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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2018
During June 2018, book discussions on podcasts spanned cyber warfare, household organization, public policy, and professional growth. On The Book Review, host Pamela and critic Dwight Garner discussed several prominent titles, including David E. Sanger's The Perfect Weapon about cyber warfare, Stacy Horn's Damnation Island regarding nineteenth-century New York, and Deborah Levy's memoir The Cost of Living. Practical guides also drew interest. On ChooseFI, the host mentioned checking out Cut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff to find actionable strategies for dealing with household clutter. Meanwhile, professional and political themes appeared on other shows. Dave Rubin promoted Nadine Strossen's work on hate speech on The Rubin Report, and on Modern Wisdom, Warren Cass recommended Daniel Priestley's Entrepreneur Evolution as a strong resource for raising a professional profile and managing one's reputation. Across these various podcasts, hosts and guests highlighted works that offered listeners either deep investigative journalism, personal memoirs, or practical strategies for everyday life and career advancement.
The Book Review
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Swimming home
Discussed“all of a sudden she had these two novels hot milk and swimming home”
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The history of White people
Discussed“and also while this is going on she's finishing her book the history of white people which is a very big book for her”
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The Perfect Weapon
Recommended“David Sanger is a national security correspondent for the times and the author of a new book The Perfect Weapon War sabotage and fear in the Cyber age”
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Fear
Recommended“David Sanger is a national security correspondent for the times and the author of a new book The Perfect Weapon War sabotage and fear in the Cyber age”
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Damnation Island
Recommended“Stacy horn joins us now to talk about her new book damnation Island poor sick mad and criminal in 19th century York Stacy thank you for being here”
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The cost of living
Recommended“and so I was really excited that she has a new Memoir out called help me out here the cost of living”
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Atticus Finch
Discussed“Joseph crispino will be here to talk about his new book attakus Finch the biography Harper Lee her father and the making of an American icon”
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The Fair Chase
Discussed“Philip Dre will join us to talk about his book fair chase the Epic story of hunting in America”
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Pale horse, pale rider
Recommended“well one of the things I recently picked up was Pale Horse Pale Rider which is a collection of three novellas from kathern Anne Porter”
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Zuckerman unbound
Recommended“and then I read for the first time the next two Zuckerman Unbound and now I'm about a third of the way through the anatomy lesson”
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The Anatomy Lesson
Recommended“and then I read for the first time the next two Zuckerman Unbound and now I'm about a third of the way through the anatomy lesson”
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The Girls
Recommended“so let me just backtrack to the the plot um Eevee is sort of narrating from later in life she's middle-aged and sort of a drift she she's kind of lost herself and um she remembers a story of when she was a young teenager very impressionable”
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Salt to the Sea
Recommended“but what I read this past week was a ya novel by a writer named rud sepodes called salt of the sea Ruda sepes”
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Between Shades of Gray
Recommended“the first one Between Shades of Gray I first read when I was the children's books editor here and it was the first novel I think that I came across as as an editor”
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Amity and Prosperity
Discussed“so this week I reviewed a book called Amity and prosperity by Eliza Griswald it's a book where she essentially spent seven years following this community”
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Unbound
Discussed“I reviewed a book called Unbound by Arlene Stein and it's a book about what it means to be a trans man today and she follows four people three people who more or less identify as trans men”
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And Then We Danced
Recommended“alford's new book is called and then we danced a voyage into the groove”
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The efficiency paradox
Discussed“Edward tenner will be here to talk about his new book the efficiency Paradox”
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Why things bite back
Discussed“you tell us a little bit about your first two books why things bite back and our own devices and then sort of how the efficiency Paradox continues”
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Our own devices
Discussed“you tell us a little bit about your first two books why things bite back and our own devices and then sort of how the efficiency Paradox continues”
