Episode · The Book Review · 2020-07-17
Books mentioned on Newt Gingrich and the Start of an Era
Gilbert Cruz discussed Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford. Elizabeth Harris discussed A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy and others. Lauren Christensen recommended Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement. Elisabeth Egan recommended Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan. Pamela Paul discussed Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Notes on a Silencing
Discussed“lcy Crawford joins us to talk about her Memoir notes on a silencing Elizabeth Harris will give us an update from the publishing world”
Where to get it
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A Journal for Jordan
Discussed“she wrote a bestselling Memoir called journal for Jordan which was about her experience with her partner First Sergeant Charles King who died in Iraq in 2006”
Where to get it
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Widow Basquiat
Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement is a biographical portrait of Suzanne Mallouk, the bohemian muse, musician, and primary romantic partner of the iconic 1980s New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Recommended“and one of the books that I chose immediately was Widow basat by Jenifer Clement”
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Friends and Strangers
Friends and Strangers is a contemporary novel by J.
Recommended“I am reading for the second time in one year a book called friends and strangers it's by Jay Courtney Sullivan”
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Born a Crime
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is a critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir detailing the comedian's extraordinary upbringing as the child of a white Swiss father and a Black Xhosa mother in apartheid South Africa, where his very existence was illegal.
Discussed“I just read years after everyone else read it which is the way I roll with anything that lands in the best s list Trevor was Memoir born a crime”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“lazy Crawford's new book is called notes on a silencing”
“and yeah commencement was her first book”
“and then Maine which is about a family”
“I think the next one was the engagements and then Saints for All Occasions”
“I think the next one was the engagements and then Saints for All Occasions”