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Books podcasts were talking about in July 2015
During July 2015, podcast episodes featured a wide-ranging selection of recommended summer reading, poetry, and narrative non-fiction. On The Book Review, host John Williams detailed several summer reading titles recommended by Dwight Garner, which included Joshua Cohen's novel Book of Numbers, Edna O'Brien's short story collection The Love Object, and Langdon Hammer's biography James Merrill: Life and Art, also referred to as Life Into Art. In the same podcast, Greg Cowles recommended several poetry collections, including Major Jackson's Roll Deep, Terrance Hayes's How to Be Drawn, and Christopher Gilbert's reissued and expanded collection Turning into Dwelling. Meanwhile, non-fiction and true crime drew attention on other platforms. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan discussed Michael Capuzzo's The Murder Room, highlighting the book while examining criminal profiling and interrogation techniques used by experts like Richard Walter. These discussions collectively highlighted a rich mixture of contemporary fiction, poetic reissues, biographical storytelling, and gripping true crime investigations that captured the attention of podcast hosts and guests alike throughout the middle of the summer season.
The Book Review
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Lila
Discussed“Marilyn Robinson for Lyla and Tyler for a spool of blue thread that came out this year”
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Nagasaki
Discussed“why don't we know as much about Nagasaki as we do about Hiroshima”
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Speaking in bones
Discussed“uh the new book is speaking in Bones it is the latest in the temperance Bren in series by Kathy reiches”
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Discussed“well I have to pick uh an outlier that some people haven't even read is the Cat in the Hat Comes Back”
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Dr. Seuss's ABC
Discussed“because I also think it's an outlier which is Dr Seuss's ABC sounds so boring and yet young Yolanda Jorgenson is yelling on his back”
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If I Ran the Circus
Discussed“mine is If I Ran the Circus”
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The 500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Discussed“Ramona Pon who tweets as Ramona right now wrote The 500 Hats of Bartholomew cubbins”
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Discussed“storyville dispatches wrote The Grinch”
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The Sneetches
Discussed“she writes the snitches even at five”
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The Lorax
Discussed“and Megan bamp says The Lorax”
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Hop on Pop
Discussed“I'll finish with another playful one Gail Pitman wrote Hop On Pop”
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The hand that feeds you
Discussed“she is a a novelist and a memoirist and is the co-author of a new book The Hand That Feeds You by AJ Rich”
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The Weather Experiment
Discussed“so I thought that was that was a good story of progress that I wanted to tell how did we get into the idea of predicting”
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Ally
Discussed“he's the editor of the national interest and this week he reviews on our cover Michael orin's new Memoir Ally my journey across the American Israeli divide”
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Among the Ten Thousand Things
Discussed“Julia P Pont is here now she has a new novel her first novel among the 10,000 Things reviewed this week in the book review by Helen Shulman”
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The English spy
Discussed“Daniel Silva continues his Gabriel Allen series that's said about the Israeli spy whose day job is as an art restorer the new book is called the English spy”
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The Little Paris Bookshop
Discussed“then down at number 16 there is the rare translated bestseller the little Paris Bookshop by uh an author named Nina George”
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The Oregon Trail
Discussed“the two new titles are the Oregon Trail by uh the journalist Rinker Buck at number 10”
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Book of numbers
Recommended“Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen the novelist”
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The love object
Recommended“the love object a collection of short stories by Edna O'Brien”
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James Merrill
Recommended“and the last two are James Merrill life and art a biography by Langdon hammer”
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Life Into Art
Recommended“and the last two are James Merrill life and art a biography by Langdon hammer”
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Skyfaring
Discussed“Mark Van huker will join us to talk about his new book Sky fairing a journey with a pilot”
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Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County
Discussed“Kristen green will be here to talk about her new book something must be done about Prince Edward County”
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Minions
Discussed“uh at number eight minions a novelization of a third in the Despicable Me enter exactly the novelization of the sequel of a sequel”
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Jurassic World
Discussed“uh then at number seven Jurassic world a junior novelization of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel”
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Inside Out
Discussed“then at number five not a sequel but again a junior novelization inside out”
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Wicked Lizzy and Diesel Trilogy wicked Appetite; Wicked Business; Wicked Charms
Discussed“at number seven Janet Ivanovich and fief Sutton continue you their Lizzy Tucker series with Wicked charms”
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The melody lingers on
Discussed“then at number six Mary Higgins Clark who's now 87 years old um and has been on the list for you know 50 years or more has a new book called The Melody lingers on a standalone Thriller”
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Truth or die
Discussed“then at number three James Patterson and Howard Ruffin have a new book called Truth or die”
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Life is short (no pun intended)
Discussed“uh at number 16 Jennifer for Arnold and Bill kleene who star in the TLC show The Little Couple they are little people have a memoir called life is short no pun intended”
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Pirate Hunters
Discussed“has another seafaring Adventure tale called pirate Hunters about the search for Joseph bannister's ship a 17th century pirate ship”
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Down the rabbit hole
Discussed“and then at number two um the former Playboy Playmate Holly Madison who also starred in the E reality show the girls next door has kind of a tell-all memoir called down the rabbit hole”
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Across the mutual landscape
Discussed“Christopher Gilbert who died in 2007 after only ever having published one book it was back in 1983 called across the mutual landscape um it was an influential book”
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Drunken Fireworks
Discussed“this holiday weekend Stephen King has released a new audiobook exclusive and it's sort of tied to the holiday weekend it's called drunken fireworks”
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Roll Deep
Recommended“the poet major jackon has a collection called roll deep that Norton is bringing out in August”
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How to be drawn
Recommended“uh then Terrence Hayes had a book come out I think it was in April from penguin called how to be drawn”
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Turning into dwelling
Recommended“well Greywolf is reissuing that book but also combining it with a complete second collection that was never published in his life um instead of being called across the mutual landscape this book is called turning into dwelling”
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Scattered at sea
Recommended“Amy gerler has a new book called scattered at Sea which penguin brought out in May”
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Delinquent palaces
Recommended“and then finally Danielle Chapman has a debut collection called delinquent palaces which Tri quarterly brought out in April”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Who's Looking Out for You?
Discussed“or you know like d wrote a book called who's looking out for you it was kind of an interesting book about”
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The Murder Room
Recommended“this book the murder room is so [ __ ] incredible this guy Richard Walter there are behaviors that people do like certain guys will rape and kill a woman”
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RoboCop
Discussed“my idea an of a what an officer should be was to be more RoboCop is like where I took my emotions out of the job and handled it strictly as enforcing the law”
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The Dukes of Hazzard
Discussed“oh I said about Daisy Duke I said the real flag was the the Daisy Dukes the shorts cuz that was a flag of empowerment there never been”
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Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America
Discussed“it was called the transformation of america and she said it was at bohemian grove”
