📚 5 Books mentioned in "Suzanne Gluck: “I’m a Person Who Can Convince Other People to Do Things” | Episode 10" of People I (Mostly) Admire

This year at the National Book Awards, I was very excited because I had to duck and run between tables because Sarah Broom, who wrote the memoir The Yellow House, was up for a National Book Award as was my other client, Julia Phillips, who wrote Disappearing Earth, which she was up for fiction.

Suzanne Gluck mentions the book 'Disappearing Earth' by Julia Phillips while discussing her clients nominated for the National Book Award. She highlights the excitement around both Julia Phillips and Sarah Broom being contenders.

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So then we talked, and I have to say it took all of your persuasive powers not even to make a book like Freakonomics happen, but even to get Dubner and me to talk on the phone because I would say that we left that New York Times piece not particularly cordial because again I was super anti-social at the time and didn't really want to be written about.

In this section, Steve Levitt discusses the challenges faced in bringing the book 'Freakonomics' to fruition. He recalls how it required significant persuasion to connect with his co-author, Stephen Dubner, despite having left a previous conversation on a less than cordial note.

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Well, of late, one of the novels that I'm very proud of is Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, which I assure you many people you know have read and loved.

Suzanne Gluck, a literary agent, proudly discusses 'Pachinko' by Min Jin Lee, highlighting its popularity among readers and her admiration for the novel.

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I think that for anybody who has daughters, you should make them read 'She Said,' which is Watergate for girls; it's the New York Times reporters writing about breaking the Harvey Weinstein story and the reluctance of women to come forward.

Suzanne Gluck recommends reading 'She Said' by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein story. She suggests this book especially for people with daughters to help them understand the dynamics of the MeToo movement.

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This year at the National Book Awards, I was very excited because I had to duck and run between tables because Sarah Broom, who wrote the memoir The Yellow House, was up for a National Book Award as was my other client, Julia Phillips, who wrote Disappearing Earth, which she was up for fiction.

During a discussion about the National Book Awards, Suzanne Gluck expressed her excitement about Sarah Broom's memoir 'The Yellow House' being nominated, along with another client, Julia Phillips, whose book 'Disappearing Earth' was also nominated for fiction.

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