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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2022
In April 2022, podcasters and their guests traversed topics ranging from historical anarchism and psychology to speculative fiction. Margaret Kiljoy recommended two distinct titles on Behind the Bastards, highlighting The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman by Kaneko Fumiko, Mikiso Hane, and Jean Inglis, alongside John Crump’s Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan. Speculative and science fiction captured attention on the Lex Fridman Podcast, where Lex Fridman and Grimes discussed Iain M. Banks’s Surface Detail, Harlan Ellison’s short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," and James Lovelock’s Novacene, co-authored by Bryan Appleyard. Psychological frameworks and skill acquisition rounded out the month's prominent discussions. On The Rich Roll Podcast, Terry Crews recommended David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart and its sequel, You Are Now Less Dumb, while Joe Rogan discussed Geoff Colvin’s Talent Is Overrated on The Joe Rogan Experience, connecting skill development to deliberate practice.
Behind the Bastards
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Weavers of Revolution
Discussed“and the historian Peter Wyn uh who published the sort of landmark study uh that really dominated the field of the history and historioggraphy of the popular unity years he published a book called weavers of revolution”
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Anarchist Modernity
Discussed“there's a a a modern historian named uh Shonoshi who writes this book called uh anarchist modern anarchist modernity cooperism and Japanese uh Russian intellectual relations in modern Japan and he makes the argument basically”
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Monster of the Twentieth Century
Discussed“So, I in 1900, Kotu writes this book called Imperialism Monster of the 20th Century, which is like a better title. Good title. Yeah. Great title. And this is significant for a number of reasons.”
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The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
Recommended“And so she tears out the pardon and so she goes to prison and she lives long enough to write like the greatest entry in in the genre of a narco feminist a Japanese narco feminist prison memoirs which is an entire genre.”
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Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan
Recommended“I mean there there was a sort of like renaissance in in Hariso scholarship when this one guy named John Crup wrote this book called Harsho Hareso and pure anarchism in ancient war Japan which is a mouthful of a title but I'm just going to keep plugging this”
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John Wayne: American
Discussed“Biographer Randy Roberts writes in his book John Wayne American, quote, "Cha's life before 1941 is a mystery. She was never accepted in Hollywood, and rumors circulated at the time that she met John Wayne, that she was working as a high-priced call girl and a bit actress in the Mexican film industry."”
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Discussed“Um, in the book John Wayne, the life and legend, Scott Iman explains, "All of this sloppy switching happened in Earlham, where the family moved in 1910, and where Marian's younger brother, Robert, was born in December 1911.”
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Print the Legend
Discussed“Um, in the book John Wayne, the life and legend, Scott Iman explains, "All of this sloppy switching happened in Earlham, where the family moved in 1910, and where Marian's younger brother, Robert, was born in December 1911.”
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When the Legend Became Fact
Discussed“Biographer Richard Jensen writes in When the Legend Became Fact: The True Life of John Wayne, quote, "Marian's dysfunctional parents filled the Morrison home with strife. Marian became a neurotic kid, unable to sleep normally without nightmares.”
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye Study Guide
Critiqued“So the very very very short version is it's like it's an incredibly patriarchal like evangelical Christian religious system in which like sex before marriage is seen as like an incredible sin and there's just like like focus on like the purity of the wife”
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Ornithological Biography
Critiqued“The tale of The Runaway, one of the episodes about American life he inserted into his 30,000page five volume ornithological biography, a companion to Birds of America, spins the tale of an encounter with a black man in a Louisiana swamp.”
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Audubon's Birds of America
Discussed“His great work, which is what he calls it, would be to decisively identify, name, and sketch every single bird species in the parts of North America controlled by the US government. He called this book the birds of America”
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The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
Discussed“In 1843, John James set out on what was to be his last adventure into the wilds. He went up the miss he went up the Missouri River and out the Yellowstone. At 58 years old, he was just on the verge of being too old to handle the rigors of the journey. His project this trip was a catalog”
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
Discussed“Pin is moving at a glacial pace considering the magnitude of the in of the infraction and the institutions that helped to assemble the racist skull collection are tight lipped and I I have read there's a book I found about the bone trade in in stolen bones um called plundered skulls and stolen spirits by Chip Coowwell”
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The Famine Plot
Discussed“And this quote from Kugan's book makes it clear how badly this situation tended to work because you have these kind of local landlords who are managing these workhouses.”
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The Invention of the White Race
Discussed“And I want to quote next from the book The Invention of the White Race by Theodore Allen. The option for racial oppression left no room in the ranks of the colonial upper upper class for Catholic Irish chieftains for all that some of them might wear the title sir.”
