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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2016
During June 2016, various podcasts featured discussions on notable books and literature. On The Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus highlighted Robert P. Jones's book The End of White Christian America, describing it as an insightful read by the CEO of a religion think tank institute, and also recommended David Cole's Engines of Liberty as an optimistic look at citizen activism and constitutional law. In the same episode, Pamela Paul recommended Alexander Frater's travel book Chasing the Monsoon to Parul Sehgal. Later in the month on The Book Review, listener Winona Wagner recommended Tom Robbins's novel Still Life with Woodpecker, while host Pamela Paul recommended Rivka Galchen's slender essay collection Little Labors. Reviewer Marjorie Engel also appeared on the podcast to recommend Julie Berry's 500-page historical novel The Passion of Dolssa, set in 13th-century Provence, alongside Gayle Forman's young adult novel Just One Day. Elsewhere, on The Joe Rogan Experience, Russell Brand recommended Robert Lanza and Bob Berman's Biocentrism, praising its breakdown of the double-slit experiment and its exploration of reality and consciousness.
Freakonomics Radio
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Discussed“So we're going to have to go all the way back to 1774 when this novel came out. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.”
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The Last Gift of Time
Discussed“She even wrote a book called The Last Gift of Time, Life Beyond 60. Her daughter says she took a lot of pleasure in life, even the small things.”
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Discussed“You know, I was just reminded of, you know, the days when Charles Dickens used to publish his novels in serial form. And there'd be people standing, Londoners standing on the docks waiting for the latest chapters of the old curiosity shop to be delivered because they were dying to know, like, is Little Nell going to be all right?”
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The Sonic Boom
Discussed“He's written a book called Sonic Boom, How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy. He has a lot of examples of how sound functions in ways that we might not necessarily think about.”
The Book Review
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Jackson, 1964
Discussed“he joins us now to talk about his new book Jackson 1964”
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Going red
Discussed“one of the books that I review I think it's going red refers to Trump in the past tense”
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Poison Tea
Discussed“therefore a book like uh the one on the big money that goes into the the Tea Party on Tobacco poison te how big oil and big tobacco invented the Tea Party and captured the GOP by Jeff NE bit”
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The Way Back
Discussed“let's talk about another book that comes uh from the perspective of the right the way back restoring the promise of America by FH Buckley”
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Raising the floor
Discussed“because those are the issues that speak to the heroes of another book I reviewed called raising the floor by Andy Stern”
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Trump and me
Discussed“so some of the stuff that's coming up soon includes Mark Singer book Trump and me that's coming out on July 5th”
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Lost Tycoon
Discussed“another book that is in the works that's kind of being repackaged is lost Tycoon by the journalist Harry hurt and that was released in 1993 by Norton”
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The making of Donald Trump
Discussed“those include a book called The Making of Donald Trump by David K Johnston he's of course a former times person yes he's a polar surprise winning investigative reporter”
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Trump Revealed
Discussed“and similarly also in August Scribner is publishing Trump revealed which is a book that is being reported by a team of Washington Post journalists”
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Day of the Donald
Discussed“there is a Thriller Parody called The Day of the Donald by Andrew schaer and that takes place”
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A child's first book of Trump
Discussed“and there's a a child's first book of Trump by the comedian Michael Ian Black which is coming out”
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Barkskins
Discussed“the two biggest books on the hard cover fiction list probably um are both new Annie PR bark skins which is the I I talked about it on the podcast last week”
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Invisible influence
Discussed“at number 11 uh the the Wharton School Professor uh Jonah Berger has a book called invisible influence that is looking at kind of thought leaders social influence”
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City Primeval - High Noon in Detroit
Discussed“and at the very beginning of this year my friend Charlie uh gave me his book City primeval which is it has the subtitle High Noon in Detroit”
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Get Shorty
Discussed“um and it starts with Get Shorty which i' had seen uh in the movies when it came out um it didn't do much for me as a movie”
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The end of White Christian America
Recommended“there is a book called the end of white Christian America by Robert P Jones who is the CEO of a religion Think Tank Institute”
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Engines of Liberty
Recommended“David Cole the author of engines of Liberty the power of Citizen activists to make constitutional law may be the most optimistic book in the group”
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Chasing the monsoon
Recommended“um uh it this book came out I think about 20 years ago but um was called chasing the monsoon do you know this book”
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In the Darkroom
Discussed“can a career of writing about feminism and Womanhood prepare you for your father telling you in his 70s that he's become a woman Susan fudi is here to talk about her new Memoir in the dark room”
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But What If We're Wrong?
