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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2015
During September 2015, podcasts engaged with a diverse array of literary works across various shows. On The Book Review, guest John Williams shared multiple listener and reader recommendations centered on themes of female friendship, highlighting Lisa See's novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Marge Piercy's Braided Lives, Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, and Jill Ker Conway's The Road from Coorain. Also on The Book Review, Alexandra Alter discussed Jennifer Senior's All Joy and No Fun while reflecting on modern parenting and her new role as a daily book critic. Moving into political and economic discussions, The Rubin Report featured Jimmy Dore mentioning Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent while conversing about media consolidation and corporate bias. On Conversations with Tyler, Tyler Cowen recommended Luigi Zingales's A Capitalism for the People as a premier text on the American economy and its structural flaws. Finally, on The Joe Rogan Experience, Christopher Ryan recommended Ronald Wright's A Short History of Progress to illustrate recurring patterns of civilizational rise and decline, rounding out a month where literature served as a lens for examining human relationships, economics, and history.
The Book Review
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Black Silent Majority
Discussed“khil Jabron Muhammad will join us to talk about his review of Michael fortner's Black silent majority the Rockefeller drug laws and the politics of punishment”
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Killing the Messenger
Discussed“she reviews a new book by David Brock killing the messenger the rightwing plot to derail Hillary and hijack your government”
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Blinded by the Right
Discussed“like how does that actually work but he he wrote a book before I mean he did he did write a memoir blinded by the right”
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One Year After
Discussed“the First new Tittle is down at number 14 William R Fortune has a new book called one year after it's kind of a survivalist dystopia”
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Driving heat
Discussed“at number 13 Richard Castle has a book Seven of his Nikki Heat series that's called driving Heat”
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The scam
Discussed“new at number 10 Janet anovich is back on the list with the scam that's um part of a series that she's writing with Lee Goldberg”
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Fates and Furies
Discussed“new at number seven our Covergirl Lauren gra uh is on the list with her new novel Fates and Furies”
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Devoted in Death
Discussed“and finally up at number three JD Rob who her regular readers will know is really Nora Roberts uh is back on the list with devoted in death”
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Never Broken
Discussed“jewel is on the list with her Memoir never broken”
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Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics
Discussed“then at number 15 Step Brier uh also a book that we talked about um a couple of weeks ago”
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The Court and the World
Discussed“then at number 15 Step Brier uh also a book that we talked about um a couple of weeks ago”
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Fast Girl
Discussed“then at number four a book called Fast Girl by the three-time Olympian U the runner Susie Favor Hamilton uh written with Sarah Tomlinson”
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The art of memoir
Discussed“then at number three Mary Carr the uh best-selling memoirist has a book about Memoir it's called The Art of memoir”
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Why not me?
Discussed“so it's only fitting that at number one we have a memoir really a a collection of personal essays um the second collection of personal essays by the actress Mindy Kaling uh it's a book called Why Not Me”
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Recommended“two people Lynn M Kia and rosemary Barry Britain both named sunflower and the secret fan by Lisa C which is a novel about um two Chinese women in 19th century uh a remote County in 19 century China”
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Braided lives
Recommended“um Rosie van strop said braided lives by Marge piery is the best book about friendship she's read”
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The Robber Bride
Recommended“libby kmore said without a doubt the robber bride by Margaret Atwood”
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The road from Coorain
Recommended“the one that came to mind was Lori mois who will run the frog Hospital which I read a long time ago”
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Active Liberty
Discussed“that was an interesting thing to see and to see the interaction between the battles that he's been in in his previous books over active Liberty is what the title of his most recent before this one battles between that and originalism”
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the star side of bird hill
Discussed“let's start um to talk specifically about the star side of bird hill by Naomi Jackson”
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Animals
Discussed“let's talk about a very different book as you said not quite a Coming of Age novel um in the traditional sense but Emma Jane unsworth Book animal”
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James Joyce
Discussed“I'm also rereading uh Richard elman's biography of James Joyce”
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Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights
Discussed“then at number nine Solon rushy uh is on the hard cover fiction list with 2 years 8 months and 28 nights which is uh for the mathematically inclined it it amounts to 1,1 Knights”
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Black Earth
Discussed“um down at number 13 Timothy Snider's Black Earth his look at the Holocaust uh is new number 13”
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Reckless
Discussed“at number seven I'm new on the list this week Chrissy hind the longtime lead singer and frontwoman of the pretenders has a memoir called Reckless”
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All Joy and No Fun
Recommended“she is the author of a book all joy and no fun which is a hilarious and in-depth look at modern parenting as a parent I thoroughly enjoyed”
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Arcadia
Discussed“so I was writing this book while I was writing Arcadia which is my previous novel and I am fascinated by communities and Aradia was about this Utopian community and I thought what could be the smallest community on the planet”
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Knowing your value
Discussed“um although there were some practical answers and Janette Lao answered knowing your value by Ma brazinski it changed the way I worked including how I advise my clients on how they create their brand”
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Live From New York
Discussed“another non-fiction book that I also agree with and would not have thought of comes on Twitter from a reader named litah damasus and she says it's not necessarily the best but it's my favorite live from New York and uncensored history of Saturday Night Live”
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Did you ever have a family
Discussed“he is the author of did you ever have a family which is reviewed this week with a glowing review from kuay Hart hemings the author of The descendance and the possibilities among other books”
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Something rising (light and swift)
Discussed“it was Haven Kimmel who I worked with back then and she had a brilliant novel called something Rising light and Swift and she had chosen those six words as the epigraph for the novel and sent me the poem”
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Another day
Recommended“and uh those are two who are who are publishing um right now and um David Levan also who has a novel uh called Another Day that's coming out right now it's a young adult novel”
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The witches: Salem, 1692
Recommended“Stacy schiff's book about the Salem Witch Trials is coming out it's called The Witches”
The Rubin Report
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Manufacturing consent
Recommended“why do we only have five major media corporations in America when there used to be 50 in 1980 why can't we get this Drake told why does it when we nationalize the banks nobody calls it that and that's because they're all bought and paid for by the same people Reed manufacturing consent”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Future Perfect
Discussed“I read a book recently called future perfect uh don't remember the author Steven Johnson is the author another internet Tech web guy right”
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A Short History of Progress
Recommended“yeah there's a a beautiful book which I've recommended many times called a short history of progress by Ronald Wright a Canadian scientist”
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
Discussed“did you ever see requiem for a heavyweight yeah we talked about in the video my all-time favorite movie Anthony Quinn just the greatest actor”
Conversations with Tyler
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A capitalism for the people
Recommended“A Capitalism for the People, from three years ago is, in my view, perhaps the best book on the current American economy, what's wrong with it, and what should be done.”