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The Great Hunger
Discussed“In his 1962 text, The Great Hunger, historian Cecile Woodham Smith, which is a very English name for a guy who's who's writing a a very critical book about the Great Hunger. Uh, man's a proper Brit.”
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Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right
Recommended“Uh we have a truly delightful um review of of very contemporary, very recently made cyberpunk works uh by Elizabeth Sandifer, author of Neo Reaction of Bassilisk, which anybody who listens to this podcast needs to read Neo Reaction of Bassilisk.”
The Book Review
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The Queue
Discussed“his first novel The Q was actually released in France”
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Their Four Hearts
Discussed“one of them is therefore Hearts which I mentioned it's about these four archetypal Soviet Heroes who are sent on this pointless mission that involves all kinds of violence and degradation and really some of the most grotesque things I've ever read”
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Day of the Oprichnik
Discussed“so there's the day of the pitnick which is probably his most overtly political book”
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Telluria
Discussed“and one of his books that is coming out this year also in translation for the first time is Toria and that's also set in a futuristic Russia Europe that has devolved into these feudal medieval States”
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Blue Lard
Discussed“some of the ones that are coming out include blue lard which features a sex scene between clones of Stalin and kushev and landed soken with a charge of obscenity and distributing pornography which was later dropped”
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The Palace Papers
Discussed“I reviewed Tina Brown's hotly anticipated book about the Royals the palace papers and this is her second book on the Royals”
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The Diana Chronicles
Discussed“obviously her first book was the Diana Chronicles which I also reviewed back in ancient times at the New York Observer and that was more or less a biography”
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Something for the Pain
Discussed“I started I said that I started in a weird way by reading his Memoir about horse racing which is called something for the pain and I finished that a few weeks ago”
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Let There Be Light
Recommended“the cartoonist and author lyanna fin is here to talk about her new book let there be light an adaptation of the Book of Genesis starring a female God”
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Love That Story
Recommended“I am here with Jonathan vaness who's the author most recently of love that story and Essay collection”
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Phenotypes
Recommended“I'm reading phenotypes by Paulo Scott it's a Brazilian novel translated by Daniel Han”
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Tamarisk row
Recommended“so I'm reading his first novel which is called Tamarisk row and it was published in 1974”
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Keats
Discussed“bro lucasta Miller joins us to help us see a great poet more clearly and to talk about her new book Keats a brief life in nine poems and one Epitaph”
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The Trayvon Generation
Discussed“her new book is the Trayvon generation in the book review Mitchell s Jackson calls it a profound and lyrical meditation on Race class Justice and their intersections with art”
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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Discussed“Jen you also took a dive into the past in a personal way going a little further back in time to the philosopher wienstein and his his private journals yes so I reviewed this new translation and actually it's it's the first time that it's been translated into English in a volume these are Vicken Stein's private journals from 1914”
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Grey Bees
Discussed“lucky breaks a short story collection by yvenia beruset translated by Eugene ostashevsky and gray bees by Andre kirkov translated by Boris druk”
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Death and the Penguin
Discussed“but then I realized when you mentioned it I had read his book death in the penguin”
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Sex is a funny word
Discussed“A County prosecutor's office in Wyoming considered Criminal charges against Library employees for stocking books like this book is gay and sex is a funny word”
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Lawn boy
Discussed“the number two book was a book called lawn booy by Jonathan everon which is a novel that follows a young Mexican-American man who works as a landscaper and is coming to terms with his sexual identity”
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Young Mungo
Discussed“so I have been reading two books side by side and it's funny because they are completely different one is Young the new book by Douglas Stewart and the other is the heart stop series”
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the lonely passion of judith hearne
Discussed“I'd read two of his books previously the lonely passion of Judith Hearn which is I think currently available from the New York Review of Books Classics line and the Emperor of ice cream”
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The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Discussed“I'd read two of his books previously the lonely passion of Judith Hearn which is I think currently available from the New York Review of Books Classics line and the Emperor of ice cream”
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Riverman
Recommended“he has been a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine since 2003 and his new book is River man an American Odyssey”
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Catholics
Recommended“it's called Catholics it's a a very slender almost Nolla by Brian Moore who was an Irish writer who eventually settled in Canada”
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The Emergency
Discussed“you talk in the book about the short amount of time you have”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The player of games
Discussed“I've only read 'The Player of Games.'”
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Surface Detail
Recommended“Have you read 'Surface Detail' by Ian Banks?”
