Scott Simon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Just before Super Bowl, our Open Book reads pointed, funny words about sports from Orwell. George Orwell. 6:15 pm et 3:15 pm pt Live right here on @Twitter (we'll be done by kickoff)

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Our family Open Book from CA: great early essays from the great California writer Joan Didion. Join us! https://t.co/gZ5ErMG5AS

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Tonight, on our Open Book, we'll read from William Shirer's Berlin Diary on day Germany renounced a treat: https://t.co/bmdJx1rv3w

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"Pineapple Street"...is a comedy of manners set among people who live in storied limestone homes, have prenups, set out tablescapes, summer between the Clintons and the Obamas...have their family names on libraries, try to keep up and keep current and be something to someone.

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Ahead: Ron Shelton on his memoir on the making of Bull Durham, THE CHURCH OF BASEBALL. Then Dr. @lucykaplansky on her latest album, exploring going on in life. Such moving music!

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Our fam's Open Book reads Robert Frost poems about stars just before nightfall from his NEW HAMPSHIRE. https://t.co/YDLJjTw218

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Ahead: Dennis Lehane, the master Bahston crime novelist, on his new SMALL MERCIES. And then a story of a man living with cancer—and working—and really living, too.

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Or fam Open Book welcomes blockbuster author @donwinslow to talk about CITY OF DREAMS—and writing. https://t.co/WbliXG3sr2

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Ahead: two states with different approaches to sex education in schools. Then the great writer Mohsin Hamid on his new novel, THE LAST WHITE MAN, in which a whole society changes color suddenly…

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We'll read from Robert Creamer's masterful BABE (as Aaron Judge ties his record), including a classic story about a sick child. 6:15 pm et 3:15 pm pt Live right here!