Episode · The Book Review · 2018-04-13
Books mentioned on Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens
Gilbert Cruz discussed The Art of Screen Time by Anya Kamenetz, Be the Parent, Please : Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat by Naomi Schaefer Riley, and There are no children here by Alex Kotlowitz. Greg Cowles recommended Ulysses by James Joyce, and discussed A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and others. Gal Beckerman recommended The flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner and others. Tina Jordan recommended Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad. John Williams recommended The evenings by Gerard Reve.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Art of Screen Time
Discussed“Pamela duerman will be here to talk about two new books The Art of screen time and be the parent please”
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Be the Parent, Please : Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat
Discussed“Pamela duerman will be here to talk about two new books The Art of screen time and be the parent please”
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There are no children here
Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here is a powerful 1991 non-fiction book that chronicles the lives of two brothers growing up amidst extreme violence in Chicago's public housing.
Discussed“and I know this is about a different Chicago housing project that Henry her projects but there was that Alex CT's book There Are No Children Here about sort of what this what did this do to the community life in Cabrini Green”
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Ulysses
James Joyce's landmark modernist novel Ulysses chronicles an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mapping human consciousness and daily existence through a revolutionary stream-of-consciousness technique.
Recommended“I am still Yes reading a book called ulses by James Joyce”
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is a seminal modernist coming-of-age novel that chronicles the intellectual and spiritual awakening of its young protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, against the backdrop of late nineteenth-century Ireland.
Discussed“because this he's the character and portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I'm accustomed to thinking of deus as the James Joyce character”
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The flamethrowers
"The Flamethrowers" by Rachel Kushner is a compelling novel that delves into the 1970s New York art scene, motorcycle racing, and socialist uprisings in Italy.
Recommended“I'm reading Rachel kushner's the flamethrowers I saw that she has a new book coming out the mar room I believe it's called April 15th”
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Two Sisters
Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad is a journalistic account examining two Norwegian sisters who left their home to join ISIS in Syria and their desperate father's attempts to bring them back.
Recommended“I have something brand new I'm actually reading Two Sisters by osne syad which was recently reviewed by parl for us”
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The evenings
The evenings by Gerard Reve is a celebrated mid-century Dutch novel translated into English, known for its bleak yet darkly humorous depiction of postwar alienation through the daily life of a young office clerk.
Recommended“well anyway well speaking of that General region the world I'm I'm reading a book that I'll be brief about because I only just started it uh a couple of days ago and I'm only about 50 pages in but it's a book called the evenings it's a novel by Gerard reev RVE and it was published in 1947”
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Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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“she is a contributing opinion writer for the times the author of bringing up babay and the forthcoming”
“Pamela jerman is a contributing opinion writer for the times she she is the author of an excellent book bringing up babay and the forthcoming there are no grown-ups a midlife Coming of Age story this week in the book review she wrote about two books about parenting and screen time”
“Pamela jerman is a contributing opinion writer for the times she she is the author of an excellent book bringing up babay and the forthcoming there are no grown-ups a midlife Coming of Age story this week in the book review she wrote about two books about parenting and screen time the art of screen time by Ana KET and”
“Pamela jerman is a contributing opinion writer for the times she she is the author of an excellent book bringing up babay and the forthcoming there are no grown-ups a midlife Coming of Age story this week in the book review she wrote about two books about parenting and screen time the art of screen time by Ana KET and”
“Pamela jerman is a contributing opinion writer for the times she she is the author of an excellent book bringing up babay and the forthcoming there are no grown-ups a midlife Coming of Age story this week in the book review she wrote about two books about parenting and screen time”
“well actually I I feel like I'm making pretty good progress in this compared with the power broker which I feel like I was reading for 30 years”
“if he chooses Finnegan's wake next that's it might happen”
“I'm reading Rachel kushner's the flamethrowers I saw that she has a new book coming out the mar room I believe it's called April 15th”
“and her I mean her previous book was the one about the book seller of coule”
“she wrote a book called one of us about braik the the man who massacred the students in Norway and and it was on our to one of our top”