Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2025-05-01
Books mentioned on The Office's Ed Helms On His Secret Passion (History, Acting, Storytelling & MORE)
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F.
Discussed“It's like it's very Great Gatsby.”
Where to get it
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
F.
Discussed“It's like it's very Great Gatsby. It's like it has nothing to do with the book itself.”
Where to get it
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Meatball Sundae
Discussed“Well, there's a book over there that I see like sometimes I I c they catch my eye there, but Seth Goden wrote this book called Meatball Sunday”
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The Library Book
The Library Book by Susan Orlean is a compelling non-fiction narrative investigating the devastating 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Public Library and the broader history of libraries as community anchors.
Recommended“Have you read Library Book? No.”
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Night of the Grizzlies
Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen is a non-fiction book detailing the tragic grizzly bear attacks in Glacier National Park and the various human failures that contributed to the disaster.
Recommended“Uh, and then just like how they were not prepared for the fire at all, then how bad the science on tracking down the arsonist. I thought this one was really good. Uh, Night of the Grizzlies.”
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La Nuit du Titanic
La Nuit du Titanic, widely known in English as A Night to Remember by Walter Lord, is a definitive, meticulously researched historical non-fiction account of the final hours of the RMS Titanic.
Discussed“Uh, Titanic, obviously, one of the great snafoos of human history. This is like the book that invents the genre of narrative non-fiction.”
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.
Recommended“And then this one, I don't know if you read Empire of the Summer Moon, which is an incredible book, SCU, one of Texas's great writers”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Marcel the Shell
“and Marcel the Shell, of course, which we're huge fans of in our house.”
Passing The Orchid Thief
“If you've ever seen adaptation, that's based on her book, The Orchet Thief.”