Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-09-03
Books mentioned on On Children, Meaning, Media and Psychedelics
Ezra Klein discussed Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino and others. Jia Tolentino recommended In Ascension by Martin MacInnes and When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, and discussed How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell.
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Trick Mirror
Discussed“giia Tolentino is the author of The Great Book of essays trick mirror one of my favorite books about being alive in the age of the internet”
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How to Do Nothing
Discussed“like I remember also like I had read how to do nothing like right right around and I was like yeah this might be a shortcut to the the kind of outside the clock time you know where you are just not being useful to anyone but the people in front of this thing that I was trying so hard”
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In Ascension
Recommended“I really like this book in Ascension that our friend Max Reed recommended to me it's sort of if anyone is in the sort of Ted Chang Jeff vandermeir kind of thing it's like that kind of grounded beautiful enigmatic slightly schematic sci-fi really loved it”
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When We Cease to Understand the World
Recommended“another one that I've been texting a lot of people about the third one is when we see to understand the World by Benjamin labatut one that I feel like I've been texting friends about like every month since I read it it's about scientific discoveries that bring people to the brink of Madness and there's a really interesting thing”
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