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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2016
During October 2016, literary discussions across various podcast episodes highlighted several notable works of fiction and non-fiction. On The Book Review, guest John Williams recommended Henry Green's novel Back, describing it as a heartbreaking and beautiful short book, and later discussed Theodore Weesner's 1972 coming-of-age novel The Car Thief after reading his obituary. Also on The Book Review, Greg Cowles brought up Joy Williams's Ninety-Nine Stories of God and previewed Sarah Manguso's forthcoming essay collection 300 Arguments. Charles Finch joined the same podcast to analyze the domestic thriller subgenre, mentioning Kate Moretti's The Vanishing Year alongside Martin Cruz Smith's well-known thriller Gorky Park. Meanwhile, on The Joe Rogan Experience, Jesse Ventura appeared as a guest to recommend Richard Marcinko's Rogue Warrior books and Harold Weisberg's Whitewash while discussing the Warren Commission report. These conversations traversed a diverse landscape of classic novels, contemporary poetry and essays, investigative true crime, and political history, reflecting the broad array of subjects capturing reader interest during the mid-autumn publishing season.
The Book Review
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The vanishing year
Discussed“well I think it's interesting you might say the vanishing year by Kate Moret”
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Gorky Park
Discussed“yeah exactly so I think he writes these great Thrillers set there the most famous being Gorky Park”
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The Girl from Venice
Discussed“this is a bit of a departure it's a standalone actually set during World War II um the girl from Venice”
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Livia Lone
Discussed“um Livia Alone by Barry e that one um yeah Livia alone is is a is an interesting book because it starts out sort of as a cartoon”
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The long room
Discussed“tell us about the long Brom by Franchesca K”
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The Notorious Mrs. Clem
Discussed“there's that for example the um notorious Mrs Clen”
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Who Killed These Girls?
Discussed“Who Killed These Girls? Cold Case the yogurt shop murders by Beverly Lowry is about a really gruesome crime that took place in 1991”
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The Thieves of Threadneedle Street
Discussed“let's talk about the thieves of thread needle Street the subtitle to that book is the incredible true story of the American forgers who nearly broke the bank of England by Nicholas Booth”
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The Trials of the King of Hampshire
Discussed“the trials of the king of Hampshire Madness secrecy and betrayal in Georg and England by Elizabeth foyer”
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Manhood in Early Modern England
Discussed“the trials of the king of Hampshire Madness secrecy and betrayal in Georg and England by Elizabeth foyer”
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A Very English Scandal
Discussed“and that third English book is called a very English Scandal Sex Lies on a murder plot at the heart of the establishment by John Preston”
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Truevine
Discussed“author Beth Macy will be here to talk about her new book truvine”
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Bridget Jones's baby
Discussed“that is the Bridget Jones series Molly young our Reviewer is here to talk about Helen fielding's latest novel Bridget Jones's baby”
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Charlie the Choo-Choo
Discussed“I believe it's his first picture book called Charlie the Chuchu”
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No fair! No fair!
Discussed“no fair no fair and other Jolly poems of childhood author Calvin trillin and illustrator Ros Chast are here to talk with our children's book editor Maria Russo about their new picture book”
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Discussed“first of all the the first Bridget Jones Diary came out in 1995”
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Back
Recommended“I read over the weekend actually a really beautiful and heartbreaking fairly short book um called back by Henry green”
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Hitler
Discussed“Adam kers is here now with us uh to talk about a book he reviews in this week's issue Hitler Ascent 1889 to 1939 by vulker UL”
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Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love
Discussed“I'm not only reading about sex as usual I'm reading about sex and Frey so it's a real twofer the first thing I've been reading this week is Emily wit's new book future sex”
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War and turpentine
Discussed“by a Belgian a Flemish writer named Stephan hertans it's a novel called war and turpentine”
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Symposium
Discussed“this is a book uh not a new book 1990 um uh from Muriel spark and I picked it up in London”
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Sing for your life
Discussed“author Daniel bergner is here to talk about his new book sing for your life a story of race music and family”
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Today will be different
Discussed“Maria is here to talk about her latest book today will be different”
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This One Is Mine
Discussed“so my first novel is called this one is mine and it took place in La”
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The car thief
Recommended“he thought he was worthy of mention was really this one book called the car thief a novel that was first published in 1972 And um it's a Coming of Age story”
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Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Recommended“I guess it's the Joy Williams Book 99 stories of God”
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300 arguments
Recommended“and this book is called 300 arguments it comes out in February”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Lord Dundreary and His Brother Sam
Discussed“Well, there's a book that Sam Kenisonson's brother wrote, Brother Sam, and ”
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Under and Alone
Discussed“There was a book written by William Queen, an ATF agent who infiltrated the Mongols. It's called Under and Alone. And he infiltrated them and put like 25 of them in prison. Well, in the book, they wrote that I was a former [ __ ] Governor Jesse Ventura, blah blah blah blah blah blah. Right? But you know what”
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Me & Lee
Discussed“in New Orleans and she's written a book called Lee and Me. Great book. Yeah. Where she talks, See, Lee was going to divorce his wife and her and Judith were going to get together. That's what she says.”
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Rogue Warrior
Recommended“I think cuz I'm probably the most famous maybe or I developed to be the most famous seal other than Dick Mareno, the Rogue Warrior. Great books. Read his books. Well, he's a friend of mine, Richard Marceno.”
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WHITEWASH -the report on the Warren Report
Recommended“And then the other interesting thing was Harold Weisberg wrote about it in his great books, Whitewash. Harold, it took him 10 years to get the minutes of the Warren Commission.”
The Rubin Report
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Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?
Discussed“uh by a Russian dissident named Andre Amala called will the Soviet Union exist until 1984 and he picked that date because of warwell of course right”
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2030
Discussed“you know it's interesting I read a book called 2030 by Albert Brooks it was his fiction novel about what he thinks America is going to be like in 2030 and one of the the issues that he thinks we're going to face the most is that our aging population is going to keep staying alive”
