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Books podcasts were talking about in July 2019
In July 2019, podcast discussions turned toward classic literature, historical analyses, and influential psychological works. Whitney Cummings appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and brought up Ernest Becker's writings while discussing terror management theory. Later in the month, the same show featured Dr. Cornel West, who recommended several works by Anton Chekhov, including the plays Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard, as well as the short story A Classical Student. Joe Rogan in turn praised Cornel West's own book Race Matters for its analysis of superficial pursuits. Additionally, Cornel West highlighted C. Vann Woodward's historical work The Strange Career of Jim Crow, noting its significance to the civil rights movement. In another episode on Behind the Bastards, Robert Evans recommended Larry Tye's biographical work The Father of Spin to listeners interested in learning more about Edward Bernays. Across these programs, speakers emphasized enduring literary classics, foundational historical texts, and works offering deep psychological or sociological insights, giving audiences a rich collection of thought-provoking recommendations.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Ernest Becker Reader
Recommended“there's a great book called the worm and the whole solomon something solomon i read this book”
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Clouds
Discussed“but it was aristophanes at least in the west who initiated this with the clouds and and frogs and so on”
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Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
Discussed“that's the question thomas more was wrestling with in the tower of london before he was executed in his dialogues on tribulation”
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Moral Man and Immoral Society
Discussed“ryan holnieber the greatest christian thinker of the 20th century democratic socialist moral man and moral society”
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Love and Theft
Discussed“and you see what was going on with blackface where eric lott and others have talked about the love and theft”
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Worstward Ho
Discussed“you know the great samuel beckett number great another great comic writer try again fail again fail better that's the story of our lives”
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An appeal in favour of that class of Americans called Africans
Discussed“lydia maria child she wrote a book in 1834 called an appeal for that class of americans called africans it was deeply influenced by one of the greatest works ever written at that time by david walker appealed the colored citizens of the world”
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David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
Discussed“it was deeply influenced by one of the greatest works ever written at that time by david walker appealed the colored citizens of the world she's a white sister”
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An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans
Discussed“she wrote a book in 1834 called an appeal for that class of americans called africans it was deeply influenced by one of the greatest works ever written at that time by david walker appealed the colored citizens of the world”
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Korean Cool
Discussed“yo mind i'm just reading the book called the birth of a korean cool by sister wong”
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Three Sisters
Recommended“you read three sisters uncle vanya you read the cherry orchard or any of the short stories”
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Uncle Vanya
Recommended“you read three sisters uncle vanya you read the cherry orchard or any of the short stories”
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The Cherry Orchard
Recommended“you read three sisters uncle vanya you read the cherry orchard or any of the short stories”
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A Classical Student
Recommended“Man the greatest one is called a student it's only two and a half pages It's his favorite short story”
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Race Matters
Recommended“well i can't recommend your book race matters enough and one of the reasons is because of your analysis of that your your understanding of this the superficial aspect of the pursuit that so many people are locked into from cradle to grave”
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Recommended“jim crow for example by the great c van woodward uh history of jim crow which is the bible uh martin luther king said was the bible the civil rights movement”
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The Sister of Mercy. A Tale for the Times We Live in
Recommended“yo mind i'm just reading the book called the birth of a korean cool by sister wong”
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Byrne's Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards
Discussed“I read this book by this uh pool hustler it was a mcgirty life of a billiard hustler I think it was it's a really interesting book because it was about a guy who survived by traveling around on trains like a hobo gambling playing pool and billiards in the depression”
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Primal Blueprint
Discussed“but mark sisson is uh who's he's the guy from he wrote that book the primal blue uh primal blueprint and um he's uh like a nutrition expert”
The Book Review
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The Need
Discussed“novelist Helen Phillips will tell us about her latest book The need”
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Anxiety
Discussed“I want to talk about one of the devices that you do use in one of your stories in the last story in this collection anxiety is the dizziness of Freedom which is this prism”
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The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Discussed“and I'd love you to talk a little bit about the first story in the collection which it's not set in the future even some of your stories feel set in the future but they're really about the past this one feels set in the past and is about the past can you talk about the merchant and The Alchemist”
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Discussed“this collection has a few stories that really stood out to me one was the Merchant and the alchemist's gate the other one I I want to talk about and then there's a third is the life cycle of software objects which is the longest story in the collection tell us what that's about”
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The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
Discussed“and that story and for me I think the most powerful story in the collection my mind is the truth of fact the truth of feeling in which the technology is that people can record every moments of their lives”
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Trust Exercise
