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Pamela Paul’s book recommendations in 2024

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The History of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Sticky Fingers by Joe Hagan · discussed · at 0:34

Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The Fire Is upon Us by Nicholas Buccola · discussed · at 0:16
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones · discussed · at 0:25
The Problem with Everything by Meghan Daum · discussed · at 59:11

From the Archives: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter · discussed · at 52:30
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 52:30

Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

She Said by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey · discussed · at 1:00
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward · discussed · at 4:58
The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina · discussed · at 29:09
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, Juan Trejo · recommended · at 1:00:10

Robert Caro on How He Does It

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Hard news by Seth Mnookin · recommended · at 59:20

Robert Caro on How He Does It

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Working by Robert A. Caro · discussed · at 1:15
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro · discussed · at 15:46
Hard news by Seth Mnookin · discussed · at 1:08:42

The Year in Reading

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The end of your life book club by Will Schwalbe · discussed · at 1:12
Books for living by Will Schwalbe · discussed · at 4:24
SEND by David Shipley · discussed · at 12:07
Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow · discussed · at 34:59

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘America’s Bitter Pill’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

America's bitter pill by Steven Brill · discussed · at 1:03
Outline by Rachel Cusk · discussed · at 27:10
Aftermath by Rachel Cusk · discussed · at 32:17
A life's work by Rachel Cusk · discussed · at 32:17
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill · discussed · at 37:58

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘H Is for Hawk’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald · recommended · at 0:07
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby · discussed · at 0:30

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Ghettoside by Jill Leovy · discussed · at 1:09
Silver screen fiend by Patton Oswalt · discussed · at 13:19
Ben-Gurion by Anita Shapira · discussed · at 26:18

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Elliot Ackerman’s ‘Green on Blue’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman · discussed · at 0:58
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut · discussed · at 3:36
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller · discussed · at 3:36
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien · discussed · at 3:57
The Italians by John Hooper · discussed · at 20:53

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Dead Wake by Erik Larson · discussed · at 1:05
The cultural matrix by Orlando Patterson · discussed · at 24:18
Please Stop Helping Us by Jason L. Riley · discussed · at 24:31
Shame by Shelby Steele · discussed · at 24:31
Reflections of an affirmative action baby by Stephen L. Carter · discussed · at 29:07

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Leaving before the rains come by Alexandra Fuller · discussed · at 1:11
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller · discussed · at 1:29
The First Bad Man by Miranda July · discussed · at 21:35
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr · recommended · at 31:07

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Disappearing Religions

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell · recommended · at 0:08
Living the Secular Life by Phil Zuckerman · recommended · at 0:30
Habits of the heart by Robert Neelly Bellah · discussed · at 28:02

Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The unspeakable by Meghan Daum · discussed · at 25:01
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast · discussed · at 27:03
Wild by Cheryl Strayed · discussed · at 34:28
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert · discussed · at 34:28
My misspent youth by Meghan Daum · discussed · at 37:10
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr · discussed · at 43:18

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead · recommended · at 19:40
American heiress by Jeffrey Toobin · recommended · at 39:02
The examined life by Stephen Grosz · discussed · at 50:23

Other mentions in 2024 (32: passing, ad reads, own books)