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The Death of Mrs Westaway
Discussed“so I've picked up Ruth we's the death of Mrs Westway”
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The Woman in Cabin 10
Discussed“uh she's British and I then liked very much one called the woman in Cabin 10 and the reason I liked that is that it was a closed door mystery”
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The juniper tree
Recommended“the first novel that I want to talk about is a book called The juniper tree by Barbara comans and it was reissued earlier this year by New York Review books”
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High Dive
Recommended“and then I picked up a book called High Dive by the writer Jonathan Lee”
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Discussed“paleontologist Steve brusati joins us to talk about his new book the rise and fall of the dinosaurs”
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The Outsider
Discussed“novelist and critic Victor Laval and Gilbert Cruz culture editor here at the Times join me to talk about Stephen King's latest novel The Outsider and frankly all of Stephen King”
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Night Shift
Discussed“I think my first I was probably 10 or 11 and it was his a book of stories night shift and um that sort of segwayed to”
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Goodbye, Columbus
Discussed“I mean goodbye Columbus where he starts is all about the internal fractures within American Community different kinds of Jews”
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When she was good
Discussed“the two novels between goodbye Columbus and por no's complaint when she was good and and letting go are sort of his buttoned up respectable literary”
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Letting go
Discussed“the two novels between goodbye Columbus and por no's complaint when she was good and and letting go are sort of his buttoned up respectable literary”
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The Counterlife
Discussed“sensing the counterlife coming out and the counterlife is the one for me the counterlife is”
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The Human Stain
Discussed“there's the zukerman trilogy which introduces this character of Nathan zukerman who would be also the perceiving consciousness of uh American pastoral and Human Stain”
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Indignation
Discussed“I picked up indignation which is one of the few I hadn't read before and it's a later novel yeah it's a later novel”
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Exit Ghost
Discussed“yeah he did a little the there was this there was this moment in exit ghost where he's exiled himself to Connecticut”
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Masonry in the Formation of Our Government, 1761-1799
Discussed“and and and from the some of the very earliest stories like defender of the faith there there is this this this Kern of like”
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The Ghost Writer
Discussed“I mean the the whole the whole Anne Frank subplot my God in in the Ghost Rider is is just”
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Dinosaurs
Recommended“uh the book again is the rise and fall of the dinosaurs a new history of a Lost World by Steve”
ChooseFI
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Cut the clutter
Recommended“so I ended up with uh four books that were focused on different things that I want to focus on and one of them the title is cut the Clutter and Stow the stuff at a library near you”
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Cut the clutter and stow the stuff
Recommended“so I ended up with uh four books that were focused on different things that I want to focus on and one of them the title is cut the Clutter and Stow the stuff at a library near you”
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The year of less
Discussed“seven and a half years ago you described in the intro to your book you said as a teenager I would often come home from school to find my bed littered with newspaper articles stories about interest rates retirement savings plans”
The Rubin Report
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My Farmer Husband
Discussed“he wrote a wonderful book about it afterwards called defending my enemy which I quote in my book”
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Joint Inspection of the Handling of Cases Involving Disability Hate Crime
Recommended“and for more on Nadine check out her new book hate”
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Who Really Cares
Discussed“well so so I'm not sure although I do remember this book is probably a little old by now called who really cares by Arthur Brooks have you ever come across”
Modern Wisdom
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The Hands of Nara
Discussed“you've got their psychology of persuasion by child Eenie a brilliant book written in the 1980s and he has done some work since there”
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Entrepreneur Revolution
Recommended“so in terms of other books is that there's a load out there and I'm a fan of Daniel priestly and go and have a look at some of his work entrepreneur evolution It's a good one”
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Who Moved My Cheese?
