Episode · The Book Review · 2020-04-10
Robert Kolker on The Book Review: books mentioned
Robert Kolker Discusses 'Hidden Valley Road'
Pamela Paul recommended The plague and I. by Betty MacDonald and The egg and I by Betty MacDonald, and discussed Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker and Writers & Lovers by Lily King. Robert Kolker discussed I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Hannah Green. Dwight Garner discussed Mitch, Please! by Matt Jones. Jennifer Szalai recommended Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt and others and Severance by Ling Ma.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hidden Valley Road
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker is a deeply reported non-fiction work that chronicles the harrowing true story of a mid-century American family dealing with the devastating impact of schizophrenia across multiple children.
Discussed“Robert kker will be here to talk about his new book Hidden Valley Road”
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Discussed“I Never Promised You a Rose Garden the the general idea there is that there's a little girl who's trapped”
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Writers & Lovers
Writers & Lovers by Lily King is an acclaimed contemporary novel following a struggling writer navigating grief, romance, and artistic ambition.
Discussed“Elizabeth Egan joins us now to talk about her latest selection for group text which is Lily King's new book writers and lovers”
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Mitch, Please!
Discussed“it's called Mitch please the subtitle is how Mitch McConnell sold out Kentucky in America too”
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory is a historical non-fiction work by Claudio Saunt that examines the forced removal of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands.
Recommended“so a book that I reviewed recently that I wanted to draw attention to is called unworthy Republic and the subtitle is the dispossession of Native Americans in the road to Indian Territory and it's by a historian at the University of Georgia named Claudio SA”
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Severance
Severance is a satirical post-apocalyptic novel by Ling Ma that explores the mundane routines of office life set against the backdrop of a global pandemic.
Recommended“which is Ling m Severance have either of you oh I love that book I love love love that book talks about this future where or not future it's actually I think said in the past”
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The plague and I.
Betty MacDonald’s memoir The Plague and I recounts the author’s harrowing yet humorous experiences recovering from tuberculosis in a Washington state sanitarium.
Recommended“I want to recommend what I think is a really fun quarantine book and very funny I don't know if either of you have read it it's Betty McDonald's Memoir the plague and ey”
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The egg and I
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald is a humorous and widely celebrated 1945 memoir detailing the author's challenging yet comical experiences running a remote chicken ranch in the rugged mountains of Washington State with her newlywed husband.
Recommended“I want to recommend what I think is a really fun quarantine book and very funny I don't know if either of you have read it it's Betty McDonald's Memoir the plague and ey”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“we were last here for your previous book Lost Girl I want to talk about that a little bit later”
“Robert kker is the author of a Hidden Valley Road Inside the Mind of an American family”
“I know her as the author of euphoria which was one of our 10 best books of the year a few years back”
“one of the most high-profile titles which I think was a bit of a disappointment to people that were looking forward to it was the new Alina fante book The Lying life of adults and so that won't be coming out until September now”
“I ask about how good an introduction to the subject it is because I wonder if someone for example enjoyed David Gran's killers of the flower Moon and left that book feeling like okay now I know about this very specific incident”
“she wrote a number of Memoirs and the most famous of them is probably the egg and ie which was turned into movies”
“I reviewed Mitch please how Mitch McConnell sold out Kentucky in America 2 by Matt Jones with Chris Tomlin”
“and I reviewed unworthy Republic the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian Territory by Claudio Sant”
“and just in case people want to take notes the other book Jen recommended was Ling ma Severance”
“and I blathered on about Betty McDonald's the plague”
“and I blathered on about Betty McDonald's the plague”