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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2018
During September 2018, several podcasts explored books spanning the movie business, relationships, personal development, and travel culture. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, Todd Garner spoke about Ben Fritz's book titled The Big Picture, sharing that he loved the work for its insights into the film industry. Relationships and human evolution were central topics on The Joe Rogan Experience, where Geoffrey Miller recommended Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy's The Ethical Slut as a foundational guide for polyamorous relationships, alongside discussions of other evolutionary perspectives. Meanwhile, Modern Wisdom featured Johnny recommending Derren Brown's book Happy during a conversation about goal-setting and happiness, while Chris Williamson pointed listeners toward Ari Meisel's Less Doing, More Living while talking about workload management and outsourcing. On ChooseFI, Mrs. Wow highlighted the value of Lonely Planet guidebooks, specifically mentioning the Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook as a practical resource for researching travel destinations, history, and local culture. On The Book Review, Parul Sehgal discussed reviewing Deborah Eisenberg's collection Your Duck Is My Duck, expressing enthusiasm for the new release. These diverse conversations reflected a shared interest in practical life guides, cultural exploration, and contemporary storytelling across various audio platforms.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Big Picture
Recommended“I loved his book He wrote a book called the big picture which is great about the movie business”
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Coming apart
Discussed“This is the most important thing to understand how America is coming apart by social class His book is called coming apart”
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The Rise of Victimhood Culture
Recommended“there's a great book on victimhood culture by Manning and Campbell are the authors”
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Your Subconscious Brain Can Change Your Life
Discussed“he's done over a hundred thousand brain scans and and he wrote a famous book called change your brain change your life”
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Start with Why
Recommended“write and start with Y by simon Sinek”
The Book Review
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Crudo
Discussed“Olivia Lang the great English writer I mean she's written three books of non-fiction and now she's out with her first novel called Crudo and you know we've all I think had Crudo in restaurants”
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Your duck is my duck
Recommended“I had a very good week I reviewed the new Deborah Eisenberg it's a book called your duck is my duck”
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Underbug
Discussed“she joins us to talk about her new book underbug”
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Washington Black
Discussed“ASA Duan joins us now from British Columbia her new book is called Washington black”
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Dreaming of Elsewhere
Discussed“in between the novel half blood blues and this novel you did write your first non-fiction book dreaming of Elsewhere observations at home”
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The best American essays of the century
Discussed“so we've got best American essays and best American short stories”
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Fifty Best American Short Stories
Discussed“so we've got best American essays and best American short stories”
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The best American nonrequired reading, 2003
Discussed“initiated this best American non-required reading and ology every year which is still assembled with a guest editor but a panel of high school students going through and picking kind of the stuff that spoke to them over the previous year”
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On Chesil Beach
Recommended“I thought that it it reminded me a little bit of the um Ian mcan's um chessel Beach which is you know just an argument between two people who really you know like each other”
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Faithful Place
Recommended“whatever I missed this book it's called faithful place and it's not a standalone”
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Shyness and Dignity
Recommended“it's 150 Pages exactly called shyness and dignity by the Norwegian writer dog Sola s o l St a d”
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The language of kindness
Recommended“it's called the language of kindness and she was a nurse for 20 years before she became a full-time writer”
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Social creature
Critiqued“then I tried a third Thriller social creature which had gotten positive reviews including in the times and I it was one of two books that I actually put down”
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One Person, No Vote
Discussed“in a review of another book that comes out this week by Carol Anderson one person no vote the figure was cited that voting by African-Americans decreased 7% in the 2016 election”
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Full disclosure
Discussed“St Martin's press announced this week that they have a memoir by her the title is full disclosure”
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The Fiend
Recommended“I just finished one called the fiend which is about set in a very small town in California where a young man who served some prison time for being a pedophile has come back to town and he's living with his brother”
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How like an angel
