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Books podcasts were talking about in August 2015
In August 2015, various literary discussions and recommendations took center stage across multiple podcast episodes. On The Book Review, host Gilbert Cruz welcomed several guests to discuss prominent new releases, including Ari Berman speaking about his modern political work Give Us the Ballot, Simon Winchester discussing Susan Barker's imaginative novel The Incarnations, and Steve Silberman talking about his autism exploration Neurotribes. Later in the same podcast series, Maria Russo recommended Kevin Henkes's picture book Waiting along with Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel Secret Coders, while Parul Sehgal highlighted Felicia Day's memoir You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) upon its bestseller list debut. Other podcasts explored specialized non-fiction narratives. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan brought up L. Jon Wertheim's Blood in the Cage to examine the early history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Dana White's initial involvement. Additionally, Steven Hassan appeared on the same show to mention Tony Ortega's book The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, which centers on Paulette Cooper. Together, these conversations spanned graphic novels, political histories, memoirs, and biographical accounts of institutional and cultural movements.
The Book Review
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Give Us the Ballot
Discussed“Ari Burman will join us to talk about give us the ballot the modern struggle for voting rights in America”
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The incarnations
Discussed“Simon Winchester will tell us about Susan Barker's novel the incarnations this is a work of stunning imagination”
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Neurotribes
Discussed“Steve Silberman will be here to talk about his book neurotribes The Legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity”
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The empty fortress
Discussed“of course there was a guy named Bruno bleheim who was like first America's first celebrity psychiatrist and he wrote a bestseller in the 60s called The Empty Fortress”
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Ancillary Justice
Discussed“and one of the most successful authors to emerge in recent years is Ann Ley um her book ancillary Justice dominated the awards last year won hugos and nebulas and other Awards”
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The Day the Crayons Came Home
Discussed“well we have we have a sequel uh The Day the Crayons came home”
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Silver linings
Discussed“we have Debbie mccomb's latest Silver Linings which is her latest entry in her Rose Harbor in series debuting at number three”
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State of Fear
Discussed“at number 10 there's curious L enough um state of fear by another Mainstay Michael kryon but this book was published in 2004 it feels oddly precient now”
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Devil's bridge
Discussed“also new on the list is Devil's Bridge by Linda ferin the prosecutor turned mystery writer and it's her 17th book in the series featuring Alexander Cooper”
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Waiting
Recommended“there's um Waiting by Kevin hanky one my favorites”
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Secret Coders
Recommended“one last comic book since we love that genre so much um or graphic novel but for readers a little bit older this one is uh it's called secret coders also the beginning of a series uh by the brilliant um Gan Len yangang”
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You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)
Recommended“her name is Felicia Day and her Memoir you're never weird on the internet almost debuse at number five”
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Dragonfish
Discussed“Vu Tran will join us to talk about his debut novel dragon fish”
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Let Me Tell You
Discussed“one recent example is let me tell you a collection of 56 short stories and other pieces by Shirley Jackson who died in 1965 and is probably best known for the lottery”
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Magic shifts
Discussed“the new fiction titles are magic shifts by Alona Andrews fans know there is no Alona Andrews there's and Drew Gordon and Alona Gordon a husband and wife team who write urban fantasy together and this is the eth book in their Kate Daniels series”
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Deadly assets
Discussed“uh then at number 13 deadly assets by web Griffin and his son William E Butterworth ivth this book is the 12th in their badge of honor series about the Philadelphia PD”
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The Marriage of Opposites
Discussed“then new at number 11 Alice Hoffman the Boston area magical realist has a novel called The Marriage of opposites it it does incorporate some magical realism some folklore uh mostly it's a historical novel set on St Thomas um that looks at the impressionist painter Camille pisaro in his youth um and his mother then”
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Hear the Wind Sing
Discussed“then at number eight an unacknowledged forbear of the urban fantasy genre maybe Haruki murakami whose pros of who mixes hardboiled Pros with uh these other worldly events uh is on the list with a book that's really two books um his first two novels published in Japan in the 70s and never before released uh in the United States”
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Pinball, 1973
Discussed“then at number eight an unacknowledged forbear of the urban fantasy genre maybe Haruki murakami whose pros of who mixes hardboiled Pros with uh these other worldly events uh is on the list with a book that's really two books um his first two novels published in Japan in the 70s and never before released uh in the United States”
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Wind/Pinball
Discussed“then at number eight an unacknowledged forbear of the urban fantasy genre maybe Haruki murakami whose pros of who mixes hardboiled Pros with uh these other worldly events uh is on the list with a book that's really two books um his first two novels published in Japan in the 70s and never before released uh in the United States”
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Alert
Discussed“and then finally the last new title on the list this week is by James Patterson and Michael ledwidge they are the team who brought us a zoo uh but before that uh Michael ledwidge was James Patterson's co-writer on the Michael Bennett series about the NYPD uh they are back with the eighth book in that series it's called”
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Voices in the ocean
Discussed“um down at number 13 the science writer Susan Casey has a book called voices in the ocean uh which looks at Dolphin intelligence dolphin Consciousness and kind of the history of dolphin research”
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My Fight / Your Fight
Discussed“at number five the mixed martial artist Rondo Rousey uh has written a biography called my fight your fight that book actually was published in May and it's um made big inroads on our monthly sports list”
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Plunder and deceit
Discussed“The Talk Radio host Mark R Len has a Hot Blooded libertarian Manifesto plunder and deceit”
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Katrina
Discussed“Gary rivlin will tell us about his new book Katrina After the flood”
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Blue
Discussed“Joe Dominic will be here to talk about his new book blue the LAPD and the battle to redeem American policing”
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The Reason I Jump One Boys Voice From The Silence Of Autism
Discussed“mean a couple of examples of ones that have really taken off as a result of his support are um the Memoir the reason I jump which is by a Japanese boy with autism”
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Pound Foolish
Discussed“one that got one is pound foolish exposing the dark side of the personal finance industry”
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To protect and to serve
Discussed“and from there I got a a book contract for my first book about the LAPD protectant to serve”
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The Bourbon Kings
Discussed“there are three new titles on the hard cover fiction list this week starting down at number 14 with a book called The Bourbon Kings by Jr Ward”
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Circling the Sun
Discussed“it's called circling the sun and it is about The Aviator barl Markham who flew solo across the Atlantic in 1936”
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Blackout
Discussed“at number 16 uh it's a memoir by Sarah HEPA called blackout”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Discussed“In fact I think the bells you had on last week as part of Bigger Faster Stronger did a little piece on what the dietary supplement industry is and I think he hired couple people off the street to make supplements and showed you could put them right to the shelf.”
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Blood in the Cage
Recommended“There's a great book uh Blood in the Cage that outlines all that stuff. And it outlines like how uh Dana got into it and they went to an event and he was like, "This just sucks.”
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The Unbreakable Miss Lovely
Recommended“He wrote a book called The Unbreakable Miss Lovely about Pette Cooper who was a friend of mine when I left the Mooneyies in 1976.”
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Spark
Discussed“I just finished reading a great book called spark which is about Lincoln which is one of the early still one of the predominant welding manufacturers in America”
