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Every book Jenny Schlenker recommended on podcasts
Jenny Schlenker appeared on The Book Review podcast in an episode titled Sheryl Sandberg on Life After Tragedy, broadcast in July 2024. During the segment, Jenny Schlenker contributed literary recommendations and discussions regarding notable works of non-fiction and criticism. Specifically, Jenny Schlenker recommended the book How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price, highlighting it as a great work written by a scholar at Harvard University. Furthermore, Jenny Schlenker discussed So Many Books, a work published in the early 2000s in translation by the Mexican literary critic Gabriel Zaid. Through these contributions on the podcast, Jenny Schlenker engaged with themes surrounding literary culture, reading habits, and scholarly perspectives on Victorian literature. Her mentions reflect a thoughtful engagement with books that examine the physical and cultural existence of literature itself, providing listeners of The Book Review with insightful points of reference regarding how people interact with the written word across different historical and international contexts.
Books recommended by Jenny Schlenker
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How to do things with books in Victorian Britain
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price is an insightful work of cultural history that examines how nineteenth-century readers interacted physically with books, moving beyond mere reading to explore books as objects, gifts, and tools.
Recommended“Leah Price another um scholar at Harvard wrote this great book called how to do things with Victorian books which just all about”
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So many books
Discussed“it was published I think in the early 2000s by in Translation it's by this Mexican literary critic named Gabriel Zed it was called so many books”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Sheryl Sandberg on Life After Tragedy | The Book Review | 2024-07-18 | 2 |
Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“it made me think about Walter benyamine wrote this famous essay called unpacking my library and I've been going around joking like I want to write an essay called de accommodating my library”
“I found weird things like this book called the humanure handbook which was this kind of hippie how-to book about composting human waste”
“and then there was this book which I was going to toss and then I'm like no I have to keep this called The Accidental diarist a history of the daily planner in America”
“there was also this great book I haven't read it so I can't say it's a great book greatl looking book by Anthony Grafton the Renaissance or the early modern historian at Princeton called the culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe”