Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Robert Caro on How He Does It
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Working
Working by Robert A.
Recommended“but also there is really a lot of insight into that in this new book which is a fascinating behind the scenes the book again is called working researching interview viewing and writing by Robert Caro Bob it has been such a pleasure having you here”
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Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate by Robert A.
Discussed“so I want to talk about because you're working in on the book and its entirety about the structure specifically of Master of the Senate”
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“so in order to get enough money to finish the power broker I had to sign a two Brook contract the second book was for a biography of Fel LaGuardia”
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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
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
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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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Power Broker
“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”
Passing Master of the Senate
“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”
Passing Working
“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”
Passing Bastards of the Reagan era
“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”
Passing Felon
“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”