Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2022-12-22
Ryan Holiday & Kathryn Schulz: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic
Kathryn Schulz on Gaslighting, Misinformation, and Coping with Grief
Kathryn Schulz discussed The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Ryan Holiday discussed The Premonition by Michael Lewis and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Jungle
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a 1906 novel that serves as a harsh expose of working conditions in Chicago's meatpacking industry during the Gilded Age.
Discussed“I wrote about this in my first book which is what I'd read your book for um and and and actually as it happens Upton Sinclair wrote this expose of journalism in the 1900s right like right after he wrote The Jungle.”
Where to get it
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The Premonition
The Premonition by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction account examining public health and government response during crises.
Discussed“Like I was reading I was reading Michael Lewis's uh book on the pandemic, which was really good uh the Premonition.”
Where to get it
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The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, post-apocalyptic novel that follows a father and his young son as they walk across a burned America, striving to survive while holding onto their morality.
Discussed“Have you read uh have you read Cormac McCarthy's The Road?”
Where to get it
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Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a harrowing and visceral historical novel that depicts the extreme violence and bleak reality of the American West through the harrowing journey of a runaway teenager known as the kid.
Discussed“But no, I most recently read Blood Meridian and then I'm only like two and a half years into my 10-year stint, which I'm slightly exaggerating about, but somehow I'm the last person in America not to have read The Road even though I understand exactly why I should.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“The book is called Lost and Found and the whole first part uh Lost uh is very explicitly about grief and and to be honest it then kind of runs continuously as a as a theme through the rest of it in various ways”
“I um it's incredible uh what we discover uh sometimes without even knowing it was missing from our lives.”
“There's a reason I titled my new book 'Lost and Found' —sometimes we discover what was missing from our lives.”