Episode · The Book Review · 2021-11-19
Ross Douthat on The Book Review: books mentioned
Ross Douthat on Dealing With Lyme Disease
Gilbert Cruz recommended The Deep Places by Ross Douthat. Pamela Paul recommended The Overstory by Richard Powers, and discussed Nomadland by Jessica Bruder and Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold. Greg Cowles recommended Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson, and discussed Jesus' son by Denis Johnson. Andrew Lavallée recommended Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Deep Places
The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat is a powerful autobiographical account detailing the author's harrowing battle with chronic Lyme disease and his quest for healing.
Recommended“the book again is called the Deep places Memoir of illness and Discovery by Ross doit”
Where to get it
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Nomadland
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder is a work of investigative journalism that follows older Americans who have chosen or been forced to live itinerant, vehicular lifestyles while traveling across the United States for seasonal low-wage labor.
Discussed“You just mentioned Nomad land which was of course turned into a movie but originally a book by the journalist Jessica Bruder and you also recommend in the colum you compare it to that book and another non-fiction book by a journalist AMD and prosperity by Eliza grosswald”
Where to get it
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Amity and Prosperity
Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold is a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of investigative journalism that chronicles one Pennsylvania family's struggle against the environmental and social fallout of the fracking boom.
Discussed“You just mentioned Nomad land which was of course turned into a movie but originally a book by the journalist Jessica Bruder and you also recommend in the colum you compare it to that book and another non-fiction book by a journalist AMD and prosperity by Eliza grosswald”
Where to get it
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Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man is a novel by Denis Johnson that delves into intense psychological themes and complex human experiences characteristic of the author's distinctive literary style.
Recommended“well I'm reading a novel that came out in 1990 called resuscitation of a hanged man by Dennis Johnson it is his fourth novel and I think it was his last book before he became a big star”
Where to get it
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Jesus' son
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson is a slender, potent 1992 collection of interconnected short stories that explores the stark and harrowing experiences of its narrator and other fringe characters.
Discussed“and I also see why it didn't break through the way that Jesus's son did”
Where to get it
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Our Country Friends
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart is a pandemic-era novel that follows a group of friends who isolate together in a country house as the world shuts down.
Recommended“I am reading our country Friends by Gary steinard which is it just came out and it's getting a fair bit of attention as kind of being built as a pandemic novel”
Where to get it
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The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers is a sweeping, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that intertwines the lives of several Americans whose fates are connected to trees and environmental activism.
Recommended“so I recently read Richard pow's the overstory you know just like four years after everyone else read it”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (22) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Ross doit will be here to talk about his new book The Deep places A Memoir of illness and Discovery”
“he's the author of many books including the decadent Society to change the church Bad Religion and privilege”
“he's the author of many books including the decadent Society to change the church Bad Religion and privilege”
“he's the author of many books including the decadent Society to change the church Bad Religion and privilege”
“he's the author of many books including the decadent Society to change the church Bad Religion and privilege”
“and his latest book is called the Deep places A Memoir of illness and Recovery”
“Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club novelist had chronic lyme disease and wrote about it as you know she would like drive to the grocery store and forget what city she was in”
“this is Young yun's second book her first book is a thriller called shelter and oh beautiful follows a young woman”
“the award for fiction went to Jason mot who won for his novel hell of a book which weaves together three different narrative threads”
“the non-fiction winner was tyia Miles who won for all that she carried the Journey of Ashley sack a black family's Keepsake”
“the award for poetry went to Martinez bada for his book floaters which honors migrants who have drowned in the Rio Grand”
“the award for translated literature went to Winter and Soo which is by Alisa shua dapa translated from French by Ana Bas Higgins”
“then the award for young people's literature went to last night in Telegraph City by Melinda low which follows a queer 17-year-old in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare”
“Jesus's son”
“I've read Jesus's son of course and his other Story collection the postumus largess of the sea madeen and his debut novel angels”
“I've read Jesus's son of course and his other Story collection the postumus largess of the sea madeen and his debut novel angels”
“and then he won a national book award for his novel tree of smoke which I also read and it's kind of a prequel of sorts to Angels”
“and of course the book won the Pitzer prize and I read it right after reading bewilderment his new novel when he was a guest on this podcast to talk about that”
“one of the interesting stories was a fictionalized version of a real person who was a previous guest of the podcast Suzanne samard who wrote Finding the mother tree discovering the wisdom of the forest”
“I'm reading resuscitation of a hanged man by Dennis Johnson”
“and I'm reading our country Friends by Gary steinard and I read the overstory by Richard Powers”
“and I'm reading our country Friends by Gary steinard and I read the overstory by Richard Powers”