Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Tyranny in Rome and Fake Drugs in Fiction
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mortal Republic
Discussed“all right to return to the book that we discussed earlier and you reviewed this week Edward J Watts's mortal Republic how Rome fell into tyranny”
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Under the Volcano
Discussed“I mean if you read Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano That Mescal that he's constantly drinking is in a way it's a Gateway into the stream of Consciousness super charged Dark Knight of the soul that the the main character undergoes through that book”
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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“what role does dilar is that how you pronounce it The Drug In White Noise”
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Your duck is my duck
Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg is a sharp and incisive collection of short stories that interrogates contemporary anxieties, political disillusionment, and shifting social landscapes.
Discussed“I want to go back to some of the specific drugs you mentioned the Deborah Eisenberg that collection is your duck is my duck and she has this drug verx in the title story of that collection”
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh is a provocative novel about a young, privileged Manhattan woman who decides to spend a year in a chemically induced slumber to escape the pressures of her life.
Discussed“and then you also talked about a Tessa mosag my year of rest and relaxation the drug in that is in forol”
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Hystopia
Discussed“oh boy troid in David mean's book hystopia which is really just an amazing dark dark sort of fantasmagorical trippy historical novel really hard to characterize but it does really marvelous things”
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Gun, with occasional music
Discussed“that's leading very naturally into a book that you wrote your first novel gun with occasional music in which the drug was forgett all you should know the pronunciation”
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New Hampshire
Discussed“vintage Classics which is their paperback imprint is going to be doing several AG the Christi novels this spring which are newly in the public domain and they're going to be doing an addition of Robert Frost New Hampshire with the original wood cart art”
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Billion Dollar Whale By Tom Wright, Bradley Hope & Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup By John Carreyrou 2 Books Collection Set
Billion Dollar Whale By Tom Wright, Bradley Hope and Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup By John Carreyrou comprises gripping investigative journalism accounts detailing massive corporate fraud and financial scandals.
Recommended“so what I'm reading is bad blood secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup by John KERO”
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“I'm I'm still on my extended ulses”
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Last stories
Last Stories is a poignant collection of short fiction by the acclaimed Irish author William Trevor, who passed away a few years prior to the discussion.
Recommended“last stories by William Trevor”
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The western wind
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey is an atmospheric historical novel set in a fifteenth-century English parish where a local priest investigates a suspicious drowning in his community.
Recommended“so that's Samantha Harvey's fourth novel recently published the western wind”
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is an epic, deeply researched work of narrative nonfiction that chronicles the historic decades-long Great Migration of Black citizens leaving the American South.
Recommended“is the warmth of other Sons”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“his latest novel is the fal detective but this week he writes about some other novels including one earlier novel of his own which look at fictional drugs in fiction”
“you know William Trevor is a very different kind of Irish writer from James joce”
“this story I I think James Wood reviewed her last book dear thief in the New Yorker”