Episode · The Book Review · 2024-01-12
Steven Soderbergh on The Book Review: books mentioned (Jan 2024)
Steven Soderbergh on His Year in Reading
Steven Soderbergh recommended Pictures from an institution by Randall Jarrell and Determined by Robert M. Sapolsky, and discussed A child of the century by Ben Hecht. Gilbert Cruz discussed How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: The making of Stanley Kubrick's The shining by J. W. Rinzler and others, and Cocktails with George and Martha by Philip Gefter.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A child of the century
A Child of the Century is an expansive, substantial memoir written by the famous and skilled Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht.
Discussed“I thought this was a defect in my brain until I read this book written by the famous and skilled Hollywood screenwriter Ben heck a child of the century which is his door stop of a memoir”
Where to get it
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell is an engaging biographical exploration of the influential French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
Discussed“well this actually relates to one of the books you read which was a book called how to live a life of Mona by Sarah bwell so for those listeners who don't know who Sarah bwell is she is a writer who has written several books about philosophy the history of philosophy famous philosophers”
Where to get it
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Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: The making of Stanley Kubrick's The shining
Discussed“there's a book on here that I believe cost something like $2,000 it is tsh's making of The Shining book is that the one that I am thinking about it is”
Where to get it
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Cocktails with George and Martha
Cocktails with George and Martha by Philip Gefter is an in-depth behind-the-scenes account detailing the creation of Mike Nichols's classic cinematic adaptation of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? On The Book Review podcast, Gilbert Cruz brought up the book in conversation with Steven Soderbergh across multiple episodes.
Discussed“and there's a book you read last year that I believe is coming out here in the states at least in a couple weeks and this was cocktails with George and Martha it's a book about the making of Mike nichols's film who's Afraid of Virginia wolf”
Where to get it
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Pictures from an institution
Pictures from an Institution is a satirical novel written by the post-World War II poet and critic Randall Jarrell.
Recommended“uh it's a book called pictures from an institution by Rand Gerald Randall Gerald was a poet fairly well-known very respected poet and critic post-world War II and he wrote a single perfect novel and Mike gave it to me”
Where to get it
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Determined
Determined by Robert M.
Recommended“if you had to recommend one book that you really just want to stump for which one would it be well it's got to be the Robert spolski book determined this is seismic”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she wrote a book called at the existentialist Cafe this was about Jean Paul SRA kamu Simone DEA”
“what spurred you to read Americana the thing around your neck notes on Grief half of a yellow sun Purple Hibiscus well I'd heard about her so she was on my list”
“what spurred you to read Americana the thing around your neck notes on Grief half of a yellow sun Purple Hibiscus well I'd heard about her so she was on my list”
“what spurred you to read Americana the thing around your neck notes on Grief half of a yellow sun Purple Hibiscus well I'd heard about her so she was on my list”
“what spurred you to read Americana the thing around your neck notes on Grief half of a yellow sun Purple Hibiscus well I'd heard about her so she was on my list”