Helen Lewis
speaker
1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
Helen Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I have Christy Mallory's Own Double Entry by B.S.
Johnson, an English writer of the 20th century.
It is about a young alienated guy who discovers double entry bookkeeping.
You know, the idea that for every debit, there's a credit.
And he decides that for every slight that's been done to him, he gets now to enact one on society.
So, you know, someone brushes past him and then he gets to do something bad.
And I think it really captures some of that sense of just an uncaring world and that kind of alienation.
So that's my first book recommendation.
My second recommendation is very exotic and I'm very sorry.
I can't think of a less Ezra Klein book, but I'm going to try and sell you on it anyway.
Nancy Mitford's biography of Madame de Pompadour, Mistress of Louis XV of France.
No, I'm not arguing, I'm listening.
How do you like French royal history?
I've never heard you down as someone who's massively into it, but try it.
Nancy Mitford, she was a brilliant historical biographer.
She wrote biographies of Frederick the Great, of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
But I think this one is extraordinary.
So Louis XV is the king before...
The Revolution, right?
That was Louis XVI.
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