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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2022
May 2022 saw a diverse array of literary discussions across several prominent podcasts, focusing heavily on history, civilization, philosophy, and personal growth. On The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, Jordan Peterson expressed deep admiration for Vishal Mangalwadi's scholarship, specifically highlighting The Book that Made Your World and its companion volume This Book Changed Everything. During the same episode, Vishal Mangalwadi discussed David Gress's From Plato to NATO and Anthony B Wilson's Let There Be to explain historical misconceptions and the origins of modern vernacular languages in India. Huberman Lab featured a recommendation from the host, who encouraged listeners to explore Richard Phillips Feynman's What Do You Care What Other People Think? for its unique insights. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Jay Shetty recommended Simu Liu's memoir We Were Dreamers during an introductory segment. Meanwhile, The Daily Stoic hosted Drew Michael, who pointed to Charlie Kaufman's novel Antkind as an influential work. Finally, Modern Wisdom featured Jonathan Bi, who recommended Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love by Frederick Neuhouser to illustrate concepts surrounding social recognition and human desires. Together, these conversations highlighted how hosts and guests frequently turned to foundational historical texts, philosophical explorations, memoirs, and psychological works to help listeners better understand human behavior, cultural history, and personal achievement.
Behind the Bastards
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The Roots of Evil
Discussed“And now Stout is another Holocaust survivor and his he wrote a really good book called the origins of evil which goes over kind of what inspired perpetrators in a number of genocides.”
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On agriculture
Discussed“When he talked about being a farmer cuz he wrote a book about farming his farms were like they were like the plantations of the US south during slavery.”
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Living in the Crosshairs
Discussed“So, I'm I'm going to read a quote of like what these protests actually look like um from the book Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-abortion Terrorism.”
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The Liberian Civil War
Discussed“And I'm going to quote from the Liberian Civil Wars. The events that followed were captured on film by a Palestinian journalist representing a Middle Eastern news agency”
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The Redemption of an African Warlord
Discussed“The mysterious universe thing is based heavily on a book that he wrote after he became a bornagain Christian. His book titled the redemption of an African warlord is a pretty standard redemption narrative.”
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Lysistrata
Discussed“This is definitely definitely a a a story where the women are the ones who are much smarter and also very much like have you so Liz Estrada is this old Greek play about the Pelpeneisian war”
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Outrageous conduct
Discussed“I'm going to quote from the book outrageous conduct. Again, in these conversations, Foy would summarize the final scene, mentioning that there would be explosives, but assuring the parents that the explosives would be nowhere near the children.”
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Accidents in North American Climbing 2020
Recommended“And the American Alpine Club actually publishes a thing called accidents in North American climbing where climbers, oh okay, this person [ __ ] up like this and they did this and this and this and they were okay or they weren't okay.”
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The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Recommended“And and as much as anything, and you can read like um like uh Peter Carroll's book on the Abraham Lincoln brigade or something, a brigade uh uh battalion, sorry, they weren't actually brigade.”
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The Spanish Republic and Civil War
Recommended“And there are lots and lots of accounts of the of the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. Um Julian Kasanova's book is is one of my favorites if people want to read one.”
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Comrades and Commissars
Recommended“Um, Cecile Elb's book is another really good book about that if you want to read that.”
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Unintended consequences
Discussed“So, I received in the mail from a fan a couple of weeks ago a hardcover copy of a book called unintended consequences. Now, Sophie, Carl knows this book. Everyone who's in gun culture is aware of this book.”
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The Green Berets
Discussed“He writes this book, The Green Berets, which is like it's like on the bestseller list for more than a year. It's a huge hit.”
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Jesus and John Wayne
Discussed“In Jesus and John Wayne, Dumez writes, "As one working-class Vietnam veteran later recalled, he went to Vietnam to kill a Kami for Jesus Christ and John Wayne. It was sands of Euima that inspired Ron Kovic to volunteer for the Marines during the Vietnam War.”
