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Books podcasts were talking about in December 2017
Throughout December 2017, podcasts explored a diverse range of topics, including personal finance, comics history, sociology, and historical timelines. On ChooseFI, the host discussed Vincent Pugliese's "Freelance to Freedom," highlighting a key statistic regarding small business failures and tax burdens. Literary discussions on The Book Review featured Hillary Chute recommending David Hajdu's "The Ten-Cent Plague" regarding comics censorship, as well as Chris Ware's monograph. Gilbert Cruz introduced Linda Gordon to discuss her new book, "The Second Coming of the KKK," while Gal Beckerman recommended Maya Jasanoff's "The Dawn Watch" as his personal favorite. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Duncan Trussell brought up David Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules" and William Leonard Pickard's "The Rose of Paracelsus" during a conversation covering bureaucracy and historical figures. Finally, Neil deGrasse Tyson recommended "Timelines of History" on StarTalk Radio to help contextualize historical events. These varied discussions connected through an exploration of historical documentation, societal structures, and contemporary non-fiction.
The Book Review
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The Great Quake
Discussed“Henry Fountain will tell us about his new book the great quake”
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Firestorm
Discussed“two books mega fire the race to extinguish a deadly epidemic Flame by Michael cotus and Firestorm how Wildfire will shape our future by Edward strus”
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Kill All Normies
Discussed“I have a non-fiction book that came out this year called kill all normies online culture War I'll read the subhead because it'll give you more information”
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Beyond the Horizon
Discussed“I'm reading a book called Beyond the Horizon by Amad Darko and it's also a continuation of my personal quest to read more Gan female writers”
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The Story of the Jews,
Discussed“his latest book is the story of the Jews volume two belonging 1492 to 1900”
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Discussed“his new book is called meetings with remarkable manuscripts 12 Journeys into the Medieval World”
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The Jewish State
Discussed“I have to say one of the most significant non-liturgical forms of writing that you end the book with is Theodore herzl's pamphlet The Jewish state”
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Discussed“and that's um Dennis Johnson's postumus Story collection the laress of the sea maiden”
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Angels
Discussed“uh it followed the same character as the protagonist of his very first novel called Angels which came out in 1980”
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Operation Mincemeat
Discussed“well I finished operation mince meet by Ben McIntyre earlier this week um the subtitle is how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied Victory”
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The Secret River
Discussed“and the book is called the secret River”
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Women and Power
Discussed“Mary beard is here to discuss that question and her new book women and power a Manifesto”
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Why Comics?
Discussed“Hillary Cho is here to talk about her new book why comics from Underground to everywhere”
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Understanding Comics
Discussed“so the cartoonist and Comics serus Scott McLoud in his 1993 book understanding Comics put forward that awkward syntax”
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A Contract With God
Discussed“the very first book that had the words a graphic novel on the cover was will eisner's book a contract with God which was published in 1978 and Eisner claims to have coined this term”
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Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
Discussed“but I actually think that the work called this is kind of a mouthful Binky Brown meets the holy Virgin Mary which is a 44 page comic book from 1972 might qualify in my mind if I'm thinking of substance”
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Discussed“but his book Jimmy Corgan which was published in the year 2000 also really shifted up Comics culture”
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Building stories
Discussed“and and one of his more recent terrain shifting moments for Comics was the publication in 2012 of his book Building stories which is a book in a box”
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Angle of repose
Discussed“that is Wallace stagner and I'm reading what's considered his Masterpiece angle of repose which is a big kind of family epic set in the frontier days”
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Omensetter's Luck
Discussed“and I decided that I would try to start again a book that I never finished by him Omen Setter's luck and I think I'm failing again at Omen Setter's luck”
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Life sentences
Discussed“and then I was also dipping into some of his essays and he's you know he had put out several really Sublime Collections and this one is life sentences which I think might have been the last essay collection he put out in 2012”
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Girls to the Front
Discussed“I think for the moment it's a Sarah Marcus's book girls to the front which is uh a history of the riot Girl Movement”
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Outer Dark
Discussed“im reading outer dark which is the second of his first three novels and the third that I'm reading on this little jaunt I'm on”
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The Ten-Cent Plague
Recommended“this was chronicled very beautifully by David hadu in his book 10cent plague from a number of years ago”
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Monograph by Chris Ware
Recommended“I would highly recommend Chris wear's book monograph which just came out”
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BRIEF HISTORY OF MISOGYNY: THE WORLD'S OLDEST PREJUDICE
Discussed“so I am reading this book called misogyny the world's oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland and I picked it up”
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The second coming of the KKK
Recommended“Linda Gordon will join us to talk about her new book the second coming of the KKK”
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The dawn watch
Recommended“I really liked Amaya jasanoff's the dawn watch which also just came out pretty recently”
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Spy of the first person
Recommended“working on a final book which was released this week by Koff titled spy of the first person”
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Improvement
Recommended“this week I I am reading Janes Sil new novel Improvement”
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These possible lives
Recommended“included on her list this book that had kind of escaped my notice when the book review covered it a few weeks ago called these possible lives by a a woman named Flur jaggie”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Wayfarer in New York
Discussed“new evidence suggests the earliest known usage of the Big Apple in a book in the book the the wayfarer in New York”
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Robinson Crusoe
Discussed“alright Robinson Caruso Robinson Crusoe everyone says Robinson Caruso but it looks like Crusoe I say Caruso because I always think of Rick Carruth first published on the 25th of April 1719 the first editions blah blah plot summary Jesus get to the cliffnotes This is too long Crusoe but he was shipwrecked know about that did they do a”
ChooseFI
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Freelance to Freedom
Recommended“you know a very interesting statistic can across my desk recently as I was reading a book which we'll talk about in a future episode called freelance to freedom and the number one reason that small businesses fail is because the owners fail to plan for tax time or underestimate the tax burden”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Utopia of Rules
Recommended“and he wrote a book called I think it's called the Utopia of rules that I've been reading which is pretty [ __ ] badass”
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The Rose of Paracelsus
Recommended“He wrote this book called the rose of Pericles and it's this really cool book”
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The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
Recommended“and then I guess on the other end the best example I put point people at is generally Jacko's book it's not a book about hey no there I was which is the number one indicator of a story that's completely false as oh hey there there we were like not you're done”
StarTalk Radio
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Timelines of History
Recommended“in fact there's books they're called timelines of history where it's just timelines it's a timeline and it's like that cliff notes for time”
The Rubin Report
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Great plea for freedom, read it and you cannot resist it
Discussed“you know they remind me of one of the greatest things ever written about freedom of speech was titled a plea for free speech by Frederick Douglas former slave of course become abolitionist one of my favorite figures from American history he took part in a abolitionist meeting in Boston and it was shut down by hecklers the pro-slavery hecklers”
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Grundrisse
Discussed“but you know the problem with anti capitalism today is that it's incredibly it hates all the things about capitalism that the early Marx is actually quite liked which is international trade the internationalization of trade even the consumer society in the Grundy's Marx wrote about the wonders of advertising”