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What We're Reading

2025/3/11
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Chris Berube
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Joe Rosenberg
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Lasha Dawn
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Roman Mars
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Vivian Leigh
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Lasha Dawn: 我喜欢在完成工作初稿后，通过腌制食物来缓解焦虑，而《Usha's Pickle Digest》这本书，其作者Usha的经历和故事，以及书中丰富的腌菜食谱，都让我感到非常着迷。这本书的独特之处在于它的创作背景和故事性，它不仅仅是一本食谱，更像是一个充满人情味的故事。 Chris Berube: 我推荐《What It Takes》，这本书以1988年美国总统大选为背景，通过对各个候选人的深入描写，展现了权力斗争的复杂性和人性中的缺陷。这本书让我对美国政治历史有了更深入的了解，也让我对当代政治有了新的思考。特别是书中对共和党内部对里根总统评价的描述，让我印象深刻，也引发了我对历史叙事和政治解读的思考。 Vivian Leigh: 我最近读了四本书：《Orbital》是一部关于宇航员在国际空间站生活的作品，它以诗意的语言和独特的视角，展现了宇宙的浩瀚和人类的渺小，带给我心灵上的平静与思考；《Martyr!》是一部关于一位伊朗裔美国作家的故事，它以轻松幽默的笔触，探讨了人生的意义和价值；《Amusing Ourselves to Death》则批判了电视和电子媒体对政治和社会的影响，让我对信息时代的信息传播和社会思潮有了新的认识；《How to End a Love Story》则是一部关于创伤和家庭关系的小说，它以细腻的笔触，展现了人物内心的挣扎和情感的纠葛。 Jayson DeLeon: 我推荐三本书：《Hoppity Frog》是一本适合幼儿阅读的绘本，它简单易懂的故事和可爱的插图，深受我女儿的喜爱；《Scattered Snows, to the North》是卡尔·菲利普斯最新的诗集，诗歌风格独特，语言精炼，富有哲理，带给我心灵上的震撼；《Blackouts》是一部小说，它以独特的视角和精湛的文笔，展现了人物内心的挣扎和情感的纠葛，让我印象深刻。 Joe Rosenberg: 我推荐《Plunkett of Tammany Hall》，这本书讲述了坦慕尼协会政治家乔治·华盛顿·普朗基特的生平和政治观点，展现了当时政治腐败的现状及其运作方式。这本书让我对美国政治历史有了更深入的了解，也让我对政治腐败有了新的思考。 Roman Mars: 我最近读了《The Pine Barrens》，这本书以诗意的笔触，讲述了新泽西州一片荒凉土地的故事，展现了作者约翰·麦克菲独特的创作风格。这本书让我对美国文化和自然有了更深入的了解，也让我对写作和叙事有了新的思考。

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Lasha Dawn shares her unusual ritual of pickling during the editing process of her podcast stories and introduces Usha's Pickle Digest, a unique and charming pickling recipe book with a cult following. It's a self-published encyclopedia with over a thousand recipes, highlighting the unexpected story behind its creation and distribution.
  • Lasha Dawn's pickling ritual as a stress reliever during script editing
  • Usha's Pickle Digest: a self-published pickling encyclopedia with over 1000 recipes
  • Usha, the 'pickle queen of India', initially gave away 1000 copies of her book for free
  • The book's unique history and cult following

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After we finished up *The Power Broker, *a bunch of people were asking us what other books we’d been reading. A group of us got together and presented some of our recent favorites, and the choices were so good and surprising and charming, we're now sharing it widely.

Here are the books covered in this episode:

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