Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on The Real Life of a Diplomat, Told Like a Novel
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb is a candid, illuminating memoir by a psychotherapist that explores both her patients' struggles and her own experiences inside the therapy room.
Discussed“her new book already a bestseller is called maybe you should talk to someone”
Where to get it
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The assassins' gate
Discussed“I mean the unwinding is a book about essentially America at a certain moment in time the Assassins gate about Iraq”
Where to get it
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The Unwinding
The Unwinding by George Packer is a sweeping work of non-fiction that chronicles the disintegration of American institutions and the lives of ordinary citizens over several decades leading up to the modern era.
Discussed“I mean the unwinding is a book about essentially America at a certain moment in time the Assassins gate about Iraq”
Where to get it
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Black Death at the Golden Gate
Black Death at the Golden Gate by David K.
Recommended“so I'm reading a book called Black Death At The Golden Gate the race to save America from the Bubonic plague by David K Randall”
Where to get it
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The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book by science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, co-authored with Marcel Blanc in certain editions, that examines how human activity is driving a mass extinction event on Earth.
Recommended“I am for some reason reason I decided this week at bedtime given given the unremitting news Etc to pick up Elizabeth Colbert's the sixth Extinction as my bedtime rating”
Where to get it
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel set in a totalitarian patriarchal society where women's rights have been stripped away.
Recommended“and that is Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's Tale which is having a real cultural moment right now with the TV show”
Where to get it
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So long, see you tomorrow
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell is a celebrated, poignant novella that explores a childhood memory, isolation, and a tragic murder in a small Midwestern town.
Recommended“I read the novel or it's maybe it's more of a Nolla by William Maxwell called so long see you tomorrow one of my absolute favorites”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he is the author of The unwinding which won the national book award and the Assassin's gate among other books”
“he is the author of The unwinding which won the national book award and the Assassin's gate among other books”
“I was describing it yesterday to John as a mashup of Eric Larson and Richard Preston you know who wrote the The Hot Zone the Ebola book”
“Pamela was shocked recently to learn that I had never read to Kill a Mocking Bird and I still have not read to moing bird”
“it opens with a quote from Genesis but then goes right into a Jonathan Swift quote after that and so she's kind of setting forward what she's doing here is is the A Modest Proposal”
“I first read William Maxwell they came like swallows after reading”