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Books podcasts were talking about in December 2016
Books podcasts were talking about in December 2016 spanned notable recent releases, enduring classics, and personal recommendations across several literary and conversational programs. On The Rubin Report, Tim Ferriss appeared on the episode Groupthink in Silicon Valley and Tools of Titans to recommend rereading Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, noting themes related to censorship and the burning of books. The ChooseFI podcast featured discussion about Tim Ferriss's work, specifically when the host mentioned The 4-Hour Workweek as the original inspiration for starting an online business on the episode Why Failure Matters. Meanwhile, The Book Review dedicated multiple episodes to discussing notable literature of the year and holiday reads. During discussions on the 100 Notable Books of 2016, Barry Gewen recommended Melanie Finn's novel The Gloaming, which follows a woman involved in a terrible accident, alongside Jessi Klein's collection of comic essays You'll Grow Out of It. In subsequent episodes covering the best books of the year, Greg Cowles discussed Don DeLillo's novel Zero K and Evelyn Waugh's 1938 novel Scoop, while Aleta Becker highlighted Elizabeth Strout's multi-layered novel My Name Is Lucy Barton. Additionally, Greg Cowles recommended Dylan Thomas's holiday story A Child's Christmas in Wales in a pocket-sized edition from New Directions, showcasing a diverse range of fiction and non-fiction discussed across these media platforms during the final month of the year.
The Book Review
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Other Minds
Discussed“Author Peter Godfrey Smith joins us to talk about his new book other Minds The Octopus the Sea and the Deep origins of Consciousness”
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Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
Discussed“Author Peter Godfrey Smith joins us to talk about his new book other Minds The Octopus the Sea and the Deep origins of Consciousness”
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Whiplash
Discussed“Jeff how will be here to talk about his new book Whiplash how to survive our faster future”
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Discussed“there was the Harry Potter and the curs child which I think set a new record when it sold more than 2 million copies in North America in the first two days of sale”
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Sick in the Head
Discussed“I am reading uh a book that came out last year um by Jud appau called sick in the head and it's really a collection of interviews that appau did with fellow comedians”
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
Recommended“and moved right on to another British writer um Dylan Thomas new directions earlier this year put out um a a very small like a true pocket sized edition of the Dylan Thomas story a child's Christmas in Wales”
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My Name is Lucy Barton
Recommended“well my name is Lucy Barton is a small book but I think one with so many different layers”
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Zero K
Recommended“a book that I really loved this year was um D dilo's zero”
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Scoop
Recommended“well John last week talked about — uh a novel that he just read called schlump and in a kind of spasm of free association it led me to order — uh Evelyn W's great 1938 novel scoop”
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The Sport of Kings
Discussed“and then a bigger book that you know got a lot of attention um was CE Morgan's novel the sport of Kings which uh is a is a very big and sweeping novel about uh Kentucky history”
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His final battle
Discussed“the other book I want to mention in in a similar vein is Joseph levelt's his final battle the last month of Franklin Roosevelt”
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Egyptomania
Discussed“Ronald fritzy tracks this Rich subject in his new book egyptomania a history of Fascination Obsession and fantasy”
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The day before happiness
Discussed“this year it went to the Italian novelist Ary duuk who won for a quite interesting description of a sexual act in his novel The Day Before happiness which is the story of a Neapolitan orphan growing up after World War II”
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All things cease to appear
Discussed“I'm reading a thriller that came out earlier this year called All Things cease to appear by Elizabeth Brundage and um it's it's a literary Thriller”
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Schlump
Discussed“the other one is the uh wonderfully titled schlump uh which is the title character in a 1928 novel about World War I that was written anonymously by Hans Herbert Grim”
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The gloaming
Recommended“I have one that's maybe a little below the radar um it's a small press uh book called the gloaming by Melanie Finn which is a novel about um a woman who is um involved in this terrible accident in the Swiss Village”
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You'll grow out of it
Recommended“the other one is called you'll grow out of it by Jesse kleene which is series of comic essays by the headwriter of Inside Amy Schumer”
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Happy all the time
Recommended“this is a novel that came out in 1978 um by a writer named Lori cwin it's um called happy all the time”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
Discussed“the Irish are the same way the Irish have you know they saved the Bible there's this book called How the Irish saved civilization”
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The Archaic Revival
Discussed“you know Steve Jobs archaic revival is that it aric Revival yeah that's it that's right”
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Coyotes
Discussed“This is one of one of the things I found out from this coyote America book that I read was that they don't just look at a cat as a something to eat.”
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The Essential Lenny Bruce
Discussed“I read the book by Lenny Bruce ladies and gentlemen when he lived at the Chelsea Hotel”
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The Divide
Recommended“like another great book by taibi is the Divide talks about this it's like it's like mat Matt Tai Matt Tai love that guy”
The Rubin Report
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Fahrenheit 451
Recommended“I think that everyone should reread Fahrenheit 451 because if uh some people might recall reading it in high school and they think of this uh the the tyrannical government uh that is forcing the burning of books and of course the some of they main characters but you have these firemen who are in charge of burning books and”
ChooseFI
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Armas de titanes
Recommended“I think the original Genesis of just having any idea of starting an online business was Tim ferriss's the four hour work week yeah I'm sure many of you out there have read if not highly recommend It's a Wonderful book you know”
a16z Podcast
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Jugaad Innovation
Discussed“We're in the business of that, so it's kind of hard not to use that word, but I will say that the concept that comes to mind is this concept of jugaad innovation, which is a term that Navi Radjou wrote about a few years ago”
