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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2019
During June 2019, podcasts featured a diverse range of literary and cinematic works across multiple shows. On The Book Review, John Williams discussed reading Joyce Johnson's memoir Minor Characters for a project, Lauren Christensen talked about reading Robert A. Caro's massive biography The Path To Power, and Greg Cowles introduced Richard McGuire's graphic novel Here. Non-fiction and historical perspectives also gained attention elsewhere. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Hotep Jesus referenced Ivan Van Sertima's They Came Before Columbus to support his arguments about early civilizations, while Will Harris described Charles Gaines, George Butler, and William M. Gaines's documentary Pumping Iron as his all-time favorite and a key inspiration. Additionally, Chip Conley recommended Mark Coleman's Awake in the Wild on The Tim Ferriss Show, one of the hosts on Pod Save America mentioned the paperback release of Dan Pfeiffer's Yes We (Still) Can, and Bill Burr recommended the film adaptation of There Will Be Blood on Monday Morning Podcast.
The Book Review
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The Devil's Highway
Discussed“hes written a number of books his most famous being the 2004 non-fiction book The Devils Highway”
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Dangerous doses
Discussed“she is an investigative journalist the author previously of the book dangerous doses a true story of cops counterfeits”
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Minor characters
Recommended“and this is one of those its called minor characters by Joyce Johnson and Johnson was 21 years old”
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The Path To Power
Recommended“Im about 400 pages into the more than 3000 in counting pages that robert Carol has written about Lyndon Johnson”
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Here
Recommended“Im reading a graphic novel called here by the artist Richard Maguire”
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Hasselblad & the Moon Landing
Discussed“what's interesting is you started off your review actually talking about the visual specifically and about a book called Hasselblad and the moon landing by Deborah Ireland which looks at the photographs”
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American Moonshot
Discussed“one of the kinds of objections that maybe maybe is least surprising when you think about it sto think about for just a minute is the civil rights movement and that's covered in the in the Douglas Brinkley Book American moonshot John F Kennedy and the Great Space Race”
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The Human Condition
Discussed“this is you know Han in The Human Condition which she writes right after Sputnik in in 1958 talks about this transition after Sputnik”
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The Plaza : The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Discussed“Julie satow is here in the studio to talk about her new book The Plaza The Secret Life of America's most famous hotel”
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Eloise
Discussed“we all know Eloise for example and and K Thompson's great picture book”
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Scratch
Discussed“I'm reading this book called scratch writers money and the Art of making a living by Mula Martin and it combines two of my favorite topics money and writing”
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Digital Renaissance
Discussed“it's called digital Renaissance what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture by Joel Wald Fogle and he is a professor at Minnesota's Carlson School of Management”
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Underland
Discussed“Robert McFarland will be here to talk about his new book underland”
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Disappearing Earth
Discussed“Julia Phillips will be here to talk about her debut novel disappearing Earth”
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The Lost Words
Discussed“his previous books include mountains of the Mind the wild places the old ways and one that I particularly want to talk about a few more but one called The Lost words a children's book”
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Horizon
Discussed“and I think here of big books like Barry Lopez's Horizon Richard PO is the over story which actually together kind of make a a trip tich here you have the overstory The Horizon and and the underland”
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Let Me Not Be Mad
Discussed“but I also reviewed this week a book by AK Benjamin called let me be not mad and I actually think I want to talk about that one just because it's”
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Reckoning
Discussed“okay so this week I I reviewed a book that I had I took some issues with and it's called Reckoning and it's by a lawyer and legal scholar and philosopher named Linda hman”
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The Capital
Recommended“Pamela I I reviewed this a novel from a Austrian writer named Robert Manas and the novel has been translated from the German it's called the capital with two A's and U”
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No Visible Bruises
Discussed“Rachel Lise Snyder will be here to talk about her new book no visible bruises”
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The Queen
Discussed“Josh LaVine joins us to talk about his new book The Queen”
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Mostly Dead Things
Discussed“I'm reading a book called mostly dead things it's a debut novel by Kristen Arnett and our critic parl seagel absolutely raved about this book in her Daily Review a couple of weeks ago”
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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
Discussed“so on a very different note I'm reading hot cold heavy light which is a collection of a 100 columns and two profiles are included by Peter sheld doall currently the art critic for the New Yorker”
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Mitz
Recommended“one of the reasons I'm reading the book I am which is called myths the marma set of bloomsberry is it's by Nunes and because I enjoyed the friends so much when this came across my desk it really popped out for that reason”
Monday Morning Podcast
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There Will Be Blood!
