Champs at the Lit Mark Thomas

This is a rerun of our episode about the book American Prometheus, a biography of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. It originally aired on October 27, 2022.
We're rerunning it in honor of the movie Oppenheimer, which Christopher Nolan wrote based on this book. This episode contains spoilers.
Related stuff:
The Golden Notebook by Doris LessingThe Missed Chance to Stop the H-Bomb by McGeorge Bundy in the New York Review of BooksHiroshima: Why America Dropped the Bomb by Ronald Takaki
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This episode is about Heaven, a novel by Japanese author Mieko Kawakami
References:
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
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This episode is about The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel by the Pakistani-British author Mohsin Hamid.
References:
Exit West, by Mohsin HamidMoth Smoke, by Mohsin HamidThe Reluctant Fundamentalist, a box office bomb starring Riz AhmedOpinion piece on Pakistani-Indian relations by Mohsin Hamid: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/opinion/pakistani-militants-the-enemies-of-peace-the-internal-enemies-of-pakistani-peace.htmlMohsin Hamid profile: https://www.fastcompany.com/3045216/why-companies-need-novelistsInterviews with Mohsin Hamid: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7l and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0144ybjCritique of Hamid's work by Zain R Mian: https://herald.dawn.com/news/1398781The Alchemist, by Paulo CoelhoThe Fall, by Albert Camus
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This episode is about the book American Prometheus, a biography of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. It won the Pulitzer Prize and is being made into a feature film by Christopher Nolan.
Related stuff:
The Golden Notebook by Doris LessingThe Missed Chance to Stop the H-Bomb by McGeorge Bundy in the New York Review of BooksHiroshima: Why America Dropped the Bomb by Ronald Takaki
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In this episode, we're talking about The Buried Giant by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. This episodes contains spoilers.
References:
Ishiguro's WSJ interview: https://www.wsj.com/video/kazuo-ishiguro-uncovers-the-buried-giant/542AED13-6ABD-42D9-A8F3-86806087F241.htmlNeil Gaiman's review: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/books/review/kazuo-ishiguros-the-buried-giant.htmlPostwar by Tony JudtSir Gawain and the Green KnightLe Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas MaloryThe English and their History by Robert TombsThe Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings by Tim Clarkson
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In this episode, we're talking about The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin. Please join us. Or don't. It's your choice.
Further reading:
"The Moral Equivalent of War" by William JamesA Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy GreenbergThe War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan ThomasFordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg GrandinThe Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1845 by Daniel Walker Howe
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