Summer Reading, with City Journal (2019)
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
City Journal editor Brian Anderson joins Vanessa Mendoza, executive vice president of the Manhattan Institute, for our second annual discussion of Brian's summer and vacation reading list.
Summer is upon us, and the City Journal editors are ready for some vacation. We asked Brian to tell us what books he's taking with him to the beach this year and why.
Check out Brian's summer reading list, in the order discussed:
- The Conservative Sensibility, by George Will
- Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age, Remi Brague
- Infinite Baseball, by Alve Noë
- The Awfully Big Adventure of Michael Jackson in the Afterlife, by Paul Morley
- Orange World and Other Stories, by Karen Russell
- Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, Nassim Nicolas Taleb
- The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, Alan Brinkley
Also discussed in the episode:
- Swaplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell
- Seeing Things Politically: Interviews with Benedicte Delorme-Montini, by Pierre Manent
- Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami
- MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom, by Tony Robbins
- Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, by Wilfred M. McClay
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another edition of the Ten Blocks podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | This is Vanessa Mendoza. |
| 0:05.1 | I am the executive vice president at the Manhattan Institute and a proud City Journal |
| 0:09.6 | Publications Committee member. |
| 0:11.7 | Today, we are turning the tables on your regular host, Brian Anderson, for what is now |
| 0:16.6 | officially an annual podcast tradition, Brian's summer reading list. If you missed last year's |
| 0:23.4 | episode, here's the background. I've worked with Brian for many years now, and he has been |
| 0:28.4 | since the very beginning my first stop for book recommendations, and not just for the summer, |
| 0:33.7 | but all year long. But every summer, Brian curates a particularly good list for his |
| 0:39.4 | August vacation, and since I am not the only one in the office who waits for this list, |
| 0:44.5 | we thought we'd share it with you, our audience. So summer's here and Brian's getting ready to |
| 0:49.5 | leave us in a couple of weeks, and that means I get to bother him about what books he'll be |
| 0:54.1 | reading on the beach. |
| 0:55.5 | One announcement before we get started, City Journal readers will be delighted to know that the |
| 1:00.9 | summer 2019 issue of the magazine is hot off the press, and in fact, it is in my hands in our |
| 1:06.7 | studio right now. They should start arriving in mailboxes later this week. If you are not a |
| 1:13.0 | subscriber, you should be. Of course, you can read the pieces online, but there is nothing like |
| 1:16.9 | holding the magazine in your hands. It is absolutely beautiful, so please look for it either in |
| 1:21.5 | your neighborhood bookstore or make sure to subscribe online. Okay, that's it for the introduction. |
| 1:27.1 | We'll take a quick break, |
| 1:28.0 | and we'll be back with Brian Anderson after the music. Okay, we are back. I am Vanessa Mendoza, the Executive Vice President at the Manhattan |
| 1:49.3 | Institute and CJ Publications Committee member. And joining me in the studio is the editor of |
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