Episode · How I Write · 2024-02-14
Books mentioned on The Mindset Behind An Unforgettable Novel (Amor Towles Interview)
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A good man is hard to find
Discussed“planning o Connor's uh first collection of short stories uh A Good Man is Hard to Find I I read um James Baldwin's first novel uh Go Tell It on the Mountain I read the man with a gray flannel suit and I read uh Raymond Chandler's uh long goodbye”
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin is a powerful debut novel that portrays a young boy coming of age within a strict religious family in Harlem.
Discussed“planning o Connor's uh first collection of short stories uh A Good Man is Hard to Find I I read um James Baldwin's first novel uh Go Tell It on the Mountain I read the man with a gray flannel suit and I read uh Raymond Chandler's uh long goodbye”
Where to get it
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The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler is a celebrated hardboiled detective novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe.
Discussed“planning o Connor's uh first collection of short stories uh A Good Man is Hard to Find I I read um James Baldwin's first novel uh Go Tell It on the Mountain I read the man with a gray flannel suit and I read uh Raymond Chandler's uh long goodbye”
Where to get it
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The man in the gray flannel suit
Discussed“planning o Connor's uh first collection of short stories uh A Good Man is Hard to Find I I read um James Baldwin's first novel uh Go Tell It on the Mountain I read the man with a gray flannel suit and I read uh Raymond Chandler's uh long goodbye”
Where to get it
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White Noise
White Noise by Don DeLillo is a celebrated postmodern masterpiece that examines consumer culture, academic life, and airborne toxic events through sharply stylized dialogue.
Discussed“you work your way towards White Noise and you're like oh that's a masterpiece”
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Underworld
Underworld is a sprawling, multi-layered masterpiece by Don DeLillo that examines the second half of the twentieth century in America through the lens of a single baseball and a trajectory of waste, nuclear threat, and cultural anxiety.
Discussed“and underworld even better you know”
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American Pastoral
American Pastoral is a critically acclaimed 1997 novel by Philip Roth that examines the disintegration of a successful American family during the turbulent social upheavals of the late twentieth century.
Discussed“suddenly late in life he's writing this series of of longer increasingly long and complex Works um you know like American pastoral and things like that”
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The Communist Manifesto
Discussed“the surrealist Manifesto of Breton or or the the the Communist Manifesto is amazing”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I have a collection of short stories which is coming out in April called table for two”