Episode · The Book Review · 2017-04-28
Sheryl Sandberg on The Book Review: books mentioned
Sheryl Sandberg on Life After Tragedy
Gilbert Cruz discussed Option B Facing Adversity Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Saraswati Biswas and others and Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen. Pamela Paul discussed The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen and A Good Life by Ben Bradlee and others. Jennifer Schuessler recommended Too Much to Know by Ann M. Blair and How to do things with books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price, and discussed So many books by Gabriel Zaid. Also mentioned: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Hallelujah Anyway by Anne Lamott, and All new people by Anne Lamott.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Option B Facing Adversity Building Resilience and Finding Joy
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant is a poignant guide on overcoming profound personal tragedy and cultivating mental resilience.
Discussed“she'll join us along with her best-selling co-author Adam Grant to talk about their new book option b”
Where to get it
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Phenomena
Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen is an investigative history examining the United States government's secret research into extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, and remote viewing.
Discussed“Annie Jacobson will tell us about her new book phenomena the secret history of the US government's investigations into extra sensory perception and psychokinesis”
Where to get it
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The Pentagon's Brain
The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen is a comprehensive nonfiction investigation into the origins, history, and profound technological impact of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, commonly known as DARPA.
Discussed“your third book the one that you wrote immediately before this was a Pulitzer Prize finalist the pentagon's brain”
Where to get it
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is a historical fiction novel that follows Abraham Lincoln in a Washington cemetery grieving his young son Willie amid a supernatural bardo of ghosts.
Recommended“I'm finally reading Lincoln in the Bardo which is the first novel by George Saunders”
Where to get it
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Hallelujah Anyway
Discussed“I've been thinking a little bit about Ann Lamont because she's back on the non-fiction hard cover bestseller list with another kind of Christian celebration called Hallelujah anyway”
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All new people
Discussed“but I I went back and I've been reading her 1989 novel all new people which is very much to the point of a book as kind of a a frozen moment in time”
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Too Much to Know
Too Much to Know by Harvard historian Ann M.
Recommended“bring me that one immediately a great book by the Harvard historian Anne Blair called too much to know managing scholarly information before the Modern Age”
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How to do things with books in Victorian Britain
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price is an insightful work of cultural history that examines how nineteenth-century readers interacted physically with books, moving beyond mere reading to explore books as objects, gifts, and tools.
Recommended“Leah Price another um scholar at Harvard wrote this great book called how to do things with Victorian books which just all about”
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So many books
Discussed“it was published I think in the early 2000s by in Translation it's by this Mexican literary critic named Gabriel Zed it was called so many books”
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A Good Life
A Good Life is a memoir by Ben Bradlee, Jr.
Discussed“what I'm reading is still the Ben Bradley Memoir a good life which is really enjoyable”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Cheryl Samberg is is of course also the author of lean in and the COO of Facebook and Adam Grant best-selling author of originals and give and take”
“Cheryl Samberg is is of course also the author of lean in and the COO of Facebook and Adam Grant best-selling author of originals and give and take”
“Cheryl Samberg is is of course also the author of lean in and the COO of Facebook and Adam Grant best-selling author of originals and give and take”
“people forget that back before she did the Christian books back even before she did operating instructions and bird by bird her her writing manual”
“people forget that back before she did the Christian books back even before she did operating instructions and bird by bird her her writing manual”
“it made me think about Walter benyamine wrote this famous essay called unpacking my library and I've been going around joking like I want to write an essay called de accommodating my library”
“I found weird things like this book called the humanure handbook which was this kind of hippie how-to book about composting human waste”
“and then there was this book which I was going to toss and then I'm like no I have to keep this called The Accidental diarist a history of the daily planner in America”
“there was also this great book I haven't read it so I can't say it's a great book greatl looking book by Anthony Grafton the Renaissance or the early modern historian at Princeton called the culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe”