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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2022
April 2022 discussions on podcasts ranged from technological futures and science fiction to political commentary and writing. On All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg, the hosts invoked George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four while discussing contemporary parallels between federal oversight and governmental control of information. The Lex Fridman Podcast featured extensive explorations of science fiction, notably when Lex and guest Grimes discussed Iain M. Banks's Surface Detail and The Player of Games, alongside mentions of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Harlan Ellison's short story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. In another episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, Sara Walker referenced a book given to her by her former advisor Paul Davies titled The Eerie Silence. On The Daily Stoic, Stacey Abrams reflected on her career as an author, mentioning her work on The Night of the Were-Boy and discussing her previously written romance novels, including reference to The Everything Guide to Writing a Romance Novel.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Discussed“There was a great tweet that encapsulated this—it’s like we've merged George Orwell with Iran, where Elon Musk, the heroic entrepreneur, tries to rescue freedom of speech, while simultaneously, an Orwellian ministry of truth is being created by the federal government.”
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Barbarians at the Gate
Discussed“Yeah, it's worth watching. The book is excellent, focused next level.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Surface Detail
Discussed“Have you read 'Surface Detail' by Ian Banks?”
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The player of games
Discussed“I've only read 'The Player of Games.'”
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War and Peace
Discussed“You could, for example, name an album 'Romeo and Juliet' or 'War and Peace.'”
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Discussed“I mean, have you read the sci-fi short story, 'I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream'? Good title, right?”
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The Eerie Silence
Discussed“So, um, but he also gave me a book, uh, The Eerie Silence that he had written, and he wrote in it, um, this is how E.T. gets to E.T.”
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The Prophet
Discussed“I was given The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran as a graduation present from my high school English teacher, and I still have that book in a special place on my bookshelf because I think it speaks to the nature of human experience. Right?”
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TEN POINTS
Discussed“Ten Points is a book I love a lot. What is it?”
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The Princess Bride
Discussed“Boy, these are all non-fiction except for The Princess Bride. I have to mention it's an outlier.”
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On the Move
Discussed“He has a great biography called 'On the Move,' and there's a wonderful documentary that just came out about him—he died in 2015. I'm actually kind of a collector of his things.”
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Can Love Last?
Discussed“And so this book's name is kind of corny, but it's written by an analyst, again, it's called 'Can Love Last?' It's a book about how really good strong relationships are the consequence of people constantly moving through this dependency-objectification dynamic.”
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Observing the erotic imagination
Discussed“There's a book called 'The Erotic Imagination.' It's a very psychoanalytic book written by a psychoanalyst that talks about—well, here's the uncomfortable reality: Freud was at least right about one thing, which is that the brain circuitry that you use to develop attachments to your caregivers, mother and father, or other caregivers do not disappear when you hit puberty.”
The Daily Stoic
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The Night of the Were-Boy
Discussed“I've probably written three or four books before it really occurred to me that like it was called intellectual property. Yes, and that you’ve created a thing.”
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The Everything Guide to Writing a Romance Novel
Discussed“The same thing is true with a romance novel I wrote in 2004; those are opportunities that can proliferate, and I don't have to write another word for it to be true, and someone else can pick up the ball and run with it. That still exists and operates without me having to be involved day to day, just like”
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The Nineties
Discussed“In my book about 'The 90s,' I wrote about Nirvana and grunge, and I included a footnote regarding how it may seem like I'm juxtaposing a white guy from the eroded world of rock with a hip-hop artist from the rising world of rap.”
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Chronicles
Discussed“Reading Bob Dylan's memoir gave an intriguing perspective; he believed long songs with many verses are valuable for practicing memorization without context.”
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But What If We're Wrong?
Discussed“I had a book come out in 2016 called 'But What If We're Wrong?'. So I was doing an audiobook for it, and I thought, 'I don't like the sound of my own voice.'”
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Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]
Discussed“I can remember specific scenes from Richard Wright's Black Boy in a vivid way.”
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Crossroads
Discussed“I'm reading Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads right now, and it's great, but I've already forgotten parts at the beginning of the book.”
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I Wear the Black Hat
Discussed“I also thought I Wear the Black Hat was a great book too.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Discussed“Meanwhile, people don't have healthcare in other parts of Madagascar, but he's got this $58,000 or more scale model of Bethlehem in the living room to show to random dudes who don’t care; I’m just here to write a book.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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One Answer to Cancer
Discussed“I read every book I could on cancer and came across this one book called "One Answer to Cancer."”
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MONEY Master the Game
Discussed“You know, I did one book, 'Money, Master the Game,' it was kind of like this.”
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American notes
Discussed“They also wrote a book called 'Generations'; it's about 550 pages of Anglo-American history.”
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Stan Weinstein's Secrets for profiting in bull and bear markets
Discussed“It's like the universe is just aligning with you. As I wrote in 'The Shortcut to the Secret,' the key is to be happy now.”
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The Greatest Secret
Discussed“And the other one was, I remember when I first started, I would, and I know you used the beautiful word awareness in The Greatest Secret, I remember I used to write on a little post-it note when I'd wake up in the morning, I'd have it next to my bedside table and then by the place where I brush”
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Think and Grow Rich
Discussed“When I was reading your book, I felt so happy because when you were sharing, this was the greatest secret; I couldn't agree with you more.”
Huberman Lab
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An Introduction to Neuroendocrinology
Discussed“We covered basically an endocrinology textbook, a neuroendocrinology textbook's worth of information, and a ton of practical tips in there.”
SmartLess
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Discussed“Some of his books have even become some of our favorite movies, such as The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short.”
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Discussed“Some of his books have even become some of our favorite movies, such as The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short.”
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Discussed“Some of his books have even become some of our favorite movies, such as The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short.”
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Liar's Poker
Discussed“My first book was called 'Liar's Poker'; it was this little memoir of me working on Wall Street, which, by the way, is being made into a film now.”
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The Deficit Myth
Discussed“The idea of the myth of the deficit… have you read that book? I just got it, that what's-her-name wrote.”
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Discussed“You did an incredible job with your book 'The Premonition,' right? Regarding the expertise and the experts you found there, let’s speak briefly about the concept and the subject matter for our listeners who aren't familiar.”
The Rubin Report
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The Torah
Discussed“So I started studying the Torah and I said, ",Okay, there's two things. One, there is Yiddishkeit," right?”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Murray Walker: Incredible!
Discussed“Did you know these commentators are just using a template made by the legendary F1 commentator named Murray Walker? I have to look this guy up!”
