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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2019
Podcasts throughout April 2019 highlighted notable contemporary fiction, personal finance, psychology, and memoirs. The Book Review featured several prominent discussions, starting with Greg Cowles recommending Miriam Toews's novel Women Talking. Pamela Paul also spoke on the program about finishing Janny Scott's memoir and biography, The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father, while Dwight Garner reviewed Sally Rooney's popular novel, Normal People. On Freakonomics Radio, Stephen Dubner mentioned Alexandra Horowitz's canine-focused works, including Being a Dog, while introducing her to the audience. Financial and psychological wellness themes emerged on other shows. Chris Hutchins appeared on Modern Wisdom to recommend Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton's Happy Money during the resource roundup to evaluate ways spending habits impact happiness. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, Hal Elrod cited Bruce H. Lipton's The Biology of Belief while discussing the mind-body connection, and also referenced John C. Maxwell's Failing Forward to explain the psychological concept of acting one's way into a feeling. Additionally, Joe Rogan wrapped up an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience by promoting Russell Brand's recently released book, Mentors.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Buddha's Brain
Discussed“yeah Brad I've come back and started rereading pieces of Buddhist brain and it's interesting how much it really is Buddhist now”
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Wise Guy
Discussed“I know that you're really big on when you make it big provide opportunities to other people to come up that's something that you talked a lot about in the book”
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The Biology of Belief
Recommended“I'm even reading up on like online on the mind-body connection and how our thoughts do affect our biology right Bruce Lipton wrote a great book the biology of me don't get me started”
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Failing Forward
Recommended“John Maxwell taught that in his book failing forward it's called act your way into feeling”
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Still Life
Discussed“It's from a Emily man wrote a play called still life and it's a part where Mark he's talking to the audience just stops and looks at the audience and has a whole monologue but it's not he breaks the fourth wall”
Pod Save America
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A Mindful Nation
Discussed“you wrote a book long before his presidential campaign it's not it's very different than all these other books and it's about mindfulness which I think would catch a lot of people by surprise who've listened to this interview and toured look at your bio”
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Finding My Voice
Discussed“my conversation with our friend and former senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett about her new book finding my voice”
The Book Review
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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
Discussed“Henry Lewis Gates will join us to talk about two of his new books Stony the road and dark sky Rising”
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The Uninhabitable Earth
Discussed“David Wallace wells will be here to discuss his bestselling book the uninhabitable Earth”
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The new Negro
Discussed“and then there are others the new negro a life of Alan lock by Jeffrey Stewart”
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The carrying
Discussed“this week Italy moan author most recently of the collection the carrying reads Muriel riser's waiting for”
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Women Talking
Recommended“I'm reading a novel called women talking by Miriam Taves”
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The Beneficiary
Recommended“so I just finished this book called the beneficiary Fortune Misfortune and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott”
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Save Me the Plums
Discussed“best-selling author Ruth richel joins us to talk about her latest book save me the plums”
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Charged
Discussed“my colleague Emily basilon will be here to talk about charged the New Movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration”
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Sticks and Stones
Discussed“Your first book was Sticks and Stones defeating the culture of bullying and rediscovering the power of character and empathy”
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The Mister
Discussed“it's eel James's new romance which is called the mister and this is her first work of original fiction since 50 Shades of Gray which had an incredible impact on the public in Industry”
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Normal People
Recommended“and now she has a new novel called normal people and if you haven't read her she's just a treat”
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The House of the Pain of Others
Recommended“Dwight you reviewed uh Sally R's new novel it's called normal people Jen Robert Caro's new book called working and parl lean Herbert's book The House of the pain of others”
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Midnight in Chernobyl
Discussed“Adam higen Botham will be here to talk about his new book midnight in Chernobyl the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster”
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Coders
Discussed“Nelly bus will be here to talk about Clive Thompson's new book coders”
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Voices from Chernobyl
Discussed“and there's Sana alexovich whose voice is from Chernobyl which is this sort of isn't a narrative book but as a kind of you know hallucinatory sense of what it was like for these individuals”
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Lost and Wanted
Discussed“I've never read any books by n freudenberger have you nor have I”
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Murder by the Book
Discussed“so I'm reading a book called Murder By the book by Claire Harmon”
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Written Lives
Discussed“it's called written lives”
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The Unwinding of the Miracle
Discussed“I think Tina you discussed the unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip Williams”
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Nudist on the Late Shift
Recommended“I'd say I mean I'm a sucker for nudist on The Late Shift I loved that one po Bronson”
Freakonomics Radio
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Being a Dog
Recommended“Horowitz has written a couple of fascinating books inside of a dog and being a dog.”