Recommended“I read an incredible one called how like an angel I believe also written in the 1950s which was about a doomsday cult like I had no okay I'm naive”
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The Time of the Doves
Recommended“I came back and one of the things I read was a novel called the time of the doves by a Catalan writer named and I think I'm pronouncing this right marce rudar which is r o d o r d a”
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Death in Spring
Recommended“she wrote a novel called death in Spring that I liked a lot I just bought a copy of that also very kind of psychologically immersive”
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Lake Success
Discussed“Andrew Ross sarin and David enrich will be here to talk about Gary Stein's Lake Success Tom Wolf's bonfire the vanities and more”
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The Spider Network
Discussed“David enrich the finance editor of the times as well as the author most recently of his first book The Spider Network about the liore Scandal”
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Little failure
Discussed“he also wrote a fantastic Memoir most recently little failure”
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CoDex 1962
Discussed“I reviewed a book by the Icelandic writer shown the book is called codex 1962 and as I said the review it feels like this book was designed to drive me crazy it has everything I hate”
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When Genius Failed
Recommended“the other the one I would add to that is Roger lonstein when genius failed which is about the collapse of long-term Capital Management and is just a work of the brilliant narrative non-fiction”
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The Informant
Recommended“the informant by Kurt ien Walt mhm put the movie aside I didn't love the movie but the book is outrageous”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Complete Books of Enoch: All Three: New Translation with Extensive Commentary
Discussed“I mean it's that that book I gave you the complete book of ketones by dr. Mary”
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Glow15
Discussed“Naomi would tell wrote a book about this and it just it's like a New York Times and that really covers a science”
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The Complete Book of Ketones
Discussed“I mean it's that that book I gave you the complete book of ketones by dr. Mary”
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King corn
Discussed“if you watch there's a great documentary King corn”
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The Technology of Orgasm
Discussed“okay so there was a book back in 99 called I think the technology of orgasm that made the claim that vibrators were first invented in the Victorian era the late 1800s to help doctors bring their female patients to orgasm to cure quote hysteria”
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The Ethical Slut, Third Edition
Recommended“I mean the ethical slot is a good kind of... it is the ethical [ __ ]... dossie Easton and Janet Hardy”
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The Ethical Slut
Recommended“and I think like people should read sex at dawn by Christopher Ryan, but that shouldn't be the final word about you know human evolution and polyamory. What's another good book on I mean the ethical slot is a good kind of”
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Brazil
Discussed“Did you read Donna Brazil's book I didn't read the whole book I heard I got a excerpt excerpts from it and of it I was shocked that they conspired to have Hillary win the primaries I was more shocked that more people weren't outraged yeah”
Behind the Bastards
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Blackwater
Discussed“So now I'm going to read a fun related excerpt from Jeremy Scill's book Blackwater. In 2006, nearly two years after the Army investigators concluded their report, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a report of its own.”
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The Collaboration
Discussed“So, I'm going to read a quote from the collaboration which talking about sort of how the Nazis propaganda movies were not particularly successful in Nazi Germany.”
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Taking Fame to Market
Discussed“Um and this is from the textbook taking fame to market. So this will give you an idea of kind of what some people in the film industry sort of on Edison's side of things were horrified of when they looked into a movie theater.”
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The East India Company and the Natural World
Discussed“I ran into a college textbook called the East India Company and the Natural World. It had a whole chapter on the famine and thanks to the bountiful goddess of capitalism, Springer allowed me to buy just that chapter for $30.”
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Return of a King
Discussed“Uh, according to the wonderful book Return of a King, by 1796, quote, "The company was expanding rapidly out from its coastal factories to conquer much of the interior. Well's Indian campaigns would ultimately annex more territory than all of Napoleon's conquests in Europe."”
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The honorable company
Discussed“So according to a book called The Honorable Company, which is about the British East India Company.”
Pod Save America
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Big Game
Discussed“you'll hear the interview that Dan and loved it did with New York Times's mark Leibovich talk about politics Paul Ryan and Leibovich his new book about the NFL called big game today”
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Someone Like Me
Discussed“On the pod today, I am joined by Julissa Arce, who is the author of a brand new book, Someone Like Me, How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream.”
