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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2017
During October 2017, literary podcasts explored a diverse mix of fiction, history, and true crime. On The Book Review, hosts and guests discussed several notable titles, including Benjamin Percy's horror novel The Dark Net, Jens Peter Jacobsen's late-19th-century work Niels Lyhne, and David Ricciardi's thriller Warning light. True crime and youth-related violence also drew significant attention when Gilbert Cruz brought up Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus alongside Michael Arntfield's Mad City. Meanwhile, historical and investigative topics appeared on other platforms. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Colin Moriarty discussed Charles C. Mann's 1491 while examining the state of the Americas prior to Columbus, and Adam Greentree recommended John Bailey's Mr Stuart's Track, which details early Australian exploration. Additionally, Clay Travis appeared on The Rubin Report to discuss Henry Cloud and John Townsend's book on handling difficult conversations, referencing So You've Been Publicly Shamed. These discussions highlighted a widespread interest in historical exploration, suspenseful narratives, and true-to-life crime accounts across various listener communities.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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1491
Discussed“I'm reading a book or I just read a book called 1491 which is about the condition of the North and South America and Central America before before Columbus”
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The Silence of the Lambs
Discussed“you know you know writing has gone like when you read Silence of the Lambs right it's just plain writing but sometimes you read these books with the writers go a little too far with their [ __ ] it's just too much”
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Mr Stuart's Track
Recommended“but some of the stories is he's got an awesome book well he doesn't have an awesome book because he's long gone but there's an awesome book out and called mr. Stuart's track”
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Biostatistics
Discussed“I have a book I weep reading under my desk by OSHA's biostatistics the bare essentials I read a lot of stats websites and try to improve in that area in terms of scientific thinking and and understanding statistics”
The Book Review
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The 57 Bus
Discussed“a few of the books that you looked at were sort of murder among the young and I'm specifically thinking about uh starting with the 57 BS a true story of two teenagers and the crime that changed their lives by daska Slater”
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Mad City
Discussed“There's another story in here to again um story about young people Mad City the true story of the campus murders that America Forgot by Michael arfield”
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Death in the Air
Discussed“death in the air the true story of a serial killer the great London Smog and the Strangling of a city by Kate Winkler Dawson”
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Black Dahlia, Red Rose
Discussed“well let's go to an unsolved murder um and I think this sounds like this one was your favorite among the books black red rose the crime corruption and cover up of America's greatest unsolved murder By Pew eatwell”
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Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits
Discussed“another book the last one among these also I think is very much about the historical context and that is Ballad of the anarchist Bandits the crime spree that gripped B EPO Paris by John marman”
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The Dark Net
Recommended“I'm I'm now reading a horror novel called the dark net by Benjamin Percy a novelist”
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Niels Lyhne
Recommended“the one I read is a novel by a Danish writer named Yen Peter Jacobson and the novel is called named after its protagonist Neil's Lynn n i LS and then L YH n so any Danish listeners can call in and correct me it's from the late 19th century”
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Please kill me
Discussed“and one of our models really in terms of how it reads was please kill me legs mcneel and Jillian McCain's book about the oral history of punk rock cuz I love the way that reads where you just see a name and what they said”
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The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent
Discussed“this particular collection is from penguin Classics and it's called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories but it was originally published together as a collection as the Sketchbook of Jeffrey crayon gentleman which is kind of wonderful”
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Rip Van Winkle
Discussed“um but I want to talk about ripan Winkle and I want to start off by asking have you any of you read rip fan Winkle no no right so it's one of those stories that you everyone knows about I don't think anyone really reads”
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Greater Gotham
Discussed“historian Mike Wallace will join us to talk about greater Gotham”
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Gotham
Discussed“his previous book Gotham history of New York City to 1898 won the Pitzer prize for history in 1999”
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Discussed“um so I'm reading two books right now I started with Alice Walker's in search of our mother's Garden”
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Look at Me
Discussed“she goes back and and looks at earlier novels including the only Jennifer Egan novel that I had never read which is called look at me it was her second novel”
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Manhattan Beach
Discussed“the Pulitzer prizewinning author will be here to talk about her new novel Manhattan Beach”
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World Without Mind
Discussed“Franklin fer will join us to talk about his new book world without mind”
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Move fast and break things
Discussed“do you think that you that Jonathan toppan wrote a book uh that came out earlier this year called move fast and break things in which he characterized these companies”
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One more warbler
Discussed“the name of the book is one more warbler a life with birds”
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The lost weekend
Discussed“the first is just a novel that's been on my shelf for a long time that I've been meaning to read which is Charles Jackson's The Lost weekend which was the inspiration for the Billy Wilder movie which I've never seen and I'm about halfway through the novel which is terrific”
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We Were Eight Years in Power
Discussed“the other thing I'm reading is tanasi coat's new book somewhat new it's a collection of pieces from the Atlantic over the past eight or nine years along with some new introductory Mini essays that he wrote for them called we were eight years in power an American Tragedy”
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My life as a Russian novel
Discussed“this is my life as a Russian novel”
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One Good Turn
Discussed“began reading um an old Kate Atkinson book this is one of her Jackson Broody novels called one good turn”
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Warning light
Recommended“it's a book called warning light the author's name is David richardi that's r i CC I a RDI”
The Rubin Report
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How to Have That Difficult Conversation You've Been Avoiding
Recommended“and that's a great book you probably have read it so you've been publicly shamed I think it was John I”
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Unwanted Advances
Discussed“we're continuing our partnership with learn liberty this week and joining me is author of unwanted advances sexual paranoia comes to campus as well as a professor in the Department of radio television and film at Northwestern University”
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Against Love
Discussed“and I wrote a book a number of years ago called against love a polemic which is a sort of attack on on monogamy and talking about the elephant in the room and long-term coupledom which is the fact that sexual desire often doesn't persist as long as you know a long-term 30-year marriage does so”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Perfect Storm
Discussed“I remember reading when I read that book a perfect storm they went through all of drowning and now your brain sitting there firing all that that last bit of life all this brain activity's going trying to get your heart going and just doesn't happen and then that's it from the lack of oxygen”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Gluten Lie
Discussed“He's also the author of a book called The Gluten Lie and Other Myths About What You Eat. Right, exactly. You may be wondering why a religion professor has written a book about diet.”
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What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You about Food
Discussed“He's also the author of a book called The Gluten Lie and Other Myths About What You Eat. Right, exactly. You may be wondering why a religion professor has written a book about diet.”
Conversations with Tyler
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Spook
Discussed“this my favorite study from spook my second book was the University of Virginia psychologist who studies near-death experience had this idea”
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In a Sunburned Country
Discussed“Bill Bryson's writing not a specific book of his although in a sunburnt country is a wonderful mix of just everything that you would want to know about Australia and I was this book came out as I was on my way to Australia”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Flavor
Discussed“you know James Beard award-winning book flavor yeah how many to your than 13 but this is 30 now”
StarTalk Radio
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Grunt
Discussed“So I figured Okay. Then they plunked a book down in front of me called Grunt, the curious science of humans at war.”
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Dear America
Discussed“Actually, I have this book called Dear Dear America, which is a collection of letters home from Vietnam, right?”
a16z Podcast
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WTF
Discussed“and I think you know the point that I kind of come to in the book is we have to actually come back and effectively debug are the rules by which we're running our society”
ChooseFI
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Giraffes Can't Dance
Discussed“I read a bunch of books I read uh Giraffes Can't Dance which is a neat one”
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