Episode · The Book Review · 2018-08-10
Lydia Millet on The Book Review: books mentioned
Lydia Millet on 'Fight No More'
Gilbert Cruz discussed Fight No More by Lydia Millet, Love in infant monkeys by Lydia Millet, Famous Father Girl by Jamie Bernstein, West Side story by Leonard Bernstein and others, and A life of my own by Claire Tomalin. Lydia Millet discussed Pills and starships by Lydia Millet, How the dead dream by Lydia Millet, and A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet and others. Alexandra Alter discussed Cherry by Nico Walker, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes, and Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Dwight Garner recommended Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe. Parul Sehgal discussed The tangled tree by David Quammen. Jennifer Szalai discussed Crashed by J. Adam Tooze.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Fight No More
Discussed“she'll be here to talk about her latest collection fight no more”
Where to get it
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Love in infant monkeys
Discussed“so your last Story collection as you said it's been a while was in 2010 love and infant monkeys that was a a Pulitzer priz finalist”
Where to get it
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Pills and starships
Discussed“I did one called uh pills and starships that that is classified as sort of ya”
Where to get it
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How the dead dream
Discussed“this Trilogy that I wrote that started with a book called How the dead dream so that was more about Extinction”
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“i' I've just finished a novel called a children's Bible That's not out yet”
Where to get it
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Famous Father Girl
Discussed“it's called famous father girl A Memoir of growing up”
Where to get it
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West Side story
Discussed“Westside Story is probably the most popular musical in American history and it's one of the greatest”
Where to get it
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Cherry
Cherry by Nico Walker is a gritty debut novel following an anonymous narrator who drops out of college to serve as an army medic in Iraq, only to return home battling severe PTSD and opioid addiction.
Discussed“so there's a novel that's coming out this month that really caught my attention it's coming out from Koff”
Where to get it
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic American novel chronicling a journey down the Mississippi River and exploring deep moral questions through the relationship between Huck and the runaway slave Jim.
Discussed“This is our prisoner on Huckleberry Finn Huck was the boy for me when I was a shaver”
Where to get it
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DON QUIXOTE
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is widely celebrated as one of the earliest modern novels and a foundational masterpiece of Western literature.
Discussed“here he is on Don kote this one grabs the cake cervante is one by a mile”
Where to get it
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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a sprawling satirical novel that chronicles the intertwined lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley against the backdrop of British society during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
Discussed“here he is on Vanity Fair by th Tha never did anything better than this”
Where to get it
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Love, Nina
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe is a charming epistolary memoir chronicling the author's experiences as a young nanny in 1980s London while working for Mary-Kay Wilmers.
Recommended“there's a beautiful book written by uh Mary Kay Wilmer is nanny called love Nina I love one my favorite books”
Where to get it
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A life of my own
Discussed“Alex tell us again the title of Claire's book it's called a life of My Own by Clare Tomlin”
Where to get it
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The tangled tree
The Tangled Tree by David Quammen is a groundbreaking non-fiction science book that chronicles the revolutionary history of evolutionary biology and horizontal gene transfer.
Discussed“I reviewed something that could conceive which I call it sort of like a biography of an idea it's a book by David Quan and it's called the Tangled tree”
Where to get it
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Crashed
Crashed by J.
Discussed“Jen what did you review this week so actually I I reviewed this book by Adam tw's called crashed which is about the financial crisis”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she was last year for her last novel sweet Lamb Of Heaven”
“I'm sure you're aware that I you know your review of spillover led me to that story which I thought was short story called walking out”