Tom Wolfe's classic 1979 non-fiction chronicle of the U.S.
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”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a satirical novel that exposes the intense social stratification, financial greed, and urban dysfunction of 1980s New York City.
Recommended“I think several the books I think people are going to be reading the electric coate acid test for as long as people are reading books um bonfire I think it's such a joy ride and it's so smart”
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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”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and you know we we've got the odssey Tempest Moby Dick Perfect Storm”
“I work for all these places in my era the big paperback was world according to GARP which came in a thousand different colors”