Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-07-14
Ezra Klein & Tom Hanks: books mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show
What Tom Hanks Thinks of America
Ezra Klein discussed Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks and the Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks recommended Beartown by Fredrik Backman, The swerve by Stephen Greenblatt, and Trust by Hernan Diaz, and discussed Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Uncommon Type
Discussed“so I wanted to start in your earlier book of short stories uncommon type and in that book you have a typewriter appearing in every single story”
Where to get it
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the Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Discussed“so the new book is called the making of another major Motion Picture Masterpiece and it is about a movie called The the Masterpiece in question Nightshade the LA the Firefall”
Where to get it
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Beartown
Recommended“three books would be Bear Town by Frederick Bachmann it's the first in a Trilogy about a hockey Youth Hockey Club in a small town in Sweden”
Where to get it
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The swerve
Recommended“uh the swerve by Stephen Greenblatt how the modern world began”
Where to get it
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Trust
Recommended“and Trust by Hernandez which is a fabulous book the structure of which is just gorgeous and tells an awful lot about what I'd like to think of as non-fiction entertainment by way of a novel”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“but he does have a new Bookout the making of another major Motion Picture Masterpiece which follows up his short Story collection uncommon type”
Passing Uncommon Type
“the making of another major Motion Picture Masterpiece which follows up his short Story collection uncommon type both of which are real Delight”