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Recommended“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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Novacene
Recommended“have you did you read uh nova scene yet by james lovelock you're doing a lot of really good book recommendations here”
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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
Recommended“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
Recommended“Ten Points is a book I love a lot. What is it?”
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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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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.”
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Can Love Last?
Recommended“and so this the book is the name is kind of corny but the it's written by an analyst again it's called can love last and it's a book about how really good strong relationships are the consequence of people constantly moving through this um dependency objectification Dynamic”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Discussed“And for the time being today we're discussing uh this book you recommended to me uh Hirohito and the making of modern Japan by Herbert Pix.”
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Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy
Discussed“In fact, I interviewed Richard Hania recently on my podcast and as you know, he has a book out called public choice public choice Syria and the illusion of grand strategy where he makes exactly this point where he's he's arguing that the unitary actor model does not apply to nation states.”
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The World Economy
Discussed“So, you know, reading this because, you know, I was looking at the same numbers earlier today or not the same but those kinds of numbers uh where like at the time Japan had in 1935 it had a GDP per capita that was like almost a tenth of the US's and you know I was thinking about this”
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Founding Brothers
Discussed“there's a great book on that actually called founding brothers uh there was one of my like kind of texts that made me think a lot about the founders”
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Labor Econ Versus the World
Recommended“So, uh, today we're talking about your book, Labor, Econ Versus the World, and it's a collection of your essays throughout the years, and I highly recommend it.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Radical Chic
Discussed“it would be the perfect thing to write the modern version of Tom Wolf's classic radical Chic about wouldn't it”
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Don't Burn This Country
Discussed“He's also a bestselling author and his new book is called Don't Burn This Country.”
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The Epic of America
Discussed“You've got a chapter called Shake Hands with your neighbors. And you talk about the American dream. That was a term coined, you write, by author James Truslow Adams 1931 book The Epic of America.”
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True Crime
Discussed“author of such internationally best-selling novels as True Crime. Hello, do people remember True Crime?”
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Don't Say a Word
Discussed“And Don't Say a Word, also made into a film starring Michael Douglas and Brittany Murphy, if my memory serves, right?”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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You Are Not So Smart
Recommended“It's like, "You Are Not So Smart." It's a book that totally revamps the way you think things are and they're not.”
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You Are Now Less Dumb
Recommended“And then there's another book that followed it called "You Are Now Less Dumb."”
Modern Wisdom
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Arcadia
Discussed“it's what tom stoppard in arcadia describes he says at one point something like he says you know the character um this is the the student says”
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Wilful Blindness
Recommended“Sam Cooper who's a um an investigative journalist in Canada wrote a good book willful blindness talks about you know you know how it works at least in Canada”
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Devil Take the Hindmost
Recommended“there's a great book devil take the hindmost you know just let it let chips fall or they may you know we can we can try so much but at some point you have to be like hey like you made the choice”
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Company of One
Discussed“Have you ever written like I So in my book, like I'm inspired by Paul Jarvis. He wrote The Company of One.”
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Ninja Secrets of Invisibility
Discussed“Ashida Kim published a bunch of books in the '80s like Ninja Secrets of Invisibility or Ninja Magic Skills or This or That.”
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How Not to Die
Discussed“my husband is one of those people where it's like he's he read that book how how not to die and he is you know he's always intermittent fasting”
This Week in Startups
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Variety Deal Memo
Discussed“there was a part of me when i was reading the books that understood including your book where you talk about real life both as you know famous deal memo about youtube acquiring or about google acquiring youtube”
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Hit Makers
Discussed“this is a point that lauren steinberg quite interviewed both for a book that i wrote called uh hit makers which is there um and for um this article”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Indifferent Stars Above
Discussed“yeah the indifferent stars above unbelievable”
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Talent Is Overrated
Recommended“there's a great book called talent is overrated and what the guy does is he basically builds off”
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Discussed“there's a great book by tolstoy that i read a long time ago the argument is you can't be a christian and be at war a christian cannot kill period the end you can't do it it's uh i think it's called the kingdom of heaven is within”
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The Most Dangerous Game
Discussed“well that book the most dangerous game didn't that come out in like the 30s it's an old old book about that very very thing”
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November
Discussed“yeah i saw a play he wrote in new york in 2008 called november it was a political thing but it was just like a one laugh after another”
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White Guilt
Recommended“right shelby wrote notably white guilt where he says black power and white guilt are the same thing”
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Double fantasy
Discussed“and they were deciding whether to go on tour based on the success of a of his last record album called double fantasy”
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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Level Up
Discussed“I would imagine that most people are either not familiar or not very familiar with Stacy Abrams the businesswoman and entrepreneur which I was fascinated to read about in the book which was published by my my friends at my publisher portfolio”
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Why not the best?
