163: Rosecrans Baldwin (EVERYTHING NOW) and Orhan Pamuk's ISTANBUL

In This Episode:

Rosecrans Baldwin drops into the Damn Library's online zoom space to chat all about Los Angeles, the subject of his new book, Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles. We get into many of the things that make up Los Angeles, how it's different from Paris, and how the book's structure was inspired by Wittgenstein. He also brings along Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories and the City, and we all talk about melancholy before we talk about hot tubs and granola bars. Get right in, the water's fine.

The Ep. 163 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew — The Performance by Claire Thomas // In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
Christopher — The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki // Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
Rosecrans — First Responder by Jennifer Murphy

ALSO MENTIONED:

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Tractatus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offil
Here is New York by E. B. White
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, trans. by Joel Martinsen
Ambergris by Jeff VanderMeer
The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew — The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu, trans. by Ken Liu // Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Christopher — Skippy Dies (audiobook) // have someone re-read a favorite book to you // Nutty Nostalgic treats
Rosecrans — get a rec from your local indie bookstore! // Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg // hot-tubbing

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