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My (Underground) American Dream
Discussed“So someone like me is a young adult adaptation of your bestselling memoir, My Underground American Dream.”
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We Fed an Island
Recommended“In Jose's new book, We Fed an Island, it's about the relief work he did in the months after the storm,”
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Every Day Is Extra
Discussed“secretary Kerry a new book out called every day is extra we talked to him about the book”
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Crazy from the Heat
Discussed“but really and David Lee Roth talked about this in his book but really they would put that in the rider in order to make sure that the entire rider was read because they were on a tour with airplane a lot of tertiary markets and they were doing rooms where they want to assure that all of their stage”
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Fear: Trump in the White House
Discussed“bob woodward is that with the new book all fear and it's about the Trump administration ... you know they had a story this morning about the book with all kinds of excerpts ... the book is very bad for Donald Trump”
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On the Other Side of Freedom
Recommended“the host of positive the people DeRay McKesson now officially has a book out on the shelves and in your online marketplaces it's called on the other side of freedom the case for hope it dropped Tuesday”
Modern Wisdom
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YES, But... .
Discussed“You said best Martin Burke on depression He's like some people say I've got so much washing to do tomorrow it's like no you don't There is a large pile of washing”
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Death by Mistress
Recommended“It's another book recommendation and it is happy by Darren brown”
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Happy
Recommended“and it is happy by Darren brown this is the one where Reese lights the secret by Rhonda burnin”
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Less Doing, More Living
Recommended“but like if you're in if you feel like you're doing more than you can looking at re Meisels book called less doing”
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Light of the Stars
Discussed“I recently did a podcast with Adam Frank who wrote a book and recently did published a paper on exactly that what the likelihood is of us being alone in the universe”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Bridges of Madison County
Discussed“and that was the Bridges of Madison County ... and that's a Clint Eastwood's and what else is her name Marilyn the street and Marilyn's Streep is probably one of the top 70 or 80 actresses you know a man it's amazing because she has she has a family and it's just regular life and then this man comes through”
ChooseFI
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Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook
Recommended“one of the things that I get a lot of value out of is purchasing a Lonely Planet book to the country or the city that we are going to and I find it useful just to kind of give me some be able to research where we're going read about the history read about the culture”
The Rubin Report
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The Diversity Myth
Discussed“and I think there's a direct connection to the diversity myth which we'll also talk about what you wrote you know twenty years there”
a16z Podcast
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Farsighted
Discussed“actually the book partially starts with the great excerpt in in Charles Darwin's Diaries where he's trying to decide whether to get married”
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Mirror Worlds
Discussed“so the first is it actually gets back to that classic book that David Guillermo wrote in theme post after that is one of my dear favorite people you know I wrote I read that book when I was I guess in just in grad school”
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The Hedgehog and the Fox
Discussed“and what do you found with those people he described them in the classic Fox versus Hedgehog which is you know that Hedgehog knows one big thing has one big ideology one big explanation for the world of Fox”
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Wonderland
Discussed“I used to give the tours at Xerox PARC for all the visitors and actually one of the big talking points was when we had like these big muckety-mucks coming through was how like there'd be a material science expert”
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My Father's Business
Discussed“I love the way you describe his perception of his third grade education in the book you said it turned him into a great observer and a great student for the rest of his life basically he never stopped learning from anybody else”
Freakonomics Radio
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Karl Marx, Frederick Engels : Collected Works. Vol. 3
Discussed“One thing that's fascinating about Marx is that he's known as a critic of capitalism. But actually, when you read Capital, Volume 1, 2, and 3, you end up really admiring and appreciating the dynamic aspect of capitalism, which is technological change.”
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Entrepreneurial State
Discussed“Consider the titles of her books. The first was called The Entrepreneurial State. Those two words, entrepreneurial and state, typically are not used together.”
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Value of Everything
Discussed“Mazzucato's latest book is called The Value of Everything, Making and Taking in the Global Economy. When it comes to the relationship between government and economic growth, Mazzucato knows how the popular narrative goes.”
