Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Giving Up the Ghost
Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel is a poignant memoir that reflects on the author's childhood, health struggles, and the formative experiences that shaped her literary imagination.
Discussed“like Hillary mantel's giving up the ghost for example is not a Soup To Nuts”
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A childhood, the biography of a place
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews is a evocative and gritty memoir in which the author chronicles his formative early years growing up in a deeply impoverished, isolated farming community in rural Georgia.
Discussed“yeah one of my favorite books on here which is a childhood by Harry Cruz I think only covers maybe the first five or six years of his life his early childhood at least”
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Dancing with Cuba
Dancing with Cuba is an evocative memoir by Alma Guillermoprieto that recounts her transformative experiences living and teaching dance in revolutionary Cuba.
Discussed“yeah other ones I'm all gto's Memoir I hope I pronounced her name correctly dancing with cubis”
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Stop-time
Stop-Time by Frank Conroy is a classic, beautifully rendered memoir that recounts the author's turbulent and eccentric childhood growing up in America.
Discussed“for me I missed were uh stop time which is Frank Conroy Memoir which is beautiful”
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With the Old Breed
With the Old Breed is a harrowing and widely acclaimed military memoir by E.
Discussed“and the other one is is a military Memoir called with the old Breed by a man named eie Sledge”
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle is Jeannette Walls's acclaimed memoir detailing her eccentric, impoverished, and nomadic upbringing with deeply flawed parents.
Discussed“and some of them you mentioned I think The Glass Castle and the Liars club and there was Catherine Harrison's the kiss Memoirs that Were Somehow pivotal points”
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The Kiss
The Kiss is a controversial and boundary-pushing memoir by American author Kathryn Harrison that details her harrowing experiences with familial trauma.
Discussed“and some of them you mentioned I think The Glass Castle and the Liars club and there was Catherine Harrison's the kiss Memoirs that Were Somehow pivotal points”
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The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr is a seminal memoir recounting the author's turbulent upbringing in a Texas oil town.
Discussed“and some of them you mentioned I think The Glass Castle and the Liars club and there was Catherine Harrison's the kiss Memoirs that Were Somehow pivotal points”
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Fierce attachments
Vivian Gornick's 1987 memoir Fierce Attachments offers a searing, electric exploration of a complex relationship between a mother and her daughter in New York City.
Discussed“but like you talk about something like Fierce attachments and the way that it's just it's electric those pages especially those early first few paragraphs you know she's trying to create a grammar for this world”
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Travels with Lizbeth
Discussed“you look at someone like larser who wrote this Memoir called travels with lisabeth about a period of time when he was homeless on the streets of Austin Texas and elsewhere”
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Negroland
Margo Jefferson's Negroland is a powerful memoir exploring race, class, and the expectations placed upon the African American elite in mid-century America.
Discussed“Margot Jefferson's book negrand Bard Kafka was the rage”
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Unreliable memoirs
Clive James's Unreliable Memoirs is the celebrated first installment of the author's autobiographical writings, capturing his early life with wit and sharp observation.
Discussed“Clive James unreliable memo”
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Wave
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala is a harrowing and deeply moving memoir documenting the author's survival of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which tragically claimed the lives of her entire family, including her husband, two children, and parents.
Discussed“I reved wave and and I love W I had to be convinced by parl that was top 50”
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Growing up
Growing up is a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by American journalist, humorist, and columnist Russell Baker.
Discussed“and then Russell Baker comes to mind growing up he he wasn't a Serial memoirist”
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Open
Open by Andre Agassi is a remarkably candid and introspective autobiography detailing the tennis champion's tumultuous athletic career, his complicated relationship with his demanding father, and his deep-seated resentment of the sport that made him famous.
Discussed“well Andre Memoir open which is a pretty terrific book ghost written I mean by terrific writer JM minger”
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The Tender Bar
The Tender Bar by J.
Discussed“the tender bar which is was quite a good Memoir”
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Men We Reaped
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward is a powerful and poignant memoir that examines the tragic deaths of the author's brother and four other young Black men in her rural Mississippi community, exploring systemic poverty, racism, and grief.
