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Books podcasts were talking about in January 2019
Literary discussions in January 2019 spanned various genres, from scientific explorations and historical mysteries to fiction and human endurance. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Brian Cox referenced Kip Thorne's Black Holes & Time Warps while discussing wormholes and gravitational waves. Joe Rogan also recommended Christopher Ruddy's The Strange Death of Vincent Foster during a conversation about political mysteries, and later promoted Andrew Cousins's fiction novel Yellowstone. Bari Weiss appeared on the same show to recommend Wesley Yang's essay collection The Souls of Yellow Folk. Meanwhile, The Book Review featured Sarah Lyall sharing her appreciation for André Aciman's novel Enigma Variations. Behind the Bastards saw Robert Evans reference Move Fast and Break Things by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss to examine the controversies surrounding Facebook. On Modern Wisdom, Chris Williamson strongly endorsed Alex Hutchinson's Endure, recommending the book to Rick Hanson and listeners for its insights into human performance limits. Together, these podcast segments showcased a strong interest in understanding complex systems, human limits, and compelling personal narratives across both fiction and non-fiction.
Monday Morning Podcast
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Gandhi
Discussed“I actually read a little bit about that about this book on our Winston Churchill and Gandhi because I wanted to read about some other history other than the same”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Plant Paradox
Discussed“this is based on on a book that was published I think about two years ago called the plant paradox by dr. Stephen Gundry and he talks about how lectins are these built in natural plant defense mechanisms”
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The Particle at the End of the Universe
Discussed“actually I think I'm Sean Carroll II I don't have you've had Sean Shareable dumps he he's said something the same I think in the book they wrote the big picture I think he has a similar argument”
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Black Holes & Time Warps
Recommended“and that there's a great this great book by Kip Thorne actually we just mentioned him he got the Nobel Prize last year for the gravitational waves and he wrote a brilliant blog links in the 80s called black holes and time warps way talks about the the answer is we don't fully know”
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Islamophilia: a Very Metropolitan Malady
Discussed“Do you know douglas maria's he's actually uh her who is it he's a he's a uh an intellectual from england who uh wrote about wrote the a book about immigrants in europe called the strange death I think it's called islam and the strange death of europe and he's basically talking about how people from these countries that have”
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The Bilderberg Group
Discussed“so you know what was the book i read um what's the place where they go to meet every year bohemian grove wilderberg group bilderberg group that was one of my favorite books the truth about the bilderberg group and um what goes on there and the powerful people that meet”
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The Strange Death of Vincent Foster
Recommended“do you ever read the strange death of Vince Foster I have not it's a great book”
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The Souls of Yellow Folk
Recommended“He wrote a book a book of essays called I think it's actually called the souls of yellow folk this year I'll connect you to him”
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Mark Owen
Discussed“is that the guy who's writing the book about all this stuff and talking about you know the man who shot bin Laden that guy is persona non grata in the community like you talked to the other seals they're like you don't you don't do that”
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No Easy Day
Discussed“is that the guy who's writing the book about all this stuff and talking about you know the man who shot bin Laden that guy is persona non grata in the community like you talked to the other seals they're like you don't you don't do that”
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Lone Survivor
Discussed“plus when you have someone who you know has a crazy story like marcus luttrell and it becomes an amazing movie”
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The Chronicles of Michael Danevitch of the Russian Secret Service by Dick Donovan, Author of 'The Man-hunter' ...
Discussed“I didn't even think about it until the dick marchenko books came out”
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The Bob Gates Story
Discussed“if if like Bob gates... you know Bob gates writes a book you know a former director of the agency and he's a brilliant guy great guy”
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Gothic Horror Works
Discussed“and then you get somebody else maybe Mike Morell writes a book”
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Yellowstone
Recommended“This is sort of a bump for a buddy of mine who's in Boise just wrote his first book... His name is Andrew Cousins... It's called a failed state”
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Unlimited Power
Discussed“because he did me some good when i was uh 21 years old i used to listen to his i think it was called unlimited power i think that was the name of the book”
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Sham
Discussed“and um there was a guy wrote a book called sham s-h-a-m self-help actualization movement and he was the head book guy for rodale press that publishes these self-help books um and so his takeaway on in this book was that the number one predictor of people who will buy self-help books are people who already bought self-help books and”
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels
Discussed“i mean i'm reading jonathan hates book the the two books that uh i've been reading recently but the other one is the cobbling of the american mind”
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Final Charade
Discussed“that's funny man did you ever read david lifton's novel or a book about it rather yeah best evidence best evidence”
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A Savage Order
Discussed“so i'm interviewing or dialoguing with uh rachel kleinfeld she has this a new book called a savage order and it's about failed states and what happens to them”
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Scale
Discussed“there's that book that physicist west jeff g-e-o-f-f west i think is his name wrote that book”
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers
Discussed“i just started this book called rule makers and rule breakers uh it's a by a woman who is a cultural psychologist”
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Cocaine Cowboys
Recommended“did you ever watch those documentaries on on cocaine the cocaine Cowboys da I've ever seen be so happy you gotta watch these why cocaine Cowboys 1 & 2 they are some of the greatest [ __ ] talking minutes and you're gonna realize why”
The Book Review
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Discussed“David Troyer will talk to us about his new book the heartbeat of Wounded Knee”
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Where Reasons End
Discussed“and so this is the sort of backstory to this to this novel which is called where reasons end”
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The Elephant in the Room
Discussed“and so he's written a memoir now called the elephant in the room one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America”
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Unquiet
Discussed“how does novelist Lyn Olman handle the story of her famous parents imore Bergman and Liv Olman in her autobiographical novel unquiet”
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How not to fall apart
Discussed“okay let's talk about how not to fall apart”
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Anxiety, the missing stage of grief
Discussed“okay a little bit more targeted in terms of what it's covering anxiety the missing stage of grief a revolutionary approach to understanding and healing the impact of loss”
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A Drinkable Feast
Discussed“we also have a drinkable Feast a cocktail companion to 1920s Paris by Philip green”
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The testing of Luther Albright
Discussed“so her first novel was published by Harper the testing of Luther Albright and it came out in 2005”
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Enigma variations
Recommended“so I'm actually going back to a book I read last year for the first time and loved and its Enigma Variations which is the newest novel by Andre aiman who's the author of call me by your name”
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Kintu
Discussed“let's start with um kinu by Jennifer nansubuga makumi so this is a a novel about Uganda”
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She Would Be King
Discussed“I want to move then to way to Moors she would be king because this also does something very interesting”
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The Barefoot Woman
Discussed“the Barefoot Woman by Scholastic kukaanga tell us a little bit about this Memoir”
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Duped
Discussed“Abby Ellen joins us now her new book is called duped double lives false identities and the con man I almost married”
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Conversations With Friends
Recommended“what I read this time around was conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney a novel that got a lot of attention last year”
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The Big Empty
Recommended“ok so I'm reading something called The Big Empty by Stan Jones and our crime columnist Marilyn stasio recommended this to me”
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The Bonjour effect
Recommended“the book is the bonjour effect the secret codes of French conversation revealed by Julie Barlo and Jean banoa nadoo”
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Mouthful of Birds
Discussed“I reviewed a book called mouthful of birds by samanta schweblin and Argentine writer and it's a book of 20 short stories that are all beautifully Godly insane and serialist and they belong to the same universe”
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Act Natural
Discussed“so the the book I reviewed this week is called act natural and it's by a writer named Jennifer trag and she calls it a cultural history in Misadventures and parenting”
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Making babies
Recommended“going back to tone the book I love and that I sort of recommend sort of like most indiscriminately is an enright's book making babies which I think Dwight reviewed it's so good”
The Rubin Report
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The Diversity Delusion
Discussed“everything we've been talking about is sort of exactly what the diversity delusion is all about”
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Why I Am a Liberal & Other Conservative Ideas
Discussed“I want to get the title exactly right because it's just perfect the title is why I'm a liberal and other conservative ideas”
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Ideas Have Consequences
Discussed“Let's go back to Richard Weber 1948 why did he write his seminal work ideas have consequences”
Behind the Bastards
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Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment
Discussed“So, in his book, Ku Klux Clan: Its Origin, Growth, and Disbandment, John Lester claims the clan spread almost by accident at first, essentially as an oldtimey meme. Quote, "During the fall and winter of 1866, the growth of the clan was rapid."”
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The Accidental Billionaires
Discussed“The first big book about Facebook's founding. The book that was the basis for the movie The Social Network was titled The Accidental Billionaires.”
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Move Fast and Fix Things
Recommended“I'd like to quote from a book titled, appropriately enough, move fast and break things, which is a really good book about all of these monsters, but not just Zuck.”
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We Break Things, Professionally
Recommended“I'd like to quote from a book titled, appropriately enough, move fast and break things, which is a really good book about all of these monsters, but not just Zuck.”
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Soulacoaster
Discussed“Writing later in his autobiography, Solar Coaster, Kelly, sorry, I had there was a little inadvertent pause. His autobio like a roller exactly of roller coaster of sol Yeah. Yeah. We will be hearing that title regularly and it will never not make me die just a little bit inside.”
