Jonathan Blitzer

Products they talk about

• The Known World👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation at the end of the episode

  “My first would be a novel called The Known World by Edward P. Jones about Ante Billum, Virginia, one of the most astonishing novels I've ever read. One of my favorite American novels. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• The Spy and the Traitor👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation at the end of the episode

  “And my last recommendation would be The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre from several years back about a Soviet double agent who was working for the KGB but became a double agent for British intelligence during the Cold War. Absolutely astonishing true story that reads like fiction.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• What You Have Heard Is True👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation at the end of the episode

  “My second recommendation is a memoir by Carolyn Forche called What You Have Heard Is True. When she was 27, she was living in El Salvador at the start of what became the Salvadoran Civil War. And it's sort of a reflection on what that period was like for her. It's incredibly haunting and beautiful and very much relevant to the current conversation.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show