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Kara Swisher's book recommendations
Key facts
- Kara Swisher has recommended or discussed 5 books on podcasts, as of February 8, 2025.
- Kara Swisher has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of February 8, 2025.
- Those books came up in 3 episodes, as of February 8, 2025.
- The 3 books Kara Swisher has mentioned in the most episodes, as of February 8, 2025: Confederates in the Attic, North Woods and The Piano Tuner.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Kara Swisher aired on February 8, 2025.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Kara Swisher appears on, in one place — not just one.
Kara Anne Swisher is an American journalist who has covered the business of the internet since 1994, and as of 2023 was a contributing editor at New York Magazine, host of On with Kara Swisher, and co-host of Pivot. Swisher appeared on The Ezra Klein Show and the Big Technology Podcast, where she discussed her own work and recommended several books. On The Ezra Klein Show, she recommended Daniel Mason's novel NorthWoods, describing the history of a house and the people who lived in it, and mentioned reading Mason's The Piano Tuner. She also referenced Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic as a rumination on mortality and history. On the Big Technology Podcast, Swisher discussed her book Burn Book, mentioning that material from it might inform future writing, and reflecting on how tech leaders view their success as a meritocracy. Additionally, she brought up Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash while discussing an interview with the author regarding the origins of the metaverse concept.
Books Kara Swisher recommended or discussed
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Confederates in the Attic
Recommended“Tony Horwitz who is a friend of mine geraldine's a friend of mine um he he wrote Confederates in the attic and it's a beautiful rumination on mortality and history”
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North Woods
Recommended“um I love the book Northwoods by Daniel Mason um which came out last year uh which is about a house the history of a house and the people who lived in it”
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The Piano Tuner
Recommended“I'm reading the piano tuner right now I'm reading all his stuff”
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Burn Book
Discussed“I think I'll probably have a little bit of what's been in burn book at the end in it.”
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Snow Crash
Discussed“I just interviewed Neil Stevenson, who wrote Snow Crash, obviously, and his, which was where Metaverse came in. The first idea of Metaverse came in.”
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Books by Kara Swisher
Appearances
Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I'm fascinated with these, like, you know, I just interviewed Charles Duhigg, who did super communicators, and you have the atomic habits.”
“I'm fascinated with these, like, you know, I just interviewed Charles Duhigg, who did super communicators, and you have the atomic habits.”
“I’ve known him since he covered AOL. I wrote a couple of books on AOL.”
“And then this concept of yourself, you know, there’s a book coming out by Walter Isaacson that’s going to talk about his early life but it was, his father was quite brutal to him.”
“But they might own the rights to, but they don’t own the rights to all the books that Tom Clancy has written!”
“And that was, that’s I was like, oh, well, that’s that's like the Gutenberg Bible!”
“I was like oh well that's that's like the Gutenberg Bible that's like radio television except bigger and it's a worldwide network of information”