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Books podcasts were talking about in February 2022
During February 2022, several prominent podcasts featured discussions and recommendations covering a diverse array of literature, ranging from poetry anthologies and memoirs to historical analyses and relationship guides. On The Book Review, Dennis Duncan highlighted the early twentieth-century poetry anthology The Stuffed Owl while discussing memorable literary indexes. The Tim Ferriss Show featured a conversation where Tim Ferriss asked Margaret Atwood about her recommendation of Edward O. Wilson's The Future of Life, and Atwood additionally recommended Yang Jisheng's book concerning the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the toppling of the Gang of Four. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Daniel Holzman explained that he relies on Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay's Franklin Barbecue when preparing meals at home. Meanwhile, Acquired hosted discussions featuring Brian Koppelman recommending Stevie Van Zandt's memoir Unrequited Infatuations as a work exploring art and commerce, and Brendan Eich pointing to Burton H. Klein's Dynamic Economics as an older, underappreciated text regarding firm growth. The Daily Stoic saw Ryan Holiday mention Raymond Franz's Crisis of Conscience, recalling his previous interview with the author. Finally, Huberman Lab focused on psychological research, with Andrew Huberman discussing Amir Levine and Rachel Heller's work on adult attachment styles and romantic relationships in their book Attached.
EconTalk
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To Boldly Grow
Discussed“and the topic of today's conversation is to boldly grow finding joy adventure and dinner in your own backyard”
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One Man's Meat
Discussed“there's a really funny passage in eb white's collection of essays called one man's meat”
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The Control Heuristic
Discussed“our topic for today is his fascinating book the control heuristic the nature of human behavior”
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The Tree of Life and Prosperity
Discussed“but i want i want you to talk about an episode in your book where you talk about the business that you wandered into in 1995 that had this crazy idea about sharing photographs”
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The Theory of Interest
Discussed“I think it goes back correct me if I'm wrong to Irving Fisher and his book The Theory of Interest, um which um might also include, if not that work, other works of Irving's that have um hydraulic systems to to try to visuali- a visual representation of the way that money percolates through the economy.”
No Stupid Questions
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Candide
Discussed“You know, when I was in high school, I read 'Candide'. Did you read 'Candide' by Voltaire? Let us go cultivate our garden.”
The Book Review
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Book Parts
Discussed“your previous book book Parts which you edited cataloged all the various parts of the book from the dust jackets to the index”
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Life: A User's Manual
Discussed“sometime maybe about 10 years ago I just occurred to me that several novels by the members of this group there's there's peric Masterpiece life a users manual”
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The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and Other Novels
Discussed“there's also a book by the American member of the group called Harry Matthews called the sinking of the odek stadium”
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Sylvie and Bruno
Discussed“LS Carroll has an index for his last novel Sylvan Bruno”
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Recitatif
Discussed“I read Tony Morrison's newly published story Rec and it has a really really interesting publishing history”
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The stuffed owl
Recommended“there's a really good one from 19 29 it's it's from a book called The Stuffed owl which is a poetry anthology early 20th century poetry anthology”
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The Power Law
Critiqued“so i recently reviewed a book called The Power law by Sebastian malaby and it's a book about venture capital and Venture capitalists and you know i have to say this was not a book that i was crazy about”
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Mercy Street
Discussed“Jennifer ha will join us to talk about her latest novel Mercy Street”
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The Subplot
Discussed“she is a journalist based in London who specializes in China and her new book is called the subplot what China is reading and why it matters”
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To live
Discussed“then there's yuua who wrote some people may may know it to live which was turned into a fantastic film”
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Dream of Ding Village
Discussed“for example there was a another of his most famous works is called dream of ding Village which was about the a scandals in rural China perpetuated by kind of illegal blood selling”
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Eating to Extinction
Discussed“i wrote about a book by the bbc journalist dan saladino called eating to extinction the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them”
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Life Without Children
Discussed“other ones that are coming out this year include Rody Doyle's short Story collection life without children which looks at the impact of the pandemic on everyday life”
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After me comes the flood
Discussed“I am about halfway through a novel by the British writer Sarah Perry it's her first book it's called after me Comes The Flood which I love as a title”
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Lost in the Valley of Death
Recommended“people can read the book but just one quick question about that Legacy when you look back now at his Instagram at his social media presence having researched the book and written the book what strikes you about it now”
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I Must Betray You
Discussed“let's talk about I must betray you because it's a different country different subject different time period”
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The Bell
Discussed“and in fact the Bell another novel of hers is one of my favorite books but it's the Bell is very very serious and in fact I wouldn't say that it's humorless”
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The Fountains of Silence
Recommended“and for our listeners rud's books are most recently I must betray you but also her first book Between Shades of Gray as well as Fountains of Silence salt to the Sea”
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Out of the Easy
Recommended“and out of the easy”
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The Black Prince
Recommended“I cheated on George this last time with another I think pretty giant not maybe quite as giant writer Iris Murdoch and I read her 1973 novel the black prince”
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Recommended“so what I'm reading now is The Novel Drive your plow over the bones of the Dead by the Polish writer Olga tokaruk”
Behind the Bastards
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The Last Tsar
Discussed“In the last zar author Edward Rzzinski cites several people close to Nicholas II who claimed that he did not create he did not order the creation of the protocols”
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The Democracy Project
Discussed“I'm going to read a quote from from the late anthropologist David Greyber from his book, The Democracy Project.”