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Spotify Teardown
Recommended“If you want to learn more about Spotify including how a team of Swedish social scientists tried to reverse engineer it to see how the platform really works check out a new book called Spotify Teardown Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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A Vision Quest
Discussed“everybody's seen that movie vision quest right”
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History Begins at Sumer
Discussed“and indeed i have a i have a book in my my library called history begins at sumer and it's by samuel noah cramer a very renowned archaeologist and it's a good book actually”
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Discussed“and which is one of the reasons i'm so fascinated by rick strassmann's work you you presented his film dmt the spirit molecule”
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Mentors
Recommended“and uh your book mentors it's out now”
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Dwyane
Discussed“Dwyane Wade wrote a book focused on being a father his road to becoming a better father what he went through with his kids mother he developed a relationship than a bond with his sons like nobody else”
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The war on normal people
Discussed“so there's there's two problems that come up there and this is where andrew's book is interesting because problem number one is that the people will be poor”
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Stand-Up Comedy
Discussed“it was this chick who wrote all these books... Judy Brown... Judy Carter... she wrote these books and how did you stand up”
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How to be a Stand-up Comic
Discussed“There was a couple books written by comics... like Belzer. Richard Belzer wrote a book on how to do stand-up”
StarTalk Radio
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The Sports Gene
Discussed“There's this book the sports gene, that talks about sort of the exceptional athletic ability, that we don't really think about, when we see Olympic athletes. They're at a whole different physiological level, than we even would think about.”
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Discussed“So Janna, you're an expert on the large scale universe, on black holes, your recent book was Black Hole Blues, was that? - Yeah. You know you've said it better than anyone ever. I once got you to say the whole title which you might not remember was Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space”
The Rubin Report
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Nationalism
Discussed“by the time you get to the 1960s you get Elie Kaduri is a famous Pro imperialist scholar who wrote a book called nationalism which is kind of an anti nationalist manifesto that blames nationalism for both world wars and and says it's on it's unworkable”
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Blueprint
Discussed“so it's called blueprint the evolutionary origins of a good society so let's start with the tag there”
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Gay Girl, Good God
Recommended“it's a ways but she wrote a good book now she probably wouldn't say that Oh God makes people straight but it's called gay girl good God's by Jackie Hill Perri”
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Irresistible
Recommended“so I went down all these science holes and now I'm looking at reading this book irresistible which is all about screen addiction and all the studies and it's brilliant”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Beastie Boys Book
Discussed“I downloaded that album where they took that sample from it's such a killer album the only reason why I know about is because I'm reading the The Beastie Boys book that book you did”
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Fancy Nancy
Critiqued“at some point because one of the guys on Special Forces was also had a kid around my age we both started going off on that show Fancy Nancy and and what an [ __ ] she is and how we both are watching her going like this I don't want my daughter watching this [ __ ]”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Dropping ashes on the Buddha
Discussed“Well, I suppose it was removed from the audio, but nonetheless, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, Mhm. which is is a book by an author whose name I still don't know how to pronounce properly. Seung Sahn. Seung Sahn. A Korean Zen monk that you have gifted to many many many many people.”
Modern Wisdom
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Happy Money
Recommended“I will say take a look at the book happy money which is kind of like a psychological evaluation of ways to spend money to actually increase your happiness”
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The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k
Discussed“I'm reading the life-changing art of not giving a [ __ ]”
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Good to Go
Discussed“okay recently some of the guests will know the spot on the back of your book that mr. Alex Hutchinson the the man behind injure is a big proponent a big big supporter of your book and obviously what he was talking about was a lot of the things to do within training what's happening while you train and the”
Behind the Bastards
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Hurrah For The Blackshirts!
Discussed“I found a great Slate article by Martin Pew, author of Harrah for the Black Shirts, a book about fascism in Britain between the wars. Quote, "The movement was highly opportunistic in that it exploited issues which had local relevance”
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Blackshirt
Discussed“Their wealth had been built up in the 16th century by his ancestor Nicholas Mosley who the book Blackshirt describes as quote one of the swindling sheep farmers who at the time were expropriating the common lands of the English people.”
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Tiger
Discussed“John Masters in Bugle and Tiger created the legend that Mosley, detested by his brother, Officer Cadets, was thrown out of a window. In fact, in seeking recruits for retaliatory action, he slipped on a ledge and fell, slightly injuring a leg.”
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Fascism
Discussed“He wrote a book a few years later titled Fascism 100 questions asked and answered that explained why he decided to use the same word as the Germans and Italians rather than invent a new term that might have been more palatable to English ears.”
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The Greater Britain
Discussed“So, so after establishing the British Union of Fascists, Mosley outright or right away published a book called The Greater Britain, which he hoped would polish the bad reputation fascism had gotten over all those deaths from the uh Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Guaica and all the people that the Nazis had put in concentration camps, all”
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The Doctrine of Fascism
Discussed“This was basically him cribbing a concept from an essay by Ben Bonito Mussolini, the doctrine of fascism, which said this quote, "If the 19th century was the century of the individual, liberalism implies individualism. We are free to believe that this is the collective century and therefore the century of the state."”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Breaking Bad
Discussed“breaking bad is out of New Mexico there two guys in a trailer cooking basically a food truck that [__] ran off theate that's a madeup show but no one questioned it no one's like that that ain't happening out there everybody's like yeah that's what happens out there”
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Grain Brain
Discussed“so here today we have a beautiful man and he's the author of the book grain brain”
ChooseFI
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The Beach
Discussed“I was reading a lot of travel books there was a book called the beach by Alex Garland about you know in the movie Leonardo DiCaprio goes to goes to Thailand and it's just this beautiful place”
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Danziger's Travels
Discussed“and you know through that and some other books another one called danziger's Travels by Nick danziger's really cool travel story through those books I realized that Europe was not the only place to go”
