Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-02-06
Books mentioned on What Relationships Would You Want, if You Believed They Were Possible?
Raina Cohen recommended Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon and Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese, and discussed Get Married by Brad Wilcox and How should a person be? by Sheila Heti.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Get Married
Get Married by Brad Wilcox is a sociological exploration arguing for the enduring personal and societal benefits of traditional family structures and marriage.
Discussed“and then on the flip side there were people you know more on the right or the center like Brad Wilcox who literally has a book called get married that's coming out and he really is trying to prevent divorce and so on”
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How should a person be?
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti is a contemporary novel that blends fiction and nonfiction to explore female friendship, art-making, and the search for an authentic life.
Discussed“yeah this is from Sheila H's novel how should a person be”
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Far From the Tree
Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree is a comprehensive non-fiction exploration of how parents and children who are significantly different from each other navigate their relationships.
Recommended“so my first book Is by Andrew Solomon it's called far from the tree and it made a huge impact on me”
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Thy Neighbor's Wife
Thy Neighbor's Wife is a non-fiction book by Gay Talese that explores the changing sexual landscape and cultural attitudes toward sex in the United States through immersive reporting on various communities and figures.
Recommended“my third book is thy neighbor's wife by gay Tois which is about 40 years old and it's a book that's looking at these twin impulses in American culture to be both sex obsessed and also very puritanical”
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