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Policing
Discussed“There's there's an excerpt of one from from the book Writings from the World of Policing. Wilson said that Berg cranked the generator, sending 9,200 volts of electricity into his body.”
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African Anarchism
Discussed“with regard to the African um chapter, the impression that I got while reading that chapter um and I think the book itself references um Samba um I got the impression that the author had read um African anarchism, history of a movement by Sam and um they were just kind of like inspired by that”
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Brain of the Firm
Discussed“there was a really interesting thing to me about this because you know if if you look at how like if if you look at how the socialist block sort of responds to to the crisis of the 70s and you know their sort of decay in the 80s like they they have this option available to them right they”
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Designing Freedom
Discussed“There's one little line from uh Beer's book. Well, it's actually a set of presentations called Designing Freedom that I absolutely love. It cracks me up every time I read it.”
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Desert
Discussed“Um today we'll be talking about the book the infamous uh pimic desert by anonymous. For those who are, you know, not aware of this extremely controversial text, uh, Desert is a nihilist anarchist text first published in 2011”
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Gypsies, wars, and other instances of the wild
Discussed“Cuz there's a there's a there's a thing I like it genuinely disturbed me reading it in here about the Serbs during during the the Bosnian genocide where they they're they're quoting that's disturbing about that. Oh, yeah. This is this is a I I uh Okay, so they're they're doing a they're reading a quote from the book Gypsies”
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The Cybernetic Brain
Discussed“Like we on the show we we got into the cybernetics angle by reading uh Andrew Pickering in his book the cybernetic brain in which um he kind of acknowledged that like there's he kind of split it into two like there's American cybernetics”
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Cybernetic Revolutionaries
Discussed“And even like you read the accounts from this thing like uh both in Eden Medina's cybernetic revolutionaries and in Beer's own account and there's like the sense that it was actually kind of spooky and weird that like even the people involved didn't quite expect it to work out that way”
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Irrepressible Reformer
Discussed“According to Wayne Wyand, author of Irrepressible Reformer, a biography of Melville Dwey, Dwey was upset with the settlement, not because he had been reprimanded for anything improper, but because he worried the stenographer might got might spread rumors that she got $2,000 for no work.”
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The Next Conservatism
Discussed“There's a picture of Trump and Lind together and like a copy of or at least Trump together with a copy of his book um which is titled uh uh the next conservatism.”
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A TREATISE ON ADULTERATIONS OF FOOD
Discussed“In 1820, a pioneering book by chemist Frederick Accum, titled A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons, had aroused widespread public outrage when it was published in London. Accum minced no words.”
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A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons
Discussed“In 1820, a pioneering book by chemist Frederick Accum, titled A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons, had aroused widespread public outrage when it was published in London. Accum minced no words.”
Modern Wisdom
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The dawn of Darwinian medicine
Discussed“started with his then mentor randy nessie who you know coined the term darwinian medicine huge huge scholar in the field”
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T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism
Discussed“there's a book by a man named Henry elenberger called discovery of the unconscious that traces back psychogenic epidemics to about 300 years and I knew that you know people in adolescence”
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The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
Recommended“the first is knowing what value that i'm optimizing for there's a really powerful exercise that we've adopted from a book called the fifth discipline field guide that's called the top values exercise”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Arctic Dreams
Discussed“I'm reading a book right now called Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez he was a friend”
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The Future of Life
Recommended“and I'd love to ask you about because you you've recommended that young adults should read the future of Life by Edmund Osborne Wilson if the internet is to be believed”
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The World Turned Upside Down
Recommended“the world turned upside down it's by Yang Jang the most interesting part for me is is how they went about toppling the gang of four”
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Secrets of Power Negotiating
Recommended“and then secrets of power negotiating i would get the audio if you can”
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December 1941
Recommended“so um and it's a little book it's 789 pages you have to immerse i mean you have to really get into it it's called december 1941.”
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The Scientists
Discussed“So, very briefly, in The Scientist by John Gribben, you wrote on your blog, this was 2021, I think it was towards the end of July, that you're reading his magisterial tome, I'm not quoting verbatim, The Scientist.”
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Can't Even
Discussed“Then and Helen Peterson's Can't Even, How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Maybe a little less inspiring sounding.”
