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Every book Riva Tez recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Riva Tez has recommended or discussed 9 books on podcasts, as of October 18, 2023.
- Riva Tez has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of October 18, 2023.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of October 18, 2023.
- The 3 books Riva Tez has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 18, 2023: The Aeneid, The immortalist and The Odyssey.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Riva Tez aired on October 18, 2023.
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Riva Tez’s most recommended books
- The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro
- The immortalist by Alan Harrington
- The Odyssey by Homer
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Codex sinaiticus by Constantin von Tischendorf
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Vasari's Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Riva Tez's appearance on How I Write portrays her as an independent thinker with a profound appetite for foundational classics, historical research, and provocative literature. Preferring active, deep learning over passive media consumption, Tez frequently champions foundational texts, noting that she would rather read Homer's Odyssey a hundred times than watch Netflix, and placing Virgil's Aeneid among the crucial classical works that explore timeless human drives. Exploring themes of longevity and human potential, she recommends Alan Harrington's The Immortalists to imagine a society stripped of mortality. Tez also discusses her ongoing engagement with Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, noting that she has repeatedly revisited the novel over the years to extract new insights. Furthermore, she demonstrates a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity by discussing Constantin von Tischendorf's discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus in the context of ancient manuscript history, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists in relation to her mother's art historical research, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer for its raw emotional honesty, and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho to defend edgy, transgressive fiction. Through these diverse works, Tez outlines an intellectual life built on rigorous reading, historical inquiry, and uncompromising individual thought.
Books recommended by Riva Tez
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The Aeneid
The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro is a foundational classical epic poem that follows the Trojan hero Aeneas as he travels to Italy and lays the groundwork for the founding of Rome.
Recommended“And if you read Euripides, Or like poetry, if you read the Odyssey, right, which I'm sure you have, or the Aeneid. In that, which is in my, on my mind, like the next, like the next level of foundational books after like the Bible”
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The immortalist
The Immortalist is a philosophical and speculative book by Alan Harrington that investigates the human desire to conquer death and imagines what society might look like in the absence of mortality.
Recommended“There's a great book actually called Alan by Alan Harrington called The Immortalists. You just talks about what society would look like if you'd, if you'd like, got rid of mortality”
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey by Homer is an epic ancient Greek poem that follows the arduous ten-year journey of Odysseus as he attempts to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, encountering mythical creatures, divine wrath, and numerous trials along the way.
Recommended“Like, I'd rather read the Odyssey a hundred times than watch Netflix. Like, I am not looking for passive entertainment.”
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American Psycho
American Psycho is a controversial and satirical 1991 horror novel by Bret Easton Ellis that explores the hyper-materialistic, ultra-violent life of Wall Street yuppie and serial killer Patrick Bateman.
Discussed“Like Bret Easton Ellis, like when they wrote American Psycho, it was also like an edgy book, right, like it glorifies violence, all this kind of stuff, but it's fiction.”
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a sweeping philosophical novel that champions objectivism, laissez-faire capitalism, and individual achievement while depicting a dystopian society collapsing under the weight of excessive government controls.
Discussed“I think we've had this conversation previously, which is that I've probably read Atlas Frye, like every two years, but like 15 years. Right. And I look back and I wish that I'd understood it better as a teenager”
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Codex sinaiticus
Discussed“And the oldest New Testament, there's lots of fragments of the New Testament, but the oldest claiming New Testament, like entire copy, um, Codex, the Codex Sinaiticus, which was discovered in the late 19th century by a biblical researcher called Constantine Tischendorf”
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of narrative poems in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer that details the tales told by a diverse group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury.
Discussed“William Morris did the Canterbury Tales. Like, have you seen these books? Oh, it's just so beautiful.”
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Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller is a landmark autobiographical novel renowned for its raw, unfiltered depiction of bohemian life in Paris and its boundary-pushing approach to sexuality and human experience.
Discussed“I read The Tropic of Cancer the other day. You read Tropic of Cancer, it's like, it goes from extreme explicitness, it's like a train of thought of like a man.”
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Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Discussed“It's currently studying Vasari's lives as an artist, like an account of like 16th century Italian artists. And one of the ones she's studying is Masaccio”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Riva Tez: Becoming A Free Thinker | How I Write | 2023-10-18 | 9 |