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Books podcasts were talking about in March 2018
In March 2018, podcasts highlighted a wide range of works touching on family dynamics, political history, personal transformation, and investigative reporting. On The Book Review, Gilbert Cruz introduced Luis Alberto Urrea's novel The House of Broken Angels and Martin Doyle's book about rivers, The Source. Tina Jordan shared that she was reading Christina Lynch's newly released novel set in 1950s Italy, The Italian Party, while Pamela Paul discussed Alan Cumming's memoir Not My Father's Son. Political and social issues also drove book discussions elsewhere. Appearing on Pod Save America, Joe Biden recommended Joan C. Williams's White Working Class to listeners to understand class politics and cluelessness, and another host on the same show recommended Ronan Farrow's upcoming book concerning the State Department. Personal resilience formed another major theme; on The Joe Rogan Experience, Pat Miletich recommended David Clark's Out There: A Story of Ultra Recovery when discussing endurance sports and overcoming severe alcoholism. These discussions collectively reflected a strong interest in human resilience, investigative depth, and cultural history.
The Book Review
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A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
Discussed“so I thought this week we could talk about the Runaway Bunny bestseller that has taken the publishing World by storm of course I'm talking about John Oliver's parody book A Day in the Life of marlin bundo”
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Daniel Deronda
Discussed“I uh just finished rereading um George Elliot's Daniel D and I think so much of what you're saying really applies”
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The House of Broken Angels
Recommended“Luis Alberto Ura will join us to talk about his new novel The House of broken Angels”
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The source
Recommended“Martin Doyle will join us to talk about his book The Source”
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The Italian party
Recommended“so this book that I'm reading this week which is called the Italian Party by Christina Lynch is just now out and I fully confess I picked it up because of the cover”
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That's what she said
Discussed“and so I wrote that's what she said because I felt like we need to bring men into this conversation”
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American innovations
Discussed“American Innovations by rivka gin”
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How should a person be?
Discussed“how should a person be by Sheila HTI”
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Her Body and Other Parties
Discussed“her body and other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado”
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Homesick For Another World
Discussed“homesick for another world bya mve NW by Zade Smith”
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Salvage the Bones
Discussed“salvaged the bones by jine Mard and mislaid by Nel zinc”
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Mislaid
Discussed“salvaged the bones by jine Mard and mislaid by Nel zinc”
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Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America
Discussed“Cass sunstein joins us to talk about his two latest books impeachment a citizen's guide and authoritarianism in America”
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Victorians Undone
Discussed“historian Katherine Hughes joins us to talk about her new book victorians undone”
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The Moonstone
Discussed“well I started talking a little bit about it last week I'm reading um wilky Collins's the Moonstone which I guess for some people is maybe the favorite wilky Collins although I think most people would choose the woman in white”
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Fair Shot
Discussed“Felix salmon will join us to talk about fair shot the new book by Chris Hughes”
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Daisy Miller
Discussed“and then I read Daisy Miller which is james' short book it's almost just a a Nela really about um a young girl who gets corded by winterborn this man who finds her very Innocent but charming and everyone else thinks she's just a crass American and I enjoy that a lot”
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My Family and other Animals
Recommended“so I'm reading my family and other animals which is a a memoir by the British naturalist Gerald derell and I have to put it in context a little bit”
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Not My Father's Son
Recommended“I will confess that what I just finished was a celebrity Memoir but it's a very un celebrity-like celebrity Memoir Alan Cummings Memoir not my Father's son which has you know a little bit of hint of Glamour here and there because he is alen and I am a super fan of especially his of course his appearance in Cabaret”
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Eat the apple
Discussed“he is the author of a new Memoir called eat the apple”
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The yellow birds
Discussed“most of the other books I think the were at least the ones that have gotten a lot of attention have been fiction you know whether it's Heaven powers' the yellow birds”
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Time's Arrow
Discussed“and he wrote and he wrote times Arrow which is the famous Holocaust novel told in reversed”
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Call Me by Your Name
Discussed“what you think about some of the maybe literary adaptations yeah well I think I think the the the big one is uh call me by your name Andre aiman's novel”
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A Tokyo Romance
Discussed“uh Ian brm is new Memoir a Tokyo romance you know we all know who Ian bumma is I mean this this this extremely well regarded Dutch historian”
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Blue dreams
Discussed“well I mean I took things in a very depressing direction as always and reviewed a book called Blue Dreams by Lauren Slater that sort of looks at this”
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Prozac Diary
Discussed“so if you've been following Slater's trajectory she published Prozac diary when she was I think 26 or 27”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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True and False
Discussed“I can't even you every David Mamet true and false uh uh you need to say that”
a16z Podcast
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The Lean Startup
Discussed“Tito didn’t win by producing subpar cars faster; instead, he focused on making higher quality cars quickly with shorter market times. The lean manufacturing method inspired the Lean Startup approach and closely ties to DevOps, stemming from lean methodologies.”