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Laziness Does Not Exist
Discussed“And then Devin Price's Laziness Does Not Exist. These are, I wouldn't say, entirely new...”
Timcast IRL
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Fallout 3.
Discussed“I'm thinking about that video game Fallout which I love Fallout 3. and I'm imagining like in this game in the Fallout series you're finding guns and bullets everywhere”
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Intellectuals
Discussed“there was this book that I read when I was 17 that really informed my view on this and it's called intellectuals by Paul Johnson and he sort of goes through the lives of many of the people who are held up as like the foundation or the foundational thinkers of modern society”
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Liberty and Tyranny
Discussed“he wrote the book The Liberty amendments that discusses what needs to be passed in a Convention of states”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Franklin Barbecue
Recommended“so when i want to barbecue at home i i go i just follow the steps from the franklin bbq book”
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Unsettled
Discussed“how many co your your book is called unsettled”
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American Injustice
Recommended“he just wrote a book called american injustice and i brought it to you”
StarTalk Radio
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Alien Worlds
Discussed“you're featured in episode two of netflix's docu-series alien world”
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Evolution of Physics
Discussed“so just reading a book written by albert einstein or somewhere else someone else in 1938 right and so he was it's called the evolution of physics and one of the things he was talking about is how physical thought uh you know what we call the scientific method develop and so you know in the western world i know”
Acquired
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Super Pumped
Discussed“Well, for listeners who don't know the events of, you know, Uber leading all the way up through their IPO and the implosion around that and the just insane story that all of that was is coming out as a Showtime series on February 27th called Super Pumped.”
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Unrequited Infatuations
Recommended“And second, for this conversation we're having, there's a book I just read called Unrequited Infatuations by Little Steven Van Zandt, who you know as either Bruce Springsteen's right hand or as James Gandolfini's right hand in The Sopranos... And it's an amazing book about art and commerce, and about uh all these questions, unrequited infatuations. I highly recommend it.”
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Dynamic Economics
Recommended“it's called dynamic economics by burton klein and you've never heard of burton klein burton klein looked at how firms grow and how they start sometimes the skunk works projects”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Respondent
Discussed“His book, which we're going to concentrate on today, at least to some degree, is The Respondent, exposing the cartel of family law. It's called to action, and a necessary one, to reform the one branch of our legal system that does not provide the presumption of innocence.”
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A Promise to Ourselves
Discussed“The only book I found was Alec Baldwin's book, A Promise to Ourselves, and I could only get 15 pages into that, because and and he emailed me and said, 'This is the best I can offer right now. Read my book.'”
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A theory of justice
Discussed“And some of that is an unfair burden—the natural lottery, as John Rawls calls it.”
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On Liberty
Discussed“And what's so ironic about it is that, as you might know, John Stuart Mill, who was one of the fathers of utilitarianism and very often invoked in this current sort of collectivist setting with the mandates, right?”
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The Master-Singers of Nuremberg (Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg) Opera in Three Acts
Discussed“it says that the highest and the lowest always have to be United and what that means in some sense is that is that well I learned that in part from watching Wagner's die Meister singer the Opera because he the libretto elaborates on that theme in an absolutely Stellar manner”
The Daily Stoic
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Crisis of Conscience
Recommended“so i read a good book called crisis of conscience and i had i had the guy on the podcast last year”
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The stranger in the woods
Discussed“did you read the stranger in the woods by michael finkel”
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Lincoln on the Verge
Recommended“i don't know if i have it here uh called uh oh here it is let me grab it called lincoln on the verge 13 days to washington”
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Indian givers, How the indians of the americas transformed the world
Recommended“another book called indian givers of his that's fantastic”
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Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel
Recommended“on the uh bookshelf here at cerro gordo i found one of my absolute favorite books toto-chan the little girl at the window but there's a little memento mori story that i think about every time i touch or think about this book which i just reread a couple years ago and we actually sell my bookstore the painted porch”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Discussed“You wrote the book 'This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends', and of course, we're referring to cyber war and cyber security.”
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What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
Discussed“bukowski charles bukowski i think has the quote uh do what you love and let it kill you right like that right”
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My Dear, Find what You Love and Let it Kill You
Discussed“bukowski charles bukowski i think has the quote uh do what you love and let it kill you right like that right”
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Capitalism and freedom
Discussed“So, okay, you mentioned Milton Friedman and you mentioned his book called 'Capitalism and Freedom.' He writes that there are only three legitimate functions of government: to preserve law and order, to enforce private contracts, and to ensure that private markets work.”
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Prozac nation
Discussed“But what's happened is that the publicity, I mean, 'Prozac Nation' was a good example of making the argument that why should people settle for normal happiness when they can have better than normal happiness? And if you're not feeling that normal happiness, you should take a drug.”
