Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on 'The Second Coming of the KKK'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The second coming of the KKK
The second coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon is a historical examination of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and its influence on the American political tradition.
Recommended“the second Coming of the KKK should be required reading”
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Endurance
Endurance by Scott Kelly is a gripping memoir written by the astronaut detailing his remarkable year spent living and working aboard the International Space Station.
Recommended“astronaut Scott Kelly will be here to discuss his Memoir endurance”
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff is Tom Wolfe's classic 1979 non-fiction chronicle of the U.S.
Recommended“and it was the right stuff by Tom Wolf and just the you know the way Tom writes that captured my attention”
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Autumn
Autumn by Ali Smith is a reflective contemporary novel that captures the shifting political and cultural landscape of Great Britain.
Recommended“in fiction Autumn by Ali Smith”
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Exit West
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid is a contemporary magical realist novel that explores migration, refugees, and global upheaval through the lens of a couple fleeing a war-torn country.
Discussed“and then it kind of brings us naturally to exit West by m ham yeah”
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Pachinko
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is a sweeping historical fiction novel that follows four generations of a Korean family living in Japan.
Discussed“and Pachinko by menen Lee which you also I also assigned and and edited the review for”
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The Power
The Power by Naomi Alderman is a speculative science fiction novel set in a world where teenage girls develop the physical ability to emit deadly electrical shocks, fundamentally upending global power dynamics and patriarchy.
Discussed“the power by Naomi Alderman is one you addited the review for that book”
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward is a powerful Mississippi-set novel that functions simultaneously as a raw road trip narrative and a haunting ghost story.
Discussed“why don't I start off by talking about Jasmine Wards sing unburied sing”
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The Evolution of Beauty
The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O.
Discussed“Gul you have to tell us a little bit about the evolution of beauty cuz you were you were”
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Grant
Grant by Ron Chernow is an extensive biographical work that chronicles the life, military campaigns, and presidential legacy of Ulysses S.
Recommended“Grant by Ron chernau”
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Locking up our own
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.
Discussed“it's very much um kind of a a fictional counterpart to locking up our own”
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Prairie fires
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser is a meticulous biography that explores the complex life of the beloved author behind the Little House series against the backdrop of the American frontier.
Discussed“Maria do you want to tell us about Prairie fires”
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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.
Recommended“and priest daddy by Patricia Lockwood”
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is an experimental historical novel that imagines the grief of Abraham Lincoln visiting his deceased son in a cemetery populated by a chorus of ghosts.
Recommended“well I I think it will surprise nobody who knows me that I would have loved to have seen George saunders's Lincoln and the BAU end up on on the fiction list”
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The dawn watch
The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasanoff is a biographical and historical examination of Joseph Conrad and his world.
Recommended“I really liked Amaya jasanoff's the dawn watch which also just came out pretty recently”
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Who is Rich?
Who Is Rich? by Matthew Klam is a darkly comic contemporary novel about a middle-aged cartoonist grappling with marriage, art, and desire.
Recommended“I thought Matthew clams who is Rich would have been a fantastic Darkhorse choice”
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Spy of the first person
Spy of the First Person by Sam Shepard is a poignant, slim posthumous novel that reflects on aging, illness, and memory through the perspective of an observant narrator sitting on a porch in the American Southwest.
Recommended“the title is of the first person by Sam Shepard all right”
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Improvement
Improvement is a contemporary novel by Joan Silber that weaves together the lives of disparate characters whose paths intersect in unexpected ways, exploring themes of connection, consequence, and redemption.
Recommended“this week I I am reading Janes Sil new novel Improvement”
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These possible lives
These Possible Lives is a literary work by Fleur Jaeggy that offers concise, striking prose portraits of various notable figures, exploring their distinct intellectual and personal paths.
Recommended“included on her list this book that had kind of escaped my notice when the book review covered it a few weeks ago called these possible lives by a a woman named Flur jaggie”
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The Orchard Keeper
The Orchard Keeper is Cormac McCarthy's debut novel, published in 1965, which explores bleak rural landscapes and complex human relationships in the American South.
Discussed“and then the other book I'm continuing sort of catching up with some of the early Cormac McCarthy books that I hadn't read before and I I know I mentioned the orchard keeper a couple weeks ago”
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Child of God
Child of God is a dark and disturbing novel by Cormac McCarthy set in the backwoods of Tennessee, following the harrowing descent of a violent and isolated outcast.
Critiqued“this week I read child of God which I have to say is I I really enjoyed is probably the wrong word”
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BRIEF HISTORY OF MISOGYNY: THE WORLD'S OLDEST PREJUDICE
Discussed“so I am reading this book called misogyny the world's oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland and I picked it up”
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Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre is a gripping historical non-fiction account detailing the ingenious British deception campaign that used a corpse and a fictitious identity to deceive Nazi Germany and secure an Allied victory during World War II.
Recommended“so that book again is Operation mince meat by Ben McIntyre and so far I recommend it”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“winner last year with Paul batty the sellout”
“I mean those are Grim obviously but this is just about this character in Tennessee a guy who sort of lives outside the bounds of society”
“um I think the next one is going to be outer dark which was this was his third book The Orchard keeper was his first”
“actually one of the books that I read earlier this year that I really like called the age of anger by punas Mishra”
“and I was trying to think you know like a book like the second sex I think in a way even though it's much larger MH it's in a way more readable”
“so he did agent zigzag and the man who would be king and the englishman's daughter and a spy among friends among other books”
“so he did agent zigzag and the man who would be king and the englishman's daughter and a spy among friends among other books”
“so he did agent zigzag and the man who would be king and the englishman's daughter and a spy among friends among other books”