Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-07-14
Books mentioned on What Tom Hanks Thinks of America
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”
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the Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks is a sweeping contemporary novel that offers a fictionalized, behind-the-scenes look into the chaotic production of a multi-million-dollar Hollywood blockbuster.
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”
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Travels with Charley
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck is a celebrated travelogue chronicling the author's cross-country road trip across America in a pickup truck accompanied by his standard poodle, Charley, in search of the country's national identity.
Discussed“I've read John Steinbeck's Travels With Charlie”
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Beartown
Beartown by Fredrik Backman is a poignant contemporary novel about a small Swedish community bound together by its passion for youth ice hockey.
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”
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The swerve
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt is a work of history and philosophy detailing the rediscovery in 1417 of Lucretius's long-lost classical Latin poem On the Nature of Things and how it helped spark the modern world.
Recommended“uh the swerve by Stephen Greenblatt how the modern world began”
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Trust
Trust by Hernan Diaz is a structurally ambitious and celebrated novel that delves into themes of wealth, power, and multiple perspectives in historical America.
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”
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”
“the making of another major Motion Picture Masterpiece which follows up his short Story collection uncommon type both of which are real Delight”