Discussed“I'm reading a novel called trust exercise by Susan Choy”
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The British Are Coming
Discussed“I am reading Rick Atkinson's the British AR coming”
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Love and trouble
Discussed“and the one I read most recently is called love and Trouble by CLA deeder and it came out in 2017”
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
Discussed“I am reading fleschman is in trouble by our colleague Taffy bresser akner and um she has said um that this is a book about essentially middle-aged that is her subject”
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Separate
Discussed“you had Steve Luxenberg separate”
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Stony the Road
Discussed“you had David blat biography of Frederick Douglas recently Henry Lewis gate Jr's Stony the road”
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The noble hustle
Discussed“before Underground Railroad I wrote a book called The Noble Hustle which for me is just a humor book about being a weird depressed middle-aged man who goes the World Series of Poker”
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The Colossus of New York
Discussed“Colossus of New York my first sort of book of essays about the city happened because of but it was after 911 and I was trying to figure out how to write how to live in my city”
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The Ice at the End of the World
Discussed“and his new book is the at the end of the world an epic journey into Greenland's buried past and our perilous future”
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The Idea Factory
Discussed“I you know the first book I wrote about was the laboratory and it was it was it was a story of bavs this great laboratory in the 20th century and and the kind of sub theme I guess was innovation”
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Turbulence
Discussed“Dwight you wrote a book that I read earlier when it was in G turbulence by David Salo”
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The Conservative Sensibility
Discussed“George will will be here to talk about his new book the conservative sensibility”
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A Good American Family
Discussed“David marinus will join us to talk about his Memoir a good American Family”
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Little Darlings
Recommended“and another novel that I mentioned which was recommended to me by an editor on our desk was Melanie golding's Little Darlings which is actually more of a straightforward horror novel”
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Maggie Brown and Others
Recommended“It's a Story collection called Maggie Brown and others by Peter orner whose writing I've liked for a long time and and he's reviewed for us”
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
Recommended“I'm reading the most fun we ever had by Claire Lombardo um which has just shown up on the bestseller list which is kind of unusual for a debut novel”
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How Attention Works
Recommended“I read a short book that was completely different from what I thought it was going to be based on the title which is how attention Works finding your way in a world full of distraction by Stefan vandersteel”
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A Childhood
Discussed“yeah one of my favorite books on here which is a childhood by Harry Cruz I think only covers maybe the first five or six years of his life”
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Dancing with Cuba
Discussed“I'm all gto's Memoir I hope I pronounce her name correctly dancing with Cuba it's about a short time she spent in Cuba”
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Stop-time
Discussed“for me I missed were uh stop time which is Frank Conroy's Memoir which is beautiful”
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With the Old Breed
Discussed“and the other one is is a military Memoir called with the old Breed by a man named EB Sledge it's one of my favorite books and I think it came out as well in the early 60s”
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The Kiss
Discussed“and some of them you mentioned I think The Glass Castle and the Liars club and there was Katherine Harrison's the kiss Memoirs that Were Somehow pivotal points”
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Fierce attachments
Discussed“but like you talk about something like Fierce attachments and the way that it's just it's electric those pages those especially those early first few paragraphs you know she's trying to create a grammar for this world”
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Negroland
Discussed“Margo Jefferson's book negrand Anor brard Kafka was the rage”
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Unreliable memoirs
Discussed“Clive James unreliable memo I guess he's not just a book critic”
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Growing up
Discussed“and then Russell Baker comes to mind growing up he he wasn't a Serial memoirist he columnist and humorist and and journalist but he was someone who drew on his own life a lot”
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The Tender Bar
Discussed“the tender bar which is was quite a good Memoir he's a very good writer”
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Self-consciousness
Discussed“I think John Up's Memoirs self-consciousness it's a book that I I really admire and was hard for us to choose”
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On Fire
Discussed“and there's a smaller book which I just it's just one of my favorite books called on fire by a Mississippi fireman named Larry Brown who became a novelist”
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Autobiography of a Face
Discussed“and then another one I was happy see on here was autobiography of a face by Lucy gy and Lucy gy is a a poet also”
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Truth & Beauty
Discussed“that's cool that she's also the subject of another Memoir that we we considered and that people really love Anne patchett's truth and Beauty which is about her friendship with gy”
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Experience
Discussed“so I have okay and so does experience by Martin Amos yes the book I love is it's it's an untidy book but I love that book”
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The Guarded Gate
Recommended“and his new book is called the guarded gate bigotry Eugenics and the law that kept two generations of Jews Italians and other European immigrants out of America”
ChooseFI
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I will teach you to be rich
Discussed“or they hear people talking about kind of ramit Sethi who teaches I will teach you to be rich”
Behind the Bastards
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The Father of Spin
Recommended“The book The Father of Spin is a is a a fine book if you want to learn more about the guy. Um, but I feel like this is uh enough to know about Edward Bernese.”
