Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley
Pamela Paul discussed The Fire Is upon Us by Nicholas Buccola, How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones, and The Problem with Everything by Meghan Daum. Gilbert Cruz discussed God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley. Concepción De León discussed Poems: North & south by Elizabeth Bishop. Saeed Jones discussed The Liars' Club by Mary Karr and Cherry by Mary Karr. Tina Jordan discussed Mrs Delany by Clarissa Campbell Orr. John Williams discussed The Known World by Edward P. Jones. Greg Cowles discussed Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. Also mentioned: Beyond the melting pot by Nathan Glazer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Fire Is upon Us
The Fire Is upon Us by Nicholas Buccola is a dual biography and intellectual history that explores the legendary 1965 debate at Cambridge University between civil rights icon James Baldwin and conservative philosopher William F.
Discussed“Nicholas bua will be here to talk about his book The Fire is upon us”
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How We Fight For Our Lives
Discussed“poet and now memoirist say Jones will be here to talk about his book how we fight for our lives”
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God and Man at Yale
God and Man at Yale by William F.
Discussed“that's a good moment to just pivot quickly to Buckley because we associate him so much with the institutions that he attended of course God and man at Yale”
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Beyond the melting pot
Beyond the Melting Pot by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan is a seminal 1963 sociological study examining the persistence of ethnic and racial identities among major groups in New York City.
Recommended“I urge those of you who have a a who have an actual rather than a purely ideologized interest in the problem to read the book beyond the melting part by Professor Glazer also co-author of the Lonely crowd”
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Poems: North & south
Discussed“one interesting thing is that Elizabeth Bishop spent about a decade in her life in Key West and she wrote her first poetry collection there North and South and so it really had a huge influence on her work”
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The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr is a celebrated memoir that recounts the author's turbulent, vivid childhood in a Texas refinery town marked by eccentric family dynamics and dark secrets.
Discussed“so you know I paid and Mary Carr her work is just really important to me so I read a lot about and it's great right because you know those like the Liars club and Cherry have been out for years”
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Cherry
Discussed“so you know I paid and Mary Carr her work is just really important to me so I read a lot about and it's great right because you know those like the Liars club and Cherry have been out for years”
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Mrs Delany
Discussed“I'm reading a book called Mrs Delaney a Life by Clarissa Campbell or and it's a biography of an 18th century collage artist told largely through the letters that she wrote”
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The Known World
The Known World by Edward P.
Discussed“it's a novel called the Known World by Edward p Jones”
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Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson's novel Nothing to See Here is a darkly humorous story about a woman who is hired to babysit twins who spontaneously combust when they become upset.
Discussed“right now I'm reading the novel nothing to see here by Kevin Wilson which was just reviewed on our cover by Taffy briser anner”
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The Problem with Everything
Discussed“it's Megan D's new essay collection the problem with everything my journey through the new culture wars”
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Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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“his two previous books were the essential Douglas and Abraham Lincoln and liberal democracy”
“his two previous books were the essential Douglas and Abraham Lincoln and liberal democracy”
“I urge those of you who have a a who have an actual rather than a purely ideologized interest in the problem to read the book beyond the melting part by Professor Glazer also co-author of the Lonely crowd”
“it reminded me a little bit of who is Rich by Matthew clam which also has this sense of an outsider coming into a very privileged world”
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“I will say it took me about 2 and a/2 years to get through ulses”