Episode · The Book Review · 2021-07-16
S.A. Cosby on The Book Review: books mentioned (Jul 2021)
S.A. Cosby on 'Razorblade Tears'
Pamela Paul recommended The Stand by Stephen King and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and others, and discussed Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, and Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream by Dean Jobb. S.A. Cosby recommended A thousand acres by Jane Smiley and Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell and others, and discussed Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Elizabeth Harris discussed Deacon King Kong by James McBride and Emily Dickinson’s Poems by Emily Dickinson. Dwight Garner discussed Don't erase me by Carolyn Ferrell and Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell. Jennifer Szalai recommended Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen, and discussed Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Müller.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Razorblade Tears
Razorblade Tears by S.A.
Discussed“Cosby will be here to talk about his new novel razorblade tears”
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The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is a compelling contemporary novel that examines family, racial identity, and the choices that shape our lives through the lives of twin sisters who choose to live in very different worlds.
Discussed“and one instance of several in recent fiction that has made these connections I mean one I'm thinking of which is not Southern Gothic but Britt Bennett's book The Vanishing half”
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A thousand acres
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley is a celebrated contemporary novel that reimagines King Lear on a sprawling farm in rural Iowa, exploring deep family fractures, dark secrets, and rural life.
Recommended“one of my favorite books of all times is a book called A Thousand Acres by James M I love that book”
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound psychological novel that explores guilt, morality, and the severe consequences of moral relativism and nihilism.
Discussed“I mean one of the greatest books ever written is crime and punishment”
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Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell is a gritty, atmospheric Ozark noir novel about a young woman named Ree Dolly who searches for her missing, drug-dealing father to save her family from eviction.
Recommended“I defy anyone to read Winter's Bone by Daniel woodrell and tell me that's not a great piece of literature”
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The Stand
Stephen King's monumental post-apocalyptic epic The Stand details the devastating sweep of a weaponized influenza strain that wipes out the vast majority of humanity, leaving survivors to choose sides in a final conflict between good and evil.
Recommended“Tina Stephen King's The Stand”
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of narrative poems in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer that details the tales told by a diverse group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury.
Recommended“it has me wanting to turn back to the Canterbury Tales and I think that if I brought the canbury tales that possibly I could teach myself Middle English”
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Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
Discussed“joining me today is Dean job the author of The Case of the murderous Dr cream the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer”
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Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong by James McBride is a vibrant and humorous novel set in a 1960s Brooklyn housing project, following the chaotic fallout after an eccentric old church deacon shoots a local drug dealer.
Discussed“and uh the other thing I I just started Deacon King Kong which came out last year like two weeks before the world shut down”
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Emily Dickinson’s Poems
Discussed“and then the last thing I am reading is uh a collection of Emily Dickinson's poems called Emily Dickinson's poems as she preserved them by Christine Miller”
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Don't erase me
Discussed“one of her stories from her first collection which was titled don't erase me that was the book from 1997 was in that collection and it stuck with me”
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Dear Miss Metropolitan
Discussed“it's a novel called Dear Miss Metropolitan and boy it's a hard thing to read”
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Democracy Rules
Discussed“so this week I read democracy Rules by a political theorist at Princeton named Yan Verner Müller”
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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a historical novel by Rivka Galchen that offers a fictionalized account of the persecution of Katharina Kepler, the mother of astronomer Johannes Kepler, during a seventeenth-century witchcraft trial.
Recommended“but I started reading recently a book that I'm very much enjoying by Rifka gin it's a novel called everyone knows your mother is a witch and it's actually a fictionalized version of the story of Johan Kepler's mother”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Dean job will talk to my colleague Tina Jordan about his new book The Case of the murderous Dr Cream”
“specifically he is the author of the new book razorblade tear also black top Wasteland and a few other books”
“but both this novel and your immediate predecessor black top Wasteland are very much about fathers”
“sa Cosby's latest book is called razorblade tears”
“I read Dear Miss Metropolitan a novel by Carolyn Ferell”
“and I read democracy rules a book by Yan Verner Muller”