Recommended“tough it out just watch there will be blood”
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They Call Me Assassin
Discussed“if you're going to read a book go back and read Jack Tatum's they call me assassin I've already read that”
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Snake
Discussed“oh it's just called snake and you kidding me that's all it's called snake”
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Comedy Sex God
Recommended“it was actually it turned out through who's Pete Holmes his book comedy God which I immediately thought was funny I'm like are is he just doing this thing where he's like overly bragging doing like a run burgundy thing and it was actually a lot of look for I was skimming reading was a lot of it was about”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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They Came Before Columbus
Recommended“John Henry Clark is the author you should study John Henry Clark has a book they come before Columbus”
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Dreamcatcher
Discussed“what was the other one where the dudes were in the woods and some alien crawled inside that guy's [ __ ] and killed him which one was that book yeah ... i just never heard of it it's called dream catcher dream catcher that's it yeah”
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Punisher War Journal By Carl Potts & Jim Lee
Discussed“That's always like the appeal of a show like the punisher like the comic book they ever did”
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Hoop Dreams
Discussed“did you ever hear of a documentary called hoop dreams yes it was uh that was my high school life like they were older than me but when i was in high school that film came out that fascinated me and i was like undocumented documenting somebody for five years followed a life i was obsessed”
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Pumping iron
Recommended“and then my favorite documentary of all time is pumping iron oh of course so when i saw that in college i was like i want to shoot documentaries so i was always obsessed with documentaries”
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Striking Thoughts
Discussed“it's like bruce lee right striking thoughts philosophy plus martial arts”
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Grant Hancock
Discussed“because the first european explorers when they went to the amazon according to grant hancock in his book which is called america before um the first european explorers when they came to the amazon they were like oh my god this is incredible”
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Holographic Universe
Discussed“i'd like to see that i tried reading this book the holographic universe but i didn't get into it”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Then It Fell Apart
Discussed“and I'm always pardon me I'm always a little surprised when I have somebody like like Moby wrote a book and I read it and I went there's no way he wrote this there's words in here I'm googling what they mean DJ didn't write this book”
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Daodejing
Discussed“and Lee just introduced me it gave me books to read the daodejing my Lao Tzu kirkegaard”
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"Captains Courageous"
Discussed“and then the book that I was reading when I got what reading was all about was about third grade fourth grade Captains Courageous rudyard kipling”
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The Start-up of You
Discussed“so this is the first book we'll start up you second book is the Alliance”
Pod Save America
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Yes We (Still) Can
Recommended“Dan mentioned last pot at the paperback version of his book Yes We Still Can is out and available”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Rusch to Glory
Discussed“I actually went to his kennel hasn't visited and met the dogs and I'm reading his book now because it's just such an interesting historic one the his history of that trail is intriguing to me”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Business Rules of Thumb
Discussed“And we did and we created a book called Business Rules of thumb and it came out long long long time ago.”
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Awake in the Wild
Recommended“2 years ago I was in Loreto Bay in Baja kayaking with a guy named Mark Coleman who wrote a book called Awaken the Wild, beautiful book.”
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Joy on demand
Recommended“There's also a really fascinating guy named Chade-Meng Tan who wrote a book called Joy on Demand that that gets into this.”
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Search inside yourself
Recommended“And Search Inside Yourself, too. Uh which became the most popular employee class at Google at one point or on a waiting list of like 6 to 12 months or something like that.”
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The 100-Year Life
Recommended“there's a book called The 100-Year Life. 100-Year Life, written by a couple Brits and it it sort of says, 'Imagine the future where the average person lives to 100.'”
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The Happiness Curve
Recommended“The Happiness Curve, which we talked about earlier. Um it's a book the the U curve of happiness is what we call it, but the name of the book is by Jonathan Rauch, is called The Happiness Curve. That's become a favorite to gift.”
The Rubin Report
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Anna Karenina
Discussed“for example in Anna Karenina at the end of the book just before she commits suicide uh the world the tall story describes how she sees the world just before how she commits suicide”
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Nausea
Discussed“and that Norse is actually a novel by example satra where he describes that state so that's exactly how it is”
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The Book of Ecclesiastes
Recommended“if you want to read about that state I recommend in the Old Testament there is the Book of Ecclesiastes which starts with a famous phrase as in the old translation vanity of vanities all is Vanity”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Speaker for the Dead
Discussed“If you've read Orson Scott Card Ender's Game speaker for the dead you know it could just be like a little voice in your earring terrible title”
Behind the Bastards
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Charlatan
Discussed“According to the book charlatan, his offerings included, quote, French lessons, astrologers, gospel quartets, the tell me a story lady, and Hawaiian songs of farewell, country music, too.”
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Sunshine
Discussed“Dr. Brinkley collected a hundred different testimonials testimonials in into a book called Shadows and Sunshine and published it in an effort to fight back against what he claimed was the AMA's dangerous misinformation.”
StarTalk Radio
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Discussed“I read this book called learning to die in the Anthropocene which is by this guy Roy Scranton who who is very smart he and I learned the word Anthropocene from him I'm sure you guys knew it already”
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Physicians' Desk Reference
Discussed“Have you ever seen the Physicians' Desk Reference, the PDR? - No, I have not. - It's a zillion pages and it is every single medicine prescribable in the world, or at least in the West.”
Modern Wisdom
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Off the Clock
Recommended“I've absolutely loved off the clock which is your most recent book and I've pounded through it over the last couple of weeks”
ChooseFI
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Enough
Discussed“and he really in fact he's got a book called enough and if you can figure out what enough is and it turns out that the return of of of The Benchmark or these indexes is going to represent enough”
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Your Money and Your Brain
Recommended“I think if Jason zweig's book your money and your brain was around I would absolutely call that required reading as a young investor because it does address the psychological end of this process and and as an advisor I found that most people around money topics are a little bit nuts and that book explains why we are nuts”