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Sickening
Discussed“you wrote the book overdosed america and the new book coming out now called sickening about how big pharma broke american healthcare including science and research and how we can fix it”
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Overdosed America
Discussed“you wrote the book overdosed america and the new book coming out now called sickening about how big pharma broke american healthcare including science and research and how we can fix it”
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Galileo's Error
Discussed“Although I do—the final chapter of my book, Galileo's Era, is more experimental. So the first four chapters are the cold-blooded case for the panpsychist view as the best solution to the hard problem of consciousness.”
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Lies In a Mirror
Discussed“They have an active center that tries to bring people in. I believe they are producing a book that I contributed to, concerning different philosophers' opinions on God and some of the big questions.”
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How the laws of physics lie
Discussed“my colleague the philosopher of science nancy cartwright he's got this book how the laws of physics lie where she says you know physicists explore uh things in very specific circumstances and then in an unwarranted way generalize that”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Liar's Poker
Discussed“I read Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis's first book, just after I graduated college.”
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Rebel in the ranks
Discussed“You've written a book called Rebel in the Ranks, which is about Martin Luther; could you just paint a picture of Martin Luther, this figure who so profoundly influenced the path of humanity? Was he an obvious person to trigger the Reformation?”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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A Long Way Gone
Discussed“in the book in in one of the books A Long Way Gone you write you you write about seeing babies and kids just covered in blood and dead people in cars”
Huberman Lab
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Attached
Recommended“Fortunately, psychologists and biologists have begun to utilize this information to promote healthier, more secure adult romantic relationships. Authors Amir Levine and Rachel Heller are accomplished academics and researchers who have thoughtfully related Ainsworth's findings to adult attachment styles, providing strategies for improving attachment styles through their clinical research.”
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Right Brain Psychotherapy
Recommended“He has a wonderful book called Right Brain Psychotherapy. It's a little bit technical, but if you're interested in some of the studies, this book Right Brain Psychotherapy details how everything from nursing of children to playtime behavior”
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Play It Away
Recommended“For those who want more guidance on how to play, there's a book I learned about through Tim Ferriss' blog called 'Play It Away: A Workaholic's Cure for Anxiety.' This book is focused on anxiety, written by Charlie Hoehn, spelled H-O-E-H-N, and I’ll provide a link to it in the show notes.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The World Needs More Purple People
Discussed“i interviewed kristen bell recently and she wrote a book called why the world needs more purple people and that's because of the red and blue states”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived By the Patient
Discussed“most importantly he wrote a book called anatomy of an illness which kind of launched this form of study around the world”
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Red Carpet
Discussed“and he's got a new book out of out that explains it so well it's called red carpet nice i like that see the play on words red carpet hollywood china and the global battle for cultural supremacy”
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The Black Boom
Discussed“and we're going to come back and we're going to talk about his latest book called the black boom and it talks the book is about the economy and how uh black americans did a hell of a lot better under donald trump than the media will ever tell you that's my own short synopsis that's not the whole book”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Ocean
Recommended“She also has a brand new book out entitled "Ocean: a Global Odyssey". This is what it looks like. It's an amazing book.”
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Old Path White Clouds
Discussed“I have a book in my library, "Old Path White Clouds," it's his, he's basically presenting the teaching of Gautama Buddha. It looks like you actually read that book. I actually read it. Look at that thing. It's been beat to hell.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Blitzscaling
Discussed“Now now you mention in the book the contrarian principle and this is also one of the principles you mentioned in your other book, Blitzscaling.”
ChooseFI
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First to a Million
Discussed“Dan, with his brand new book First to a Million, took this task on, and I think he did a brilliant job.”
The Rubin Report
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The Great Reset
Discussed“- [Dave Yeah. - So in his book he talks about that the age of free will is over. And he says that's right now, that you don't really make the decisions that you think you make because you're so influenced by what you see.”
This Week in Startups
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Speed & Scale
Discussed“VC legend John Doerr is back on This Week in Startups for his second appearance and he joins us with his co-author Ryan to talk about their new book Speed and Scale.”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
Discussed“i mean i wrote a book yeah and i i had the best title for the book and i i we did use that title it's called the three signs of a miserable job because it was the right title people would like that you know the five dysfunctions of a team they liked the fact that it was kind”
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Brother Odd
Recommended“and he has a book called brother odd okay which is one of my favorite books it's this odd thomas series”
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Searching for and Maintaining Peace
Recommended“i have this little book by a guy named father jacques philippe it's this little pink book it's called the the building and maintaining of peace oh wow and it's like a mate the guy is like where do you get that where'd you get this”
Pod Save America
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The Magic Fish
Discussed“john a young vietnamese boy who loves fairy tales uses one to tell his immigrant parents that he's gay not the bible it's not the bible it's from the magic fish strongly in and i don't know how to say something that's from the magic fish uh not the bible”