Discussed“at number five Chuck claer the cultural critic and essayist has a book called but what if we're wrong new it number five”
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Still Life with Woodpecker
Recommended“and one summer when I was 20 I read still life with woodpecker by Tom Robbins as I was traveling through Spain”
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Little labors
Recommended“it's called Little labors by rivka galin and it's this slender little meditation on the idea of the baby”
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First Dads
Discussed“Joshua Kendall joins us now his new book is called first dads parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama Josh thank you for being here”
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America's Obsessives
Discussed“my last book was America's obsessives in which I profiled seven uh control freaks who who became towering figures starting with Thomas Jefferson and going through Steve Jobs”
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The Hamilton Affair
Discussed“the other books that are coming up this summer and fall include Elizabeth Cobb's historical novel The Hamilton Affair which is due out this August and the demand is so strong for that again based on the musical that her publisher has increased the first printing to 75,000 copies”
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Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life
Discussed“and so beyond the novel there's another book coming out in the fall from three ever's press and it's called Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life”
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The End of American Childhood
Discussed“and this week she reviews the end of American Childhood a history of parenting from life on the frontier to the managed Child by Paula fast”
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The View From the Cheap Seats
Discussed“uh Neil Gaiman who is of course known as a Comics writer and a novelist has a collection of non-fiction uh it's called the view from the cheap seats”
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The world according to Star Wars
Discussed“he's got a book new it number 13 about Star Wars It's Called The World According to Star Wars”
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The Most Of Nora Ephron
Discussed“I'm reading the most recent collection of nor afron's collected uh work called the most of Nora afron”
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Before the Fall
Discussed“why did a private jet leaving Martha's Vineyard crash into the sea leaving only two survivors before the fall takes an unexpected turn in the hands of its author Noah Holly”
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Far and Away
Discussed“how do you pull together 25 years of brilliant travel writing and foreign reportage Andrew Solomon is here to talk about Far and Away a collection of his writing filed from around the world”
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The good father
Discussed“yeah the last book was uh called the good father and and it was the story of a doctor who was on a second marriage and there was a assassination of a presidential candidate and there was a knock on his door and the son from his first marriage had been arrested and he goes on a journey to try”
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The Haters
Discussed“the haters is about um is also about musicians that's the Jess the new Jesse Andrews novel”
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The passion of Dolssa
Recommended“my favorite Against All Odds was the passion of dulsa which is 500 pages and set in the 13th century in uh you know vintage provance and it has every attribute of a book I would not want to read and it is so so so good and I really hope it finds an audience because it's really about religion”
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Just One Day
Recommended“there is um just one day in just one year by Gail Foreman are also I mean I think we all like these road trip books there's something really you know there it's both classical folkloric Heroes Journey stuff and it's also I think that's what we associate it's such a resonant teenage thing so it's um a girl who's”
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This One Summer
Recommended“we could mention in a previous book by one of the authors we reviewed in the summer reading issue U Maro Tamaki this one summer oh and the the art was done by her cousin Jillian Tamaki that is just one of the most um emotionally gorgeous resonant books again about a summer”
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Recommended“we should say if you if you haven't read uh The Peculiar Children Trilogy uh that is that is one that really hits home and it's just uh also beautifully written and dark it's incredibly dark and it has a little bit of a visual it's got these crazy vintage uh postcard photos in it that kind of tell the”
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Grief is the thing with feathers
Recommended“it is Max Porter's debut novel grief is the thing with feathers you might recognize the title as a reference to Hope is the thing with feathers the Emily Dickinson poem um this book is about a father whose young wife has died suddenly and unexpectedly and now his grief has manifested itself in um the literal physical form of”
Conversations with Tyler
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Star Wars
Discussed“Your book is now number one on the Washington Post best-seller list. It’s on other best-seller lists.”
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Discussed“What’s the most underrated Bob Dylan album? SUNSTEIN: That’s a great question. I’m going to say The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. And it’s a bit of a risky choice because people don’t think it’s bad. It’s in the top seven, probably, and some people would put it in the top five.”
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Possession
Discussed“Now, you’re intrigued by the John Stuart Mill–Harriet Taylor correspondence and also by Byatt’s novel Possession from the early ’90s. I think you once said it was your favorite novel.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Biocentrism
Recommended“darn good book that I reckon your listeners will be Bang into is called biocentrism by a man called Rob ber Lanza who he did the best breakdown I've ever read of that double slit experiment and of and of the the the you know made me understand for the first time that reality is happening within your own Consciousness”
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Coming of Age in the Other America
Discussed“all that's in this book they talk about that is coming of age in the other America that I mean they talk about these things where that's one of the the predictors is how much exposure to violence that these kids have had when they were going between the ages of zero and 10”
a16z Podcast
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The Sharing Economy
Discussed“and the other reason we're gonna stick to it is because it happens to be the title of a runes new book which is called the sharing economy the end of employment and the rise of crowd-based capitalism”
