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Books podcasts were talking about in January 2016
In January 2016, literary discussions on podcasts highlighted anticipated adaptations, ongoing book series, and works examining productivity and modern distraction. On The Book Review, Alexandra Alter listed upcoming book adaptations she was looking forward to, including Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Paula Hawkins's best-selling novel The Girl on the Train. Pamela Paul brought up Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island to compare it with his latest work, and later introduced a series of productivity books, featuring Chris Bailey's The Productivity Project, David M. Levy's Mindful Tech, and David Pogue's Pogue's Basics. Greg Cowles also joined The Book Review to discuss new entries on the hardcover fiction bestseller list, highlighting Ian Rankin's ensemble detective novel Even Dogs in the Wild, Karen Marie Moning's latest installment Feverborn, and Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction novel Warriors of the Storm, which continued his established Saxon Tales series. These conversations collectively captured a literary landscape focused on contemporary habits, ongoing narrative universes, and anticipated cinematic adaptations.
The Book Review
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Notes from a small island
Discussed“so it's hard to start talking about this book without mentioning another book that you wrote 20 years ago notes from a small island”
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The Productivity Project
Discussed“we're going to talk about four books about distraction and what it does to our productivity and uh the four books are the productivity project by Chris Bailey”
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Mindful tech
Discussed“mindful Tech how to bring balance to our digital lives by David M Levy”
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Pogue's basics
Discussed“and poges Basics life essential tips and shortcuts that no one bothers to tell you by David POG”
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Even dogs in the wild
Discussed“the Scottish crime novelist Ian Rankin returns to the list uh he brings his detective John Rebus out of retirement for kind of an ensemble novel called even dogs in the wild”
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Feverborn
Discussed“Karen Marie moaning continues her fever series... it's called fever borne new at number 10”
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Warriors of the storm
Discussed“then at number eight Bernard Cornwell also continues um his series The Saxon Tales this is the ninth book in that series called Warriors of the storm”
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Blue
Discussed“Danielle Steel returns to the list and this is um her second bestseller in the past couple of months... this is a novel called Blue”
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Why the Right Went Wrong
Discussed“EJ Dion JR the journalist and columnist has a book uh about Republican politics kind of looking at how they've evolved since goldwater's time called why the right went wrong”
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Republic of Spin
Discussed“David Greenberg will join us to discuss his new book Republic of spin an inside history of the American presidency”
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A birthday cake for George Washington
Discussed“so on Sunday Scholastic announced that they are stopping the distribution of this book called a birthday cake for George Washington By Ramen ganeshram which was illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton”
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A Fine Dessert
Discussed“and oddly the controversy over refined dessert also showed um an enslaved mother and daughter baking together and uh the slave girl in that picture book was smiling and a lot of people thought that was disturbing”
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City of thorns
Discussed“Ben Rollins will be here to talk about his new book city of thorns”
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The Expatriates
Discussed“Janice YK Lee will be here to talk about her new novel The expatriates”
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The Danish Girl
Discussed“nominations went to the Danish girl which is based on a novel by David iof and Carol which is based on a Patricia heith novel”
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Carol
Discussed“nominations went to the Danish girl which is based on a novel by David iof and Carol which is based on a Patricia heith novel”
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The Piano Teacher
Discussed“yes I I started my novel in New York and then I finished it to a novel and a half the first one the piano teacher right”
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The guest room
Discussed“Chris boalan returns to the list with uh his new the guest room this is about a Suburban husband”
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Discussed“that is the force awakens the movie novelization by alen Dean Foster it's not actually the first novelization of the force weens to hit the list uh there's been a junior novelization kicking around the middle grade hard cover list”
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Recommended“some of the ones I'm really looking forward to are Billy Lynn's long halftime walk which is being adapted by angle and that's another book that I loved as well as uh the girl on the train which is based on the hugely best-selling novel by Paula Hawkins”
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Sex and race
Discussed“a book called I think it's called sex and race in America”
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The Big Con
Discussed“well I think David Moore put it best um back in 1940 in his book the big con where he called them the aristocrats of crime”
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Binge
Discussed“over in non-fiction um you have binge by Tyler Oakley it was last on the list over a month ago December 13th and here it is Boom at number five”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Smartest Kids in the World
Discussed“He was citing Amanda Ripley, who wrote a book called The Smartest Kids in the World and how they got that one.”
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The teacher wars
Discussed“That's Dana Goldstein, author of The Teacher Wars. So, we start from the assumption that our teachers are failing, and we know they're often not doing as well as we want them to.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Lore of Running
Discussed“he wrote a book called the lore of running”
The Rubin Report
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Primetime Propaganda
Discussed“There was a book called Prime Time propaganda by a young man named Ben Shapiro. We're getting him on the show and uh and because he looks so young and looks liberal whatever that means he was able to get on the record all these Hollywood producers people that did Golden Girls people that did cops and got them on”