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Born on the Fourth of July
Discussed“A war that would cost him the use of his legs and lead to a disenchantment with war that he chronicled in his memoir. Born on the 4th of July. Offscreen, too, Wayne worked to recruit young men to the war effort”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The World of Gurus
Discussed“in 1977 asia's then largest publisher v cass publishing house published his first book the world of gurus”
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When the New Age Gets Old
Discussed“his next two books when the new age gets old ivp 1992 and india the grand experiment hippa ran 1997 brought his work to the attention of american and european readers”
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India, the Grand Experiment
Discussed“his next two books when the new age gets old ivp 1992 and india the grand experiment hippa ran 1997 brought his work to the attention of american and european readers”
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The Book that Made Your World
Recommended“i recently read two of his newer books the book that made your world and thomas nelson 2011 and in what is some ways a companion volume and an extension this book changed everything sought after press media 2019”
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This Book Changed Everything
Recommended“i recently read two of his newer books the book that made your world and thomas nelson 2011 and in what is some ways a companion volume and an extension this book changed everything sought after press media 2019”
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From Plato to NATO
Recommended“it was of course later david grass his book from plato to nato that helped me understand why american universities had deceived themselves”
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Let There Be
Recommended“his book is called let there be india it's a big book the shorter version is still in print the bigger version we have to reprint”
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The Order of Things
Recommended“And I'm rereading The Order of Things. And The Order of Things, I would say if if you're writing a book about modeling as well as reading the neurophysiology of anxiety, The Order of Things is very much worth reading.”
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And there was light
Discussed“do you know jacques lesser that he wrote a book called and there was light he was that he was a he was a french resistance fighter and he wrote he wrote this very interesting autobiography”
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Life After Life
Discussed“i actually went and met with dr raymond moody who wrote the books on life after life and uh he did a lot of the work with near-death um people that had had”
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Unlocking the Zen koan
Discussed“a mentor of mine and a friend of mine dr thomas cleary wrote a book called zen koans he also translated the quran he's one of the brilliant translators of the of of our lifetime but he wrote a book called zen koans”
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Pinocchio
Discussed“That's really what happens to Pinocchio because we're going to watch part of the Pinocchio story. He starts out as a marionette.”
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Demonic males
Discussed“i ran across dr rangham's work back in 1996 he wrote a book with dale peterson demonic males very provocatively titled a study of aggression in primates including human beings and an analysis as well of sex differences”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Jagged Little Pill
Discussed“like kind of that like angry rock women of the 90s like alanis morissette jagged little pills one of my favorite records of all time”
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Darkness Visible
Discussed“darkness visible these are more a memoir of madness compelling harrowing a vivid portrait of a debilitating disorder it offers the solace of shared experience”
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Confessions of a Sociopath
Recommended“the uh a confession of a sociopath by m.e thomas a life spent hiding in plain sight it's a book i recommend a lot”
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As I Lay Dying
Discussed“Um, there is a book by Richard John Neuhaus, the theologian called As I Lay Dying. As I lay dying, Richard John Neuhaus; uh, he had stomach cancer and he thought he was dying, and he wrote this book as he lay dying, and then he recovered.”
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An American dilemma
Discussed“Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish economist who wrote about economic development, wrote a famous two-volume work, An American Dilemma, about the status of black Americans.”
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Nigger - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Discussed“my friend randall kennedy uh the law professor at harvard university has a book called nigger and he uses the word in the title of the book the history of a strange history of a of a provocative word it's something that there's a subtitle but the title of the book is n-i-g-g-e-r colon and then he has a subtitle”
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Slavery and social death
Recommended“That might be the thing worth really trying to understand, because the practice itself is, you know, there’s a wonderful book by the sociologist Orlando Patterson called Slavery and Social Death that was published in 1982, which is a comprehensive history and social analysis of the institution of slavery over 2500 years.”
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The Spiral of Silence
Recommended“i once read this book by a german political scientist called elizabeth neula neumann that was a the writer's name elizabeth noel neumann the book was called the spiral of silence”
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The Bitcoin Standard
Discussed“People should know that you've written the book "The Bitcoin Standard" from 2018, I believe.”
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Human Action
Discussed“In the 1940s, he wrote Human Action, which is a big treatise on economics.”
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The theory of money and credit
Discussed“and he developed a theory of money and um he wrote a book in 1912 called the theory of money and credit”
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Evolutionary Psychology : The New Science of the Mind
Discussed“You authored the textbook titled evolutionary psychology the new science of mind in its uh sixth edition”
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Why Women Have Sex
Discussed“you wrote a book called why women have sex understanding sexual motivations from adventure to revenge”
EconTalk
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Curious
Discussed“I liked the book so much as well as his writing on Substack, where he has a column called The Ruffian that I recommend, that I read another book of his called Curious, which is our subject for today.”
