Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W25

“The following is a conversation with Jonathan Reisman, a physician and the writer of "The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy."”

“The following is a conversation with Douglas Murray, author of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity, and his most recent book, The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason.”

“Also partly because of having seen bits of it in the Middle East and elsewhere. I mention this because Grossman in the middle of Life and Fate takes time out and provides a three-page explanation, a three-page description of anti-Semitism.”

“Oh, The Leopard, obviously—the Leopard of Giuseppe di Lampedusa.”

“I remember I got far too young in age; I read the Doors of Perception of Aldous Huxley.”

“Um, I mean that's one of my favorite books, Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, including the descriptions of what it was like trying to have sex in pre-First World War Vienna.”

“We kind of just kept dating, and then a few weeks in I went back to his apartment, and there was literally a huge book on his glass table. I opened it up, and it was called 'Gym Launch Secrets.' I was like, 'Oh, you're serious; you're starting a company?'”

“You know, as I mentioned, I saw American Buffalo, and I saw, uh, Gerