We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review’s podcast in general. “Shakespeare in a Divided America” by James Shapiro Here are the books discussed in this week’s “What We’re Reading”: And as I started discovering that, I started falling in love with the game.”Īlso on this week’s episode, Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world and Gregory Cowles and John Williams talk about what people are reading. Novem 45:54 Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein David Mitchell’s Vast and Tangled Universe Daniel Mendelsohn discusses Mitchell’s career and new novel, Utopia Avenue, and Maria. It taught me a lot about myself - about the kind of person I am, the kind of person I can be, and it gave me the skills to reach for that person. “But the more I learned about the game, the more I discovered how fascinating it was, and how good it was at teaching me the skills that I’d been wanting to learn forever: how to teach me better decision-making, how to teach me to be in better control of my emotions. “At the beginning I was losing a lot of money - finding everything very overwhelming - and at the lowest stakes, poker is not necessarily the most welcoming world for women, so I was experiencing a lot of negativity, a lot of sexism, it wasn’t particularly pleasant,” Konnikova says.
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