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It’s the same with political books most books by politicians are bad because they don’t need to be good to be successful, and the same logic applies here.”Īlso on this week’s episode, Tina Jordan looks back at Book Review history during this year of its 125th anniversary Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world and Gregory Cowles and John Williams talk about what people are reading. “I gobble up comedy memoirs, even though the vast, vast majority of them are terrible.” One reason for that, Zinoman says, is that “you don’t need to make a great book to become a best seller. “The comedy memoir is the worst genre of book that I can’t get enough of,” Zinoman says. So I was really focused on writing toward the silence and toward the shadows, and writing about the experiences that maybe aren’t as palatable but that, from my perspective, needed to be unveiled.” “You’re told to find the silver lining, that everything happens for a reason, or - the one that I hated the most - that God doesn’t give you more than you can handle, because in my case it certainly felt like I had been given more than I could handle. “When you’re sick, you get bombarded with all kinds of bumper-sticker sayings,” she says. On this week’s podcast, she discusses her experience with the disease and her effort, in writing the book, to avoid the many platitudes that surround serious illness. In her new memoir, “Between Two Kingdoms,” Jaouad writes about the ensuing years. Then she received a diagnosis of leukemia. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to ListenĪt 22 years old, Suleika Jaouad was a recent college graduate who had moved to Paris, looking forward to everything life might offer.
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