Discussed“I read a book by another entrepreneur who became a politician in your state I don't know if you've read Jimmy Carter's campaign book it's fascinating”
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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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Black Boy
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
Recommended“and I also love uh I wear the black hat I thought that was a great book too”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Woke Racism
Discussed“After this short break, they’ll return to talk about John's book 'Woke Racism.' So our listener, I know, wrote us an email about the high gas prices we’re currently seeing as a result of Russia’s war with Ukraine.”
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Nine Nasty Words : English in the Gutter
Discussed“so your playful side comes out in a book that you wrote last year called Nine nasty words and you document the history of various profane words from the pretty tame like damn and hell to the totally Taboo in the form of the n-word”
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What to Expect when You're Expecting
Discussed“I'm not sure whether you know that book, but roughly every first-time parent I know has three copies of it; one that they bought for themselves and two that were gifted to them by friends. And I suspect your book will be gifted much less frequently than 'What to Expect When You’re Expecting,' given people's discomfort with death.”
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A Beginner's Guide to the End
Discussed“you've co-authored a book called a beginner's guide to the end and the best way I can summarize it is that it's like What to Expect When You're Expecting except for dying instead of giving birth”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Thanks A Thousand
Discussed“and thanks a thousand for which he went around the world and thanked every person who had even the smallest role in making his morning cup of coffee possible”
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Giftology
Recommended“he wrote giftology it's all about giving gifts and how they can make your life better and make other people's lives better”
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Visions of Japan
Recommended“This is a book called Visions of Japan and the subtitle is Kawase, that's k a w a s e, Hasui, h a s u i Kawase Hasui's masterpieces.”
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The Shaman's Apprentice
Recommended“He also wrote a book called either The or A Shaman's Apprentice, which is very very good about his adventures in places like Suriname.”
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Ka
Recommended“It's called Ka, just k a by John Crowley and it is a long book.”
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Thus Spoke the Plant
Recommended“she's got a book called thus spoke the plant”
Timcast IRL
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Creating Christ
Discussed“this book that i mentioned is called creating christ how roman emperors invented christianity”
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The Glass Factory
Discussed“what's the book called The Glass Factory”
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Ancient History of Aratta-Ukraine (20,000 BCE - 1,000 CE)
Discussed“but there's this is a book by yuri shilov ancient history of arata ukraine 20 000 uh bc to 1000 ce”
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No One Knows how
Discussed“there's a there's a book I think it's by um Lydia help me if you know it's uh no one knows how to make a pizza by Julie”
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The Great Divorce
Recommended“check out C.S Lewis's the great divorce easily my favorite short story”
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The Return of the God Hypothesis
Recommended“there's a wonderful book about this called the return of the god hypothesis”
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The Phoney Victory
Discussed“that was a fascinating take on world war ii from britain's perspective called the phony victory by peter hitchens”
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Growth of the Soil
Discussed“I was obsessed with Norwegian literature for a while and there was this book a growth of the soil I believe was it growth of the soil Yeah by newtampson”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Color of Christ
Discussed“edward j blum and paul harvey explored that history in their new book the color of christ the son of god and the saga of race in america”
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The Proud Tower
Recommended“And, uh, I don't know, I somebody got fun—I was on the road in Canada, somebody got me a book, The Guns of August, and it's about World War I and it's phenomenal.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Be a Triangle
Recommended“lily thank you for writing such a great book and i think there's going to be so many people that are listening to this now that have heard the context of the the journey that led up to you creating this book that might be having questions about their own foundation”
Conversations with Tyler
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Capital is Back
Discussed“So I mean you know, I'm not saying it's not important. It is very important and you know, if you go back to you know, our paper with Gabriel Zucman which was published now almost 10 years ago in the quarterly journal of economics in 2014 called you know, Capital is Back, Wealth-Income Ratio in the Long Run 1700-2010, you”
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The Irish sketch-book
Discussed“the great novelist William thery who was married to an Irish woman said when he did a tour of Ireland and wrote his Irish SketchBook where to get at the truth in this country it is not possible”
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Modern Ireland and Revolution
Recommended“I recommend his classic work modern Ireland”
Acquired
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Memory's Legion
Recommended“and they released a compendium of all the short stories plus a few new ones called memories legion and this is really cool like i mean they're great writers great short stories to read even if you don't know anything about the expanse story”
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Matchmakers
Recommended“you know there's a book that hamilton and i both really enjoyed reading and learned a lot from it's called the matchmakers from evans and schmalenzi so both are economists who've thought really deeply about platforms”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Social Choice and Individual Values
