Episode · The Book Review · 2018-06-22
Books mentioned on The Life of Atticus Finch
Gilbert Cruz recommended Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys and Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, and discussed Atticus Finch by Joseph Crespino, The Fair Chase by Philip Dray, and Middlemarch by George Eliot. Joseph Crispino discussed To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee. Tina Jordan recommended Pale horse, pale rider by Katherine Anne Porter. John Williams recommended The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth, Zuckerman unbound by Philip Roth, and The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth. Lauren Christensen recommended The Girls by Emma Cline.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch by Joseph Crespino is a biographical study exploring Harper Lee, her father, and the creation of an American icon.
Discussed“Joseph crispino will be here to talk about his new book attakus Finch the biography Harper Lee her father and the making of an American icon”
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The Fair Chase
The Fair Chase by Philip Dray is an epic historical account examining the complex evolution of hunting in America and humanity's shifting relationship with wildlife.
Discussed“Philip Dre will join us to talk about his book fair chase the Epic story of hunting in America”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores themes of racial injustice, moral growth, and empathy in the American South through the eyes of young Scout Finch.
Discussed“and that's that's to Killa Mockingbird”
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Go Set A Watchman
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee is a novel written before To Kill a Mockingbird that follows an adult Scout returning to Maycomb, Alabama, and confronting her aging father's complex racial views.
Discussed“but what that changed in the summer of of 2015 with the publication of of ghost at a Watchmen”
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot is widely celebrated as a masterwork of Victorian literature, chronicling the lives and aspirations of provincial society in the fictional town of Middlemarch.
Discussed“you have a great epigraph to your book which I'm going to read and I want to hear the story behind why you chose that it's George Elliot and it comes from Middle March blameless people are always the most exasperating”
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Pale horse, pale rider
Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a collection of three interconnected novellas by Katherine Anne Porter that captures the psychological and emotional landscape of America during the influenza pandemic and the First World War.
Recommended“well one of the things I recently picked up was Pale Horse Pale Rider which is a collection of three novellas from kathern Anne Porter”
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The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth is a celebrated novel that follows a young aspiring writer visiting an older, established author, serving as the first book in the author's famous Zuckerman sequence.
Recommended“I'm r ing Philip Roth Zuckerman Trilogy and I actually reread the ghost writer the first book which I had read a few years ago”
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Zuckerman unbound
Zuckerman Unbound is a satirical novel by Philip Roth that explores the sudden fame and notoriety experienced by writer Nathan Zuckerman following the publication of a successful and controversial book.
Recommended“and then I read for the first time the next two Zuckerman Unbound and now I'm about a third of the way through the anatomy lesson”
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The Anatomy Lesson
The Anatomy Lesson is a classic novel by Philip Roth that continues the story of his recurring fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, as he faces a debilitating physical illness and a crisis regarding his literary vocation.
Recommended“and then I read for the first time the next two Zuckerman Unbound and now I'm about a third of the way through the anatomy lesson”
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The Girls
The Girls by Emma Cline is a critically acclaimed debut novel that explores the dark and mesmerizing allure of a 1960s cult through the eyes of a vulnerable, impressionable teenage girl.
Recommended“so let me just backtrack to the the plot um Eevee is sort of narrating from later in life she's middle-aged and sort of a drift she she's kind of lost herself and um she remembers a story of when she was a young teenager very impressionable”
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Salt to the Sea
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys is a historical young adult novel that interweaves the perspectives of four refugees fleeing the advancing Soviet army in East Prussia during the closing months of World War II, culminating in the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff.
Recommended“but what I read this past week was a ya novel by a writer named rud sepodes called salt of the sea Ruda sepes”
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Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is a historical young adult novel that follows a young Lithuanian girl deported to a Soviet labor camp in Siberia during World War II.
Recommended“the first one Between Shades of Gray I first read when I was the children's books editor here and it was the first novel I think that I came across as as an editor”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I guess it's too early to get tickets to the upcoming Broadway production of tequilla Mocking Bird which is opening I think later later this year from eron sorin”
“most people know if they know of her at all they know of a novel she wrote called Ship of Fools”
“and then um it turns into also a book very much about the death of his father which kind of previews his book patrimony which is a non-fiction book about the same subject”
“have you read American pastoral you know I haven't American pastoral is actually one of the things that I'm not too proud to admit”
“because then it's it really is like a good Counterpoint to Helter Skelter because in Helter Skelter you really don't understand those girls at all”
“well the book I'm actually reading I feel like I I'll be talking about for the next seven podcast so I'm not going to talk about it now other than to say that it's big and it's long and it's called the English and their history by Robert Toms so you'll hear about that in future episodes”
“and do you remember that it came out at the same time as 50 Shades of Gray and it got a huge sales boost because people would like go to Amazon or whatever and just be like oh you also like yeah it's the reversal”
“she did another one in between out of the easy which is kind of an outlier between those two books because that one takes place in a New Orleans Bordello I think and I haven't read that one”
“where for a long time you kind of had the Diary of an Frank and and not that much more”