Episode · Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin · 2026-11-11
Alain de Botton on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin: every book mentioned
Alain de Botton is a philosopher, author, and founder of The School of Life, an organization focused on emotional intelligence, psychology, and personal growth.
Alain de Botton discussed In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Mythologies by Roland Barthes, and U and I by Nicholson Baker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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In Search of Lost Time
Discussed“The first 50 pages of this book are about a man going to sleep. It's amazing. Um going to sleep is normally something we we don't spend much time thinking about.”
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Mythologies
Discussed“There's a French writer called Holland Bach uh writable book called mythologies and other things. He was um a rulebreaker wrote essays but in ways that broke the genres.”
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U and I
Discussed“I remember a book by Nicholson Baker called You and I uh about his obsession with John Updike. Very very charming, very good book.”
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