Episode · How I Write · 2026-07-20
Books mentioned on What the Experts Really Think About Writing with AI
Tyler Cowen discussed Richard II by William Shakespeare and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. David Perell discussed Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Richard II
Richard II by William Shakespeare is a historical play depicting the downfall and deposition of the English monarch.
Discussed“So I reread Shakespeare's Richard II which is a [clears throat] wonderful play.”
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a classic Gothic novel examining the destructive, all-consuming passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw across the bleak Yorkshire moors.
Discussed“I'm also rereading Weathering Heights.”
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Twilight
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is a globally popular young adult fantasy romance novel that follows the intense and complicated relationship between a human high school girl and a century-old vampire.
Discussed“On the other hand, you have these like sort of massly massively mass market successful I don't even know what like I'll pick on like the Twilight books or something quite interesting story horrible writing.”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Political Liberalism
“I wanted the port in the back of my mind that the little needle would go into and then I had read John RS's political liberalism, right?”
Passing Finnegans Wake
“I had this like idea like I was going to do it chronologically like the books were going to be in there chronologically and so it begins with the Bible and ends with Finnegan's Wake, you know.”
Passing The Epic of Gilgamesh
“Or maybe even pre there maybe maybe even pre-Bible, you know, there's some like some stoic an epic of Gilgamesh.”