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Anonymous in Their Own Names
Discussed“When Doris died in 1980, a professor named Susan Henry was inspired by the obituary Edward Bernay wrote about his wife and, you know, inspired her to write a book about Doris Flechman and several other female pioneers. The book is titled Anonymous in Their Own Names”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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It's Your Ship
Discussed“I can appreciate that some of the stats from the book in the book title is it's your ship. yeah correct. so I want to make sure we get that correct. I'm moving to that and the shownotes of course and I put the image in there the one that you the the slide you sent us earlier it's it's”
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Inside
Discussed“he'd been in 22 years when I shook his hand got an undergraduate master's degree in prison wrote a very popular book called inside life behind bars in America”
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Citizen
Discussed“Claudia Rankine talks about this really well in her book an American lyric where and there's a refrain in the book what did he just say”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Running to the Edge
Discussed“and I'm interested maybe that the launching point is just to ask you like why you're like first of all why what drew you to writing a book about running to begin with and how and why did you laser in on this character Bob Larson as a protagonist to tell the story you wanted to tell”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Hard to Handle
Recommended“thank you to everybody that pre subscribed to get a steve Gorman's new book hard to handle the pre-order I'm telling you I've read just I'm telling you I read just about every rut biography out there”
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Winning Offensive Football/ Ken Stabler with Tom LaMarre ; Introd. by Paul (Bear) Bryant
Recommended“you know what i haven't been talk uh been totally getting into was reading this ken stable book because it's getting me totally back into like the 70s nfl that was my favorite time ever”
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John Madden
Recommended“and i remember john madden wrote a book so i was curious to read the john madden book”
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Ken Stabler
Discussed“I'll tell you what's killing me is I'm reading I'm reading that Ken Stabler [ __ ] book”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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AI Superpowers
Discussed“he's the author of seven best-selling books in Chinese and most recently the New York Times bestseller called AI superpowers China Silicon Valley and the New World Order”
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Something Deeply Hidden
Recommended“he has an upcoming book on quantum mechanics that you can pre-order now called something deeply hidden”
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On Intelligence
Discussed“the following is a conversation with Jeff Hawkins he's the founder of the redwood centre for theoretical neuroscience in 2002 and Numenta in 2005 in this 2004 book titled on intelligence and in the research before and after he and his team have worked to reverse-engineer the neocortex and proposed artificial intelligence architectures approaches and ideas that are inspired by”
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Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell
Recommended“the best treatise I've read about this is by guy named Oh Reagan or Regan he wrote a book called why red doesn't sound like a bill”
Modern Wisdom
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The Healthy Writer
Recommended“an episode I did with dr. you and Lawson who is the author of the healthy writer came up with something called the 20-20-20 rule which I thought was great”
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Children of Time
Recommended“have you ever read children of time by Adrienne Tchaikovsky”
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Wired to Create
Recommended“but but that reminds me of this book that I really loved called wired to create by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire because basically one of the themes is that these creative people are like contradictory and all their personality tests basically like they contain multitudes”
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Ending Medical Reversal
Recommended“there's a whole book about this called ending medical reversal by these two doctors that talks about how procedures keep being done even after science has like totally show they should not be done and more”
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Chasing Excellence
Recommended“there's a story in chasing excellence by Ben Bergeron where he says that Matt wouldn't let himself leave”
StarTalk Radio
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Failure Is Not an Option
Recommended“It's the title of his book I think as well, is "Failure Is Not An Option".”
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Discussed“I remember Martin Luther King, if you know the history of Taylor Branch. He comes out of Birmingham Jail after writing one of the greatest pieces of American literature, "Letters from a Birmingham Jail," but he was failing.”
