Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Mary Beard on 'Women & Power'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Women and Power
Women and Power by Mary Beard is a concise and impactful manifesto that examines the historical roots of misogyny and the structural silencing of women in public life.
Recommended“the book again is called women in power a Manifesto by Mary beard”
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey by Homer is an ancient Greek epic poem that follows the arduous ten-year journey of Odysseus returning home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
Discussed“for those who don't necessarily think of Homer in this way or immediately know what this anecdote is is tell us it's very beginning of the Odyssey”
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Understanding Comics
Discussed“so the cartoonist and Comics serus Scott McLoud in his 1993 book understanding Comics put forward that awkward syntax”
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Seduction of the Innocent
Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham is a notorious 1954 psychological book that argued comic books negatively influenced children and contributed to juvenile delinquency.
Discussed“but I think the real shift started to happen in the 1950s and in the 1960s because the psychiatrist Frederick Wortham published um his bestselling book called seduction of the innocent in 1954”
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The Ten-Cent Plague
The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu is a comprehensive historical non-fiction book that explores the cultural panic surrounding comic books and the subsequent censorship movement in mid-century America.
Recommended“this was chronicled very beautifully by David hadu in his book 10cent plague from a number of years ago”
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A Contract With God
Discussed“the very first book that had the words a graphic novel on the cover was will eisner's book a contract with God which was published in 1978 and Eisner claims to have coined this term”
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Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
Discussed“but I actually think that the work called this is kind of a mouthful Binky Brown meets the holy Virgin Mary which is a 44 page comic book from 1972 might qualify in my mind if I'm thinking of substance”
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman is a landmark graphic novel that portrays the horrors of the Holocaust through anthropomorphic animal symbolism.
Discussed“so Arts spelman's mouth the first volume came out in 1986”
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Monograph by Chris Ware
Monograph by Chris Ware is an immersive, beautifully designed visual book that explores the intricate cartooning and artistic process of the renowned graphic novelist.
Recommended“I would highly recommend Chris wear's book monograph which just came out”
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Building stories
Building Stories by Chris Ware is an innovative and terrain-shifting graphic novel published in 2012 that is famously packaged as a box set containing a variety of print formats.
Discussed“and and one of his more recent terrain shifting moments for Comics was the publication in 2012 of his book Building stories which is a book in a box”
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Angle of repose
Angle of repose by Wallace Stegner is a sweeping historical fiction novel that follows a retired historian confined to a wheelchair who researches his grandparents' lives on the American frontier.
Discussed“that is Wallace stagner and I'm reading what's considered his Masterpiece angle of repose which is a big kind of family epic set in the frontier days”
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Omensetter's Luck
Discussed“and I decided that I would try to start again a book that I never finished by him Omen Setter's luck and I think I'm failing again at Omen Setter's luck”
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Life sentences
Discussed“and then I was also dipping into some of his essays and he's you know he had put out several really Sublime Collections and this one is life sentences which I think might have been the last essay collection he put out in 2012”
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Outer Dark
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, atmospheric southern Gothic novel that forms the second book in the acclaimed author's early trilogy.
Discussed“im reading outer dark which is the second of his first three novels and the third that I'm reading on this little jaunt I'm on”
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The Idiot
The Idiot by Elif Batuman is a brilliant coming-of-age novel that follows a young woman navigating her freshman year at Harvard and her nascent, epistolary romance with an older student.
Recommended“so I also decided this week to read something else alongside it which I won't talk because you guys have all read it recently and talked about on the podcast which is ell Bachman's the idiot”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“the public voice of women was one and women empowers the other”
“there's the comic book which was really popularized in 1938 with the first issue of Action Comics which is the first appearance of a superhero”
“and Garfield”
“she's very famous now for fun home and and her other current works”
“it's a book that puts me a bit in mind of Carol Shield's Stone Diaries or the novel Stoner by John Williams in that sweeping look at an American Life”
“it's a book that puts me a bit in mind of Carol Shield's Stone Diaries or the novel Stoner by John Williams in that sweeping look at an American Life”