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Cogs and Monsters
Discussed“now that's part of economics but in terms of thinking about what makes us happy which i think is a big underlying theme your book we're going to talk about what's progress what do we really deeply care about it seems to me that that it's true”
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Monsters
Discussed“now that's part of economics but in terms of thinking about what makes us happy which i think is a big underlying theme your book we're going to talk about what's progress what do we really deeply care about it seems to me that that it's true”
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If this is a Man
Discussed“i was recently talking to dwayne betts uh the poet and an author about we were talking about it hasn't aired yet but primo levy's book um if this is a man and followed by the truce and then also ralph ellison's book invisible man which is a novel”
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Juneteenth
Discussed“and his his second novel juneteenth uh was never completed but famously as he was working on it and delayed and delayed and delayed it was like the whole manuscript burned in the fire”
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The Periodic Table
Discussed“he eventually writes a number of books the most well known after these two are is the one called the periodic table drawing on his chemistry experience and also it's also a different kind of memoir it's a it's a wonderful book i really like it”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Die Kunst Der Fuge, BWV 1080 ; Art of Fugue
Discussed“He was literally, had his pen in his hand, writing a textbook called "Die Kunst der Fuge," "The Art of Fugue," when he croaked.”
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Male Sexuality
Discussed“So I ended up going to therapy with a guy named Bernie Zilbergeld, who wrote a book called 'Male Sexuality.'”
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The Fiber Fueled Diet Plan for Dummies
Recommended“if you have not yet checked out Dr. B's first book, "Fiber Fueled", it's a must read.”
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The Plant Power Doctor
Recommended“The new book is "The Plant Power Doctor" available everywhere. Pick it up, it is quite an accomplishment, a beautiful book, beautiful photographs, plenty of recipes, but amazing takeaways to improve your life on the daily.”
Huberman Lab
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On Death and Dying
Discussed“Some of these arise from the pioneering work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a psychologist who authored the famous book on death and dying.”
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What Do YOU Care what Other People Think?
Recommended“If you haven't already read 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman' or 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?,'”
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Chatter
Discussed“Interestingly, there's a book I confess I haven't read, but I had a discussion with a psychologist from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ethan Kross, who wrote 'Chatter.' It focuses on how so much of our inner dialogue is, indeed, negative.”
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Atomic Habits
Discussed“BJ Fogg has done great work, and then James Clear wrote a book about habits and has a popular newsletter regarding them.”
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Spark
Discussed“He wrote a book called 'Spark,' which was one of the early academic books about brain plasticity and the relationship between exercise and movement.”
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Mechanisms of Memory
Discussed“In fact, there is a beautiful review that was published in the journal Neuron, Cell Press journal, excellent journal, called Mechanisms of Memory Under Stress. And I just want to read to you the first opening paragraph of this review.”
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Photographic Memory
Discussed“The title of this paper is photographic memory, the effects of our volitional photo taking on memory for visual and auditory aspects of an experience.”
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The Nature of the Beast
Recommended“In the meantime, I want to direct your attention to his recently released book titled 'The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us.'”
SmartLess
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Mr. and Mrs. American Pie: The Inspiration for Palm Royale Seasons One and Two
Discussed“it's a show uh based on the book mr and mrs american pie takes place in 1969 and palm beach”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Start with no
Discussed“and then in 2002 much later i run across jim camp's book start with no and he talked about effectiveness in business negotiation helping your counterpart discover the best answer”
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Winning
Discussed“i read in your book winning the unforgiving race to greatness chapter 12.”
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LifePass
Discussed“because i i read in i read in your book you know there's certain pain points we encounter where we realize okay i can solve this problem”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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We Were Dreamers
Recommended“And I just want to say to everyone who's listening or watching right now, I highly recommend that you go and grab a copy of this book.”
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To the bone
Discussed“And a week later I got the script for this movie To the Bone where I play a character who's suffering with eating disorders.”
The Daily Stoic
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Discussed“I've read this really good book called adult children of emotionally immature oh it was very I meant to tell you you emailed me about that book I bought it and read it”
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Bittersweet
Discussed“Susan Kane who I love her new book is called bittersweet and she's sort of talking about how Melancholy is that kind of depressive outlet”
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Antkind
Recommended“the most one is ant kind by Charlie Kaufman and the other is trust me I'm lying by you”
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The Slight Edge
Discussed“Let's see, "Atomic Habits." I'm currently reading "The Slight Edge." I haven't heard of that.”
