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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2016
In May 2016, podcasts explored a range of fiction, non-fiction, and personal journals. Greg Cowles appeared on The Book Review to express his admiration for Zoë Heller's debut novel Everything You Know and discussed Richard Russo's new sequel Everybody's Fool. In the same podcast series, Parul Sehgal shared that she was reading Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica. On Freakonomics Radio, Tim Ferriss recommended The Five-Minute Journal Method by Eugenio De Leon, noting that the journal, created by one of his readers, was helpful for setting daily tone and focus. Dave Rubin used his show The Rubin Report to recommend checking out Don Watkins and Yaron Brook's Equal Is Unfair in the description. Meanwhile, Balaji Srinivasan appeared on the a16z Podcast to cite Walter B. Wriston's earlier book The Twilight of Sovereignty as a source for The Sovereign Individual, discussing its early predictions about networks and distributed finance. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joey Diaz discussed Lorenzo Carcaterra's book Sleepers, expressing his strong opinion that the book was significantly better than its movie adaptation. Finally, Brendan Schaub brought up the documentary Sugarcoated on the same show, calling it terrifying.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Sleepers
Discussed“ever see the movie sleepers you ever see the movie sleepers which movie movie sleepers about the four kid heads explode no scanners the four kids who rob a hot dog man and by mistake a guy dies and they send them to a Jail who's in it uh look Allstar cast uh Brad Pit the N was the priest”
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Sugarcoated
Discussed“I just saw that documentary sugarcoated God have you seen it it's terrifying”
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Constitution
Discussed“we cannot set aside any rules or or create any laws that intentionally victimize certain segments of the population We all agree on that defit yeah like we make a new constitution type thing”
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The continuum concept
Discussed“I just read a book called The Continuum Concept, which is like a parenting thing about like babies as long they can be held by anyone.”
a16z Podcast
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The Twilight of Sovereignty
Discussed“so I've been the kicker be you know that book ripped off another book an order boy was that older book called the twilight of sovereignty interesting I mean she was written by a guy named Walter Wriston founder of Citibank”
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Only Humans Need Apply
Discussed“but the reason we have them today on the podcast is because they have a book that's just coming out called only humans need apply and the subtitle is winners and losers in the age of smart machines”
The Book Review
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The Queue
Discussed“I met a really interesting author basma abdulaziz who is an Egyptian novelist uh she was visiting New York because her novel The Q is being published in English this week by Melville House Press and it's a fascinating novel because she was inspired by the Arab Spring and kind of the disappointing aftermath of the Arab Spring”
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Sweetbitter
Discussed“Stephanie danler is coming of age in the restaurant world book Sweet Bitter has managed to knock out both Foodies and critics”
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Me Before You
Discussed“JoJo moyes's novel me before you was a bestseller when it came out in England in 2012 it was as the Brits say a real weepe and readers devoured it”
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The Fireman
Discussed“well the most significant newcomer on the hard cover fiction list is right at the top uh Joe Hill's new novel the fireman AKA AKA uh Joseph Hill King he is Stephen King's son”
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32 yolks
Discussed“yes he does down at number 13 the uh celebrity chef Eric repair who is uh the chef and a co-owner of um the four star Le Bernard in New York City has written a memoir called 32 yolks”
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The Half Has Never Been Told
Discussed“it's called the half has never been told by Edward Baptist it was one of our notable books of 2014 so I picked it up this week”
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Valiant ambition
Discussed“it's true all three of the new titles in non-fiction have recently been reviewed in uh the book review starting up at number five Nathaniel philbrick's new one valali and ambition of course he's also a bestselling regular”
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The Big Picture
Discussed“and actually I should clarify number 12 the big picture by Shan Carol we have not reviewed yet so I've just given something away we shall be reviewing wait we are planning a review of Sean Carroll's the big picture”
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The Secret War
Discussed“and at number 14 the popular historian Max Hastings has a book called The Secret War which looks at um the rise of the intelligence State and the use of intelligence uh during World War II”
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Everything you know
Recommended“I've uh I love her first novel everything you know”
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Locke & Key, Vol. 1
Discussed“one other winner that I thought was an interesting one was Lock and Key by Joe Hill um the the book is by Joe Hill”
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You May Also Like
Discussed“two new books address the question of why we like what we like my colleague Jen salai is here to talk about them hi Jen thanks for having me Pamela the two books are you may also like taste in an age of endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt and pretentiousness why it matters by Dan fox”
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Pretentiousness
Discussed“two new books address the question of why we like what we like my colleague Jen salai is here to talk about them hi Jen thanks for having me Pamela the two books are you may also like taste in an age of endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt and pretentiousness why it matters by Dan fox”
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Where I'm Reading From
Discussed“which is a collection of essays um by the critic uh and novelist Tim Parks called where I'm reading from the changing world of books”
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Women in Love
Discussed“and one of the uh examples he gives is from DH Lawrence's women in love the sentence that he cites in the original Lawrence is quote they both laughed looking at each other in their hearts they were frightened”
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Pumpkinflowers
Discussed“author and former Israeli soldier mty fredman is here to talk about his book pumpkin flowers”
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Thunder Boy Jr
Discussed“thunderboy is Alexis very first picture book”
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Skating to Antarctica
Recommended“so I've just been reading some of her essays but also her book skating to Antarctica”
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Everybody's Fool
Recommended“it was 1994 I think but it's set 10 years later it's called Everybody's Fool a sequel to Nobody's Fool”
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A tour of America's national parks
Discussed“if anybody remembers ù garrison keeler's review of bernard tour of America”
The Rubin Report
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Being Different
Discussed“he wrote a book called being different in 2011”
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Equal Is Unfair
Recommended“I want to thank your own Brooke for joining me today you guys can follow him on Twitter it's at your own Brook and he does respond and he'll fight with you and send you links and maybe he'll send you some of these pamphlets and you can check out his book equal is unfair in the description right down”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Five-Minute Journal Method
Recommended“The five-minute journal, which was created by a reader of mine, in fact, really, really helpful for setting the tone and focus for the day.”