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The Dark Side of Genius
Discussed“Donald Spoto, who wrote the biography The Dark Side of Genius, notes that it's impossible to confirm or deny Hitchcock's story about being locked in a cell for 5 minutes.”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Mental ABC's of Pitching
Discussed“Harvey Dorfman was kind of his right-hand man for mental conditioning, literally wrote the book, The ABCs of Pitching, The Mental Game of Baseball.”
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The Mental Game of Baseball
Discussed“Harvey Dorfman was kind of his right-hand man for mental conditioning, literally wrote the book, The ABCs of Pitching, The Mental Game of Baseball.”
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Ninety Percent Mental
Discussed“Tewksbury recently wrote a book called 90% Mental.”
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Dying for Growth
Discussed“I was one of the editors on a book that's entitled Dying for Growth, Global Inequality in the Health of the Poor, and it basically was a critique of the approach that many of the international financial institutions had taken to health.”
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Smart People Should Build Things
Discussed“In 2014, he published a book about this effort. It was called Smart People Should Build Things.”
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The Year of Living Danishly
Discussed“She set out to answer these questions in a book she called The Year of Living Danishly, Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country.”
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The Little Book of Hygge
Discussed“Viking is the author of an international bestseller called The Little Book of Hygge.”
Modern Wisdom
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Hardwiring Happiness
Discussed“so many listeners will probably know you for hardwiring happiness as a New York Times bestseller”
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Five Ways to Know Yourself
Discussed“I'm currently reading five ways to know yourself by Shinzon Jung”
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Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Recommended“I recently did a podcast with Alex Hutchinson who wrote a book called endure if you haven't read it yet I would HIGHLY advise getting out”
ChooseFI
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Millionaire Women Next Door
Discussed“so Rocky in one of our early conversations you mentioned to me that you are The prototypical Millionaire Next Door and I'm a huge fan of the late Dr Thomas Stanley who wrote the book The Millionaire Next Door”
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Stop Stealing Dreams
Recommended“my favorite article is stop stealing dreams it's by Seth goat”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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As Many Reps as Possible
Discussed“speaking of decisions you have this quote from the book that goes something like if you want something bad enough you can control the direction of your life with with decisions focus on the very next decision”
a16z Podcast
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Anatomy of the Spirit
Discussed“super soul Sunday I was asking Carolyn mace what I ask everybody what's your definition of god and Carolyn Mays who wrote the anatomy of spirit said God is law”
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Unicorn
Discussed“I found an absolutely brilliant poem by the British writer Angela Carter the old day called unicorn she wrote in 1965 it's really seedy and absolutely brilliant for any time I hear the word unicorn I'm gonna give this poem to the tech gazillionaire sitting in front of me and just say stop it”
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Charlie Munger
Discussed“and and how does that play into the new book that you've recently written about Charlie Munger as the complete investor”
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The End of Money
Discussed“so I mean David woman this amazing writer who wrote a whole book about the end of cash and you know he and I talked about this regularly and I'm like you know I'm like that's crazy”
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Startup Communities
Discussed“we so much used the book of Brad Feld which is called the sort of communities we were reading it almost used as a Bible on how to to to build one here in Tehran”
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Startup Rising
Discussed“so it's interesting to me that the companies that you've mentioned have effectively been there's a word I hate we use in America called copycats and what I like to use an effect of my book I call them improvisers”
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Discussed“I read a blog post it's called what does Google need in mobile and the analogy that I used is this book written by French academic called Pierre Bay are just a sort of slightly facetious title of how to talk about books you haven't read”
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The Age of Cryptocurrency
Discussed“and we talked to a lot of people that we interviewed for the book went through it too and I realized that it's almost kind of like the kubler-ross model the five stages of grief so we wrote about it in the beginning of the book”
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Startup Boards
Discussed“I read a book called startup boards of which Scott's quoted infrequently. And he talks about the importance of getting an independent director on early as you can”
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Mindstorms
Discussed“the guy who wrote logo has his book called Mindstorms we talks about what what kids learned when they did that was breaking a bigger problem into many smaller problems”
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Faster, Higher, Stronger
Discussed“the premise of the books are that there's been massive improvement in athletic performance due to our better understanding our body and how they can be trained as best I can tell”
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Bitcoin, a Peer-to-peer Electronic Cash System
Recommended“and you actually if you read it's always worth reading like the the original Bitcoin paper there's a lot of discussion around Bitcoin but the original paper is actually lost”
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Enchanted Objects
Recommended“there's a to good but there's two interesting books in this I'd recommend there's a book I believe the title is enchanted objects they came out and it's a guy who kind of goes through this me his kind of argument”
