Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2026-09-06
Books mentioned on What It Means To Be A Good Man Today With Tom Junod
Tom Junod discussed Meditations by Aurelius Marcus and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Also mentioned: Blue Nights by Joan Didion.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a collection of personal journals and philosophical notes written by the Roman emperor, offering timeless reflections on Stoic philosophy, self-discipline, and mortality.
Discussed“I went and I read this past week I read the meditations.”
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Blue Nights
Blue Nights by Joan Didion is a poignant memoir that confronts aging, grief, and the profound loss of her daughter.
Discussed“I thought I thought Blue Nights was I like Blue Nights.”
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Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is a famously experimental and notoriously dense modernist novel that challenges traditional narrative structures with its idiosyncratic language and dreamlike logic.
Discussed“It begins it begins with Finnegan's Wake and then the Bible and it ends with so there's two copies of Finnegan's Wake.”
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