Discussed“he has a famous uh book called social choice and individual values and then that book is a theorem which he has to employ rigorous mathematics to demonstrate”
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Little Science, Big Science
Discussed“but the problem is is that there's a book called big science little science that was written in about 1962 and the author escapes me at the moment”
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Panic
Discussed“colette's first anthology was panics and persecutions 20 quillet tales of excommunication in the digital age which featured essays from those who have been targeted by mobs in academic and artistic communities”
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In a Different Voice
Discussed“and she wrote a book called in a different voice and she came up with this concept of care ethics”
EconTalk
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The Western Canon
Discussed“the earlier parts of my life, i spent a much higher percentage of my reading reading the kinds of books that would be in the back section of harold bloom's the western canon”
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On Human Nature
Discussed“one of my books i'm reading right now is uh on human nature by roger scrutin”
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Master and Man and Other Stories
Discussed“a conversation on uh master and man which i think is one of the greatest short stories ever written”
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Israel
Discussed“i'm reading israel concise history by uh daniel gordus my colleague”
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Eva Trout
Discussed“i have a fiction book which is very slow uh elizabeth bowen the anglo-irish writer ava trout her last joke don't know”
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The Voice Imitator
Discussed“and there's this book by thomas bernhard called the voice imitator their stimulator which is short stories that are only a paragraph long and they're in german”
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African Genesis
Discussed“so it would be his first book i think you've heard of is called african genesis and and the theme of it was very simple”
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The Territorial Imperative
Discussed“well he wrote a second book called the territorial imperative which was said i read that as a kid”
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Worlds in Collision
Discussed“i got to mention first have you read worlds in collision by emanuel velikovsky as a kid”
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The Passover Plot
Discussed“my dad gave me a book called the passover plot which was this fantastic attempt to explain the facts of jesus's life with as a conspiracy”
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The Myth of the Rational Voter
Discussed“i remember when i read uh brian kaplan or my former colleague your current colleague his book the myth of the rational voter”
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In the First Circle
Recommended“in the first circle by alexander sochninson”
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Adventurer
Recommended“it's a new book review copy leo damn rush adventurer the life and times of casanova which is a book about 18th century venice the enlightenment casanova himself and it's wonderful”
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The Last September
Recommended“last september is a fantastic book though i had to read that twice in a row to really absorb it took me a long time”
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Lost in Thought
Discussed“i learned this from a guest from my podcast named xena hits she wrote a book called lost in thought”
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The Hungry Soul
Recommended“i'm a big fan of the book by leon cass the hungry soul which deals with a lot of uh a lot of these issues”
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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American notes
Discussed“They also wrote a book called 'Generations'; it's about 550 pages of Anglo-American history.”
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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.”
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Originals
Discussed“Adam Grant writes eloquently about positive procrastination; one way to approach it is to consider whether it's rational procrastination.”
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The Organized Mind
Recommended“another book that's had a big impact on the way i think is called the organized mind by daniel leverton”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Barbarians at the Gate
Recommended“Yeah, it's worth watching. The book is excellent, focused next level.”
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The Obama Doctrine
Discussed“And um you know, if you read that Atlantic magazine interview called the Obama doctrine where Obama's interviewed, he lays it out.”
StarTalk Radio
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Chasing Space
Discussed“he's also an author chasing space a book a lot of our listeners may well be very familiar with”
Pod Save America
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Thank You for Your Servitude
Recommended“he has a new book coming out this july about dc's trump years called thank you for your servitude”
SmartLess
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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
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.”
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The Blind Side
Recommended“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
Recommended“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
Recommended“Some of his books have even become some of our favorite movies, such as The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short.”
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?”
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Terrible Honesty
Discussed“For example, in Chicago, a woman wrote a book about 20 years ago called, "Terrible Honesty" about Harlem in the 20s.”
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The Romance of Credit
Recommended“The view of the 20s, check it out, Jesse Sprague, "The Romance of Credit," or "Confessions of a Building Trades Contractor," they're marvelous.”
Big Technology Podcast
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Arriving Today
Recommended“He's a technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal and also the author of Arriving Today, From Factory to Front Door: Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy. It's a great book. You should go pick it up.”
