Episode 54: Rich Cohen's 'Lake Effect' resonated with me. Cohen captures the essence of youth, and how high school and college played out for a certain type of kid in the 1980s. It moved me the same way that John Knowles' A Separate Peace did.
Books mentioned:
Lake Effect, by Rich Cohen, published by Knopf in 2002
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, published in 1958
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, published in 1967
That Was Then, This Is Now, by S.E. Hinton, published in 1971
Rumble Fish, by S.E. Hinton, published in 1975
Tex, by S.E. Hinton, published in 1979
The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World’s Greatest Negotiator, by Rich Cohen, published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
When the Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season, by Rich Cohen, published in 2023 by Random House
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