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Accelerate
Discussed“and this is when the key results in the book in our research is this fact the high performers do better everything because the capabilities that enable high performance in one field if done right enable it in other fields”
Pod Save America
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White Working Class
Recommended“I recommend to your listeners there's a book written by Professor Williams it is really worth a read is called the white working-class”
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Catch and Kill
Recommended“and and I'll just you know Ronan Farrow has a book coming out about the decline of the State Department And having seen some of the reporting he does in the book about what Tillerson was doing inside of the department I will only say it's worth checking out for now”
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The Hadj
Discussed“He also apparently trip also told Cory or told hope that she was quote the best piece of tail Lewandowski ever had that was in the Michael Wolfe book”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Dear Leader
Discussed“Michael Mouse has a great book about it is it called dear reader is that the name of his book”
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The Corporation
Discussed“and how long when you when you writing in a book like the corporation which is your new book or Westies or any of your books”
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Out There
Recommended“just read in his book which is called out there ultra recovery a guy that was three hundred twenty pound alcoholic who changed his life one day and decided to become a badass ultra runner”
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Buck, Buck, Moose
Discussed“and Gacy got a couple of books out, one of them was buck buck moose, I think I had it sitting here for a while till we moved everything off this table”
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How to Fix the Future
Recommended“he wrote a book called how to fix the future”
ChooseFI
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Predictably Irrational
Discussed“I actually immediately thought back to like Jonathan you're saying about learning and pulling out these actionable techniques about this book that I read by Dan ariely called predictably irrational and there was a chapter there that was incredibly powerful on social norms”
The Rubin Report
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36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Discussed“when she talked about her novel 36 arguments for the existence of God a work of fiction which is kind of a great”
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An End to Evil
Recommended“follow him on twitter at david fromm and check out his book from Bhakra see in the link right down below”
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Trumpocracy
Recommended“for more on David follow him on twitter at david fromm and check out his book from Bhakra see in the link right down below”
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The Essential Whole Earth Catalog
Discussed“one of them was Stewart Brand who was sort of the original hippie you know Whole Earth Catalog advisor to Governor Brown in the 70s he wrote a famous essay in 2005 and in a book in 2009 and by the time I read the book in 2009 I was pretty persuaded because he just went through all the evidence”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Clean protein
Discussed“I love the new book it's great I think it's timely and it kind of hits the way I thought of it is it really canvases like all the major issues it's almost like this synthesis of a lot of the works that are currently out there including I had Paul Shapiro in here a couple weeks ago you know”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Naked Lunch
Discussed“did he write Naked Lunch yeah he wrote naked we did yes am amongst other things Nova Express”
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Nova Express
Discussed“we did yes am amongst other things Nova Express yeah the guy was a genius”
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Sex, Drums, Rock 'N' Roll
Discussed“mention sex drums in rock and roll is his book the hardest hitting man in show business Kenny Aronoff”
Freakonomics Radio
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Presidential Power
Discussed“There was a man named Richard Neustadt, a professor at Harvard, who once wrote a book called The Presidential Power.”