Discussed“and how much can it be about other people too that came up with Jasmine Wards The Men We reaped as well”
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Patrimony
Patrimony by Philip Roth is a moving memoir detailing the author's relationship with his aging father and the harrowing experience of watching an 86-year-old parent face declining health.
Discussed“patrimony by Philip Roth”
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Fun
Fun Home is a critically acclaimed graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel that explores the author's complex relationship with her closeted father, her own coming out, and the literary allusions that shaped her upbringing.
Discussed“fun home by Allison beell”
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson is a deeply moving and searingly honest memoir in which the acclaimed author explores her traumatic adoption, her fierce intellectual awakening, and the lifelong quest to heal from emotional wounds inflicted by her fiercely religious adoptive mother.
Discussed“but it really is a lot about the Jette winteron as well why be happy when you could be normal”
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Priestdaddy
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood is a sharply witty and unconventional memoir recounting the author's eccentric upbringing in the Midwest as the daughter of a married Catholic priest.
Discussed“I mean Patricia Lockwood's priest daddy which is one of my favorite books on this list is um just the portrait of her father in that book is Central to it”
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Minor characters
Joyce Johnson's memoir Minor Characters provides a compelling look into the lives of women orbiting the Beat generation and sheds light on the heavily masculine atmosphere of that literary movement.
Discussed“include Joyce Johnson's minor characters which is down in the in the second half of the list I revered that book”
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Self-consciousness
Self-consciousness is an introspective memoir by American novelist and writer John Updike.
Discussed“uh high would be I think John Up's Memoir is self-consciousness it's a book that I I really admire”
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On Fire
On Fire is a collection of essays and autobiographical pieces by the late writer and Mississippi firefighter Larry Brown.
Discussed“and there's a smaller book which I just it's just one of my favorite books called on fire by a Mississippi fireman named Larry Brown who became a novelist”
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Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett is a 2004 memoir that chronicles the deeply complex and enduring friendship between the author and the late poet and essayist Lucy Grealy.
Discussed“that she's also the subject of another Memoir that we we considered and that people really love and patchet truth and Beauty which is about her friendship with gy”
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Experience
Experience by Martin Amis is a deeply reflective and acclaimed memoir by the celebrated British author, exploring his literary upbringing, his complex relationship with his father Kingsley Amis, and his broader observations on life and aging.
Discussed“and so does experience by Martin Amos yes the book I love is it's it's an untidy book but I love that book”
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Wild
Wild by Cheryl Strayed is a deeply personal memoir chronicling the author's grueling, transformative solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail following personal tragedy and hardship.
Discussed“Pamela mentioned The Glass Castle that's not on there Cheryl str's wild which I really enjoyed but didn't make the cut”
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Just Kids
Patti Smith's acclaimed memoir Just Kids chronicles her vibrant, bohemian youth in New York City alongside the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the late sixties and seventies.
Discussed“and maybe in particular Patty Smith just kids which some people on social media have already griped about”
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Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes is a poignant, harrowing, and darkly humorous memoir that chronicles the author's impoverished, deeply difficult childhood growing up amidst the grim backdrop of 1930s and 1940s Ireland.
Discussed“or Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes or This Boy's Life”
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This Boy's Life
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff is a classic American memoir detailing the author's tumultuous and rebellious childhood in the Pacific Northwest.
Discussed“Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes or This Boy's Life”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Yan wner the former editor of Rolling Stone magazine has just released a memoir titled not surprisingly perhaps Like a Rolling Stone”
“you had Tina Brown's Vanity Fair Diaries New York Magazine just had a huge coffee table 50-year anniversary”
“is that what you think made Rolling Stone as a magazine work that it transcended the music that it was also culture that was where bonfire the vanities was serialized the right stuff”
“is that what you think made Rolling Stone as a magazine work that it transcended the music that it was also culture that was where bonfire the vanities was serialized the right stuff”