Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-12-24

Books mentioned on What I’m Thinking at the End of 2024

2 books · With Claire Gordon · Watch on YouTube

Ezra Klein recommended Making a Way by Marilyn Robinson and Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   Making a Way

   Marilyn Robinson · at 28:46

   Gilead is a profound epistolary novel composed as the heartrending letter of an aging congregationalist minister to his young son, reflecting on faith, family history, and the quiet miracles of everyday existence.

   Recommended

   “uh there's a really beautiful quote in the book Gilead about this uh by Marilyn Robinson which is I think my favorite book and it it's all the book is this letter of an older man to his young son and he says you see how it is Godlike to love the being of someone Your Existence is a delight”

   Ezra Klein What I’m Thinking at the End of 2024 2024-12-24 Listen at 28:46

   Where to get it

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2. 

   Gilead

   Marilynne Robinson · at 28:46

   Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel, Gilead, is a profound meditation on faith, family history, and grace, told through the extended letter of an aging Congregationalist minister to his young son.

   Recommended

   “there's a really beautiful quote in the book Gilead about this uh by Marilyn Robinson which is I think my favorite book and it it's all the book is this letter of an older man to his young son and he says you see how it is Godlike to love the being of someone”

   Ezra Klein What I’m Thinking at the End of 2024 2024-12-24 Listen at 28:46

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible