Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: No Stupid Questions

Episode: In a Job Interview, How Much Does Timing Matter? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 70

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

Angela's Ashes Cover

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

Buy on Amazon
"I can think of one book that I loved and saw the film, and I didn't hate it, and that was Angela's Ashes, which I thought was a pretty good film. I did not know that was a film."
The Bonfire of the Vanities Cover

The Bonfire of the Vanities

by Tom Wolfe

Buy on Amazon
"But then I think of another book that I loved, Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. I love that book too, a great novel. Then the movie came out, and I can't remember that movie!"
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information PAPERBACK Cover

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information PAPERBACK

by Edward R. Tufte

Buy on Amazon
"Stephen was perhaps thinking of 'chart junk', a term that Tufte coined in his 1983 book, 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information'. Tufte writes, 'The interior decoration of graphics generates a lot of ink that does not tell the viewer anything new.'"