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Everything Happens for a Reason
Discussed“Her book is titled 'Everything Happens for a Reason,' with a subtitle along the lines of 'Things You Should Never Say to Someone with Cancer.' There's no value in wasting time feeling upset—such negativity is wasted energy.”
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How to Keep Your Cool
Recommended“this is another little translation of senica that I like this is called how to keep your cool by James ROM”
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How to Die
Recommended“James ROM has this translation of senica which I love called how to die”
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The Night of the Gun
Discussed“We have these memories of how stuff went, and then when you actually revisit them—there's a great book by David Carr called 'A Night of the Gun' or something like that.”
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The Way to Love
Discussed“And then getting turned on to your books and then Robert Greene and, you know, early on like books like Anthony de Mello's 'The Way to Love', and all these different...”
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Awareness the Way to Love (Awareness The Way To Love)
Discussed“and then getting turned on to your books and then robert greene and and you know early on like books like anthony demelo is like the way to love and and all these different you know it just it became very clear that the guys in sobriety that i would looked up to seem to be hip to these these”
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Outdoor Kids in an Inside World
Discussed“and you talk about in the outdoor book”
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A Sand County Almanac
Discussed“his most famous work is sand county almanac right which is a which was basically a collection of things that he had written during the sort of dark ages of american wildlife which is around the 1920s”
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People Love Dead Jews
Recommended“She's a new book out. Oh, you should Hopefully this is in your bookstore. It's called People Love Dead Jews. Just won some big awards.”
Modern Wisdom
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Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
Recommended“excellent book written by by the professor i studied with called rousseau's theodicy”
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Dead in the Water
Recommended“and check out dead in the water look at father's day is coming up if if you know someone in your life who loves sort of crazy yarns about life on the open sea um you know this is definitely one of those”
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The Mask of Sanity
Discussed“and this this debate actually goes back a long way to the 1940s and 50s when herv collectly first published his book on the mask of sanity how to identify a psychopath”
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Vanished Smile
Discussed“Oh yeah, that the Mona Lisa I didn't realize this, I read a book Vanished Smile, that the Mona Lisa was just an ordinary painting”
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Future Tense
Recommended“The book will be linked in the show notes below as well, Future Tense. I really like this.”
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Welcome to the Universe in 3D
Discussed“welcome to the universe in 3d which is the new book that you've got out”
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Welcome to the Universe
Discussed“so that's actually the fourth in a series of welcome to the universe books”
The Book Review
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion
Discussed“her new book is the great stewardess Rebellion how women launched a workplace Revolution at 30,000 feet”
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Role Models
Recommended“I've read his book Role Models which came out a few years ago and is a series of essays about well people who he admires”
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The man who loved children
Recommended“and he reminded me of Christina studs The Man Who Loved children which I've been meaning to read for about I think 25 years now so I've put that at the top of the pile”
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Chéri and The End of Chéri
Discussed“Rachel Koo joins us to discuss her new translation of two novels by Colette Shere and the end of Sheree”
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Tasha
Recommended“the book again is Tasha a son's Memoir by Brian Morton”
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Four Treasures of the Sky
Recommended“so I'm reading four treasures of the Sky by an author named Jenny tingu Zang”
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Our Lady of the Flowers
Discussed“I was much more interested in Reading Our Lady of the flowers I read William Burrows Edward Alby certainly Tennessee Williams”
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Tacky
Discussed“I reviewed this great book which made me happy the entire time I was reading it's called it's called tacky Love Letters to the worst culture we have to offer by Rex king”
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The Last Days of Roger Federer
Discussed“I reviewed a book by Jeff Dyer called the last days of Roger Federer”
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
Discussed“his new book is the man who invented motion pictures a true tale of obsession murder and the movies”
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The butcher boy
Discussed“what I found interesting about this in terms of my own trajectory as a reader is that I had read back in I believe it was the 90s his novel The Butcher Boy which was kind of a sensation at the time it was the first book of his published in the US”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Us
Discussed“talk about his new book called us everything in between”
Timcast IRL
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The Plot Against the King
Discussed“I'm looking forward to the show and thanks for the book cash this is cool looking man I'm glad you're the wizard we have to be creative I am looking forward to reading this kid's book it seems delightful”
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Johnny the Walrus
Discussed“well and look at you had Amazon insiders complaining about Matt Walsh's book Johnny The Walrus being number one and if I'm not mistaken they were actually trying to de-rank that”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Disturbing the Peace
