Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Robert Caro on How He Does It
Gilbert Cruz discussed Working by Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro, and The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. John Williams recommended Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, and discussed Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli and others. Greg Cowles recommended Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong, and discussed Ulysses by James Joyce. Tina Jordan recommended The Magic of Handwriting. The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection by Christine Nelson. Pamela Paul recommended Hard news by Seth Mnookin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Working
Working by Robert A.
Discussed“and I'm curious you write about it a bit in working what it the difference was like for you writing the book”
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Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate by Robert A.
Discussed“and you start off Master of the Senate for example with a uh a woman who cannot vote it feels like your your your heart”
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“because with the power broker we know that about 350,000 words of this book did not end up in the final book”
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Lost Children Archive
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli is a sweeping, structurally inventive novel that weaves together themes of family road trips, the migration crisis at the southern U.S.
Recommended“I'm reading a book called Lost Children archive which got a lot of attention this year when it was published just a couple months ago I think by Valeria louisi”
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Faces in the Crowd
Discussed“I think one was called faces in the crowd and and there was another slender book and they were fairly short very beautiful very smart full of great imagery”
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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.
Discussed“well you haven't heard me talking about ulyses for a while and there's I that there is a good reason for that namely shame I've pretty much stalled out in the the long very long night Town section of ulses”
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Goodbye, Vitamin
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong is a poignant and humorous novel that follows a young woman who returns home to help care for her father, who has been diagnosed with dementia.
Recommended“at the same time I've also turned to a book that I had started a few years ago and had to put down for other reasons it it's a book called goodbye vitamin by a woman named Rachel Kong”
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The Magic of Handwriting. The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection
The Magic of Handwriting.
Recommended“I have the magic of handwriting which is the catalog that accompanied a an exhibit at the Morgan Library”
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Hard news
Hard News: 21 Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed American Media by Seth Mnookin is a piercing journalistic account of the intense internal turmoil, journalistic lapses, and high-profile scandals that shook the historic newspaper during a tumultuous period.
Recommended“the book is called hard News 21 brutal months at the New York Times and how they changed the American Media by Seth manukan and I read it I guess as a journalist would in you know a few hours it was like a day because it is really juicy and terrible”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“my interview with Robert Koo author of the power broker and the in progress five volume biography of lynon Johnson”
“my interview with Robert Koo author of the power broker and the in progress five volume biography of lynon Johnson”
“Bob came on to talk about his most recent book working but I had just finished reading Master of the Senate on my own so we talked about everything”
“Bob came on to talk about his most recent book working but I had just finished reading Master of the Senate on my own so we talked about everything”
“this week Reginal Dwayne Betts whose most recent book was Bastards of the Reagan Era and whose next book felon will be released in October reads May 24th 1980 by Joseph Brodsky”
“this week Reginal Dwayne Betts whose most recent book was Bastards of the Reagan Era and whose next book felon will be released in October reads May 24th 1980 by Joseph Brodsky”