Recommended“you know bearing in mind the biggest thing that we talked about today was some at the beginning we surround change go and go and read who moved my cheese”
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Pre-Suasion
Recommended“have a look at charlie knees follow up book two to psychology persuasion which is called pre suasion preservation seems pretty heavily touted at the moment”
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The Pomodoro Technique
Discussed“it's interesting that you mentioned the Pomodoro Technique which I am currently reading the illustrated guide to the Pomodoro Technique in a desperate attempt to try and make my work my work life a little bit more optimal”
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Lost Connections
Discussed“I've got Johann Hari the author of lost connections I've got him coming on very soon”
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... In Praise of Folly
Discussed“and yeah it talks about I think was it Erasmus or so yeah who says that we have to embrace our folly and our ridiculousness and realize the appraiser folly is the UH in praise of folly”
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His Dark Materials
Discussed“and so you have both read or listened to his dark materials on you mm-hm there's this concept in that which keeps on coming up anyone who hasn't it's a series of books by Philip Pullman they butchered it when they tried to turn the first one into a film out here Northern Lights”
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Northern Lights
Discussed“it's a series of books by Philip Pullman they butchered it when they tried to turn the first one into a film out here Northern Lights”
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Scar Tissue
Discussed“I thought I had just read the book scar tissue by Anthony Kiedis and in that book he goes through like I don't know half a dozen short stint rehab centers like 30 days and they're all in Malibu and he talks about like meeting meeting some fine chicks and stuff”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Hard Stuff
Recommended“he has a wonderful book coming out called the hard stuff ever ever talk to Wayne”
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Mystic Chemist
Discussed“they have a book called the mystic chemist about Albert Hofmann”
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Changing Our Minds
Discussed“and he wrote a book that they published called changing our minds ironically about the same time Michael Pollan brought his book out”
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The Psilocybin Solution
Discussed“you know I think we've talked before about Simon Powell's work he wrote about he writes about psilocybin wrote a psilocybin solution and that was this first book”
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Magic Mushroom Explorer
Discussed“and I think his latest is the magic mushroom Explorer”
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The Invisible Landscape
Discussed“and we wrote the invisible landscape in our first book it's four people have no idea what we're talking about”
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Discussed“his first book was called the serpent of the rainbow all right that was made into a film”
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Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs
Recommended“ethnic illogic search for psychoactive drugs two volumes 1967 and vol 2 2017 50 years of elbow where can people get”
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Fit for Life
Discussed“I read a book called fit for life when I was a 20 right before my first marathon I was 21 or 22 years old”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
Recommended“she'd an article my friend that I went to college with his Lizzy Goodman she wrote that book meet me in the bathroom”
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Myra Breckinridge
Discussed“so there's a book buying and forgetting the guy's name but it'll come to me but we're it was written in the 70s and he replaced the names of all the Supreme Court of all the curse words in his book he took the names of Supreme Court justices and put their names instead of curses so one Supreme Court”
Behind the Bastards
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British Concentration Camps
Discussed“This is a quote from the book British concentration camps, which was a major source for this uh podcast, and we'll have the link to all the other sources up on the website”
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The War with Spain
Discussed“I'm going to quote here from a book called the war with Spain by Charles Morris that's about the Cuban armies in this time that were fighting against Spain. The strength of the insurgents lay largely in their horses.”
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Adolf Hitler
Recommended“So, here's a quote from Adolf Hitler, the definitive biography by Pulitzer Prize winner John Tottland, which is a fantastic book if you're wanting to read about Hitler. Um, quote, "Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much”
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Queenpin
Discussed“Uh, here's how a book Queen Pens describes what Rivy did with the uh, two major crime secretaries. Uh, fancing himself an artist, he sent the secretar's pencil sketches of flowers and cute handdrawn Garfield the Cat sketches as opposed to actual flowers.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Poker Brat
Discussed“I want to go back to something I read in poker, Brad, as well about learning from your mistakes...”
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Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'Em and Reap
Recommended“You know, we had a New York Times bestseller called Read Them and Reap, which has some great stuff in there for people that don't have great reading abilities.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Timeless Way of Building
Discussed“but for me he wrote a book called a timeless way of building which I have not written down in a wrote a pattern language which was basically his idea was looking at all the old villages and towns and communities that were you know throughout the world that have been there for centuries”
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The Dream of a Common Language
Recommended“I think when I was younger and instead of this day I sometimes gift a book of poetry by Adrienne Rich called a dream of common language a dream of a common law common language”
Freakonomics Radio
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Scorecasting
Discussed“Moskowitz is co-author of a book called scorecasting which takes an empirical look at some of the standard decision making in sports”
a16z Podcast
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Countdown to Zero Day
Discussed“My friend Kim Zetter wrote a book on Stuxnet. The idea that something digital can actually affect something physical, like a nuclear factory, is insane to me.”