Discussed“It's the name of a vaclav havel uh book length interview from like 1988 disturbing the peace”
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The Plot Against the President
Recommended“i believe actually lee smith who wrote probably the the the book on this called the plot against the president and he actually nailed this he actually nailed in his book that came out”
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One Damn Thing After Another
Discussed“Uh we're going to dig into his book next, One Damn Thing After Another, and it certainly is.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die
Recommended“like i just read this bookPum the five things you must know before you die by john izzoPand he interviewedPum all people on their deathbed from all different walks of life all different cultures creeds all different levels of intelligence”
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The Secret
Discussed“because that was the big complaint about uh i never read the uh the reacher books”
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Point of Impact
Discussed“and then he did tears of the sun he's done magnificent seven equalizer shooter which is based on stephen hunter's book point of impact”
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Rumble Fish
Recommended“well from the time he was a teenager a whole life you know he was in that outsiders with johnny depp those pictures are so fantastic those elements from that yeah the book is great too for people who haven't read the book outsiders and rumblefish also”
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The Billionaire and the Mechanic
Recommended“but there's a great book called the billionaire in the mechanic about the how he got the the america's cup and it's it's so fun so fantastic to read”
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Backcountry Bowhunting
Discussed“i've had two other books backcountry trophy her weight bow hunting trophy blacktail was in 1999 and back country bow hunting was in 2006.”
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Trophy Blacktails
Discussed“i've had two other books backcountry trophy her weight bow hunting trophy blacktail was in 1999 and back country bow hunting was in 2006.”
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Game Changers
Discussed“well it's like he he watched that documentary on netflix game changers”
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Confederates in the Attic
Discussed“because i've read my friend hank turned me on to uh the book about cabeza de baca is it a strange place that's what it's called a place so strange I think it's a place so strange alan so strange that's it”
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Mommie Dearest
Discussed“um it was a movie about an old-timey movie star tommy dearest mommy dearest yeah um joan crawford john crawford old-timey movie star was apparently out of her [__] mind and she would like beat the [__] out of her kid and scream at him and torture him and the whole thing is about how america loved her about what”
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The Parasitic Mind
Discussed“that's the difference between a peer-reviewed paper and what you write which by the way i want to give you a copy of the parasitic mind with a autograph”
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The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature
Discussed“and they have a record called philosophy of the world and it's three sisters who absolutely can't play music”
This Week in Startups
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Weapons of Math Destruction
Discussed“it's been biased fica because it's been working on data it was called you know the weapons of maths destruction when they did the analytics they didn't really take into consideration the diversity of the demographic”
No Stupid Questions
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Discussed“And then she continues, or will my almost daily re-watching of Friends and rereading of Harry Potter hinder my ability to form 'normal' relationships in the long run?”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Imaginable
Recommended“She's also the author of three books on the topic, the most recent of which is called 'Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything,' even things that seem impossible today.”
Pod Save America
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A Clockwork Orange
Discussed“ultramaga kind of reminded me of of Clockwork Orange yeah Ultra violence sure I wonder if that was intentional”
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This Will Not Pass
Recommended“joining us now New York Times National political correspondent and co-author with Alex Burns of the Blockbuster New York Times bestseller this will not pass Jonathan Martin welcome to the Pod man”
Acquired
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The PIMS Principles
Discussed“and what i saw in brooks there was a book that was meaningful to me when i was at pillsbury the pims principles and one of the highest roi businesses were lower price point consumable items”
Build with Leila Hormozi
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Wooden on Leadership
Recommended“he's wrote a book on leadership and i find it it's a great book i guess if you're in sports i don't know because i've not um i don't have time experience in sports but it is one for one relevant for business”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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59 Seconds
Discussed“if this is important what's the evidence which was underpinned by the 59 seconds book”
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Hallucinogens and Culture
Discussed“The connection to LSD and language and I think even more so with mushrooms because you're probably familiar with an essay I think by Henry Munn that was published in a book called uh I think it was by Peter Furst called Hallucinogens and Culture. This was around 1970. There's a wonderful chapter in there called The Mushrooms of Language.”
StarTalk Radio
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The Cosmic Landscape
Recommended“this goes back to it links to something called the string landscape which leonard suskind actually wrote a great book called the cosmic landscape a while ago detailing this theory”
Conversations with Tyler
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Development projects observed
Discussed“i think i mean development projects observed is probably like a whole set of volumes written by people of his of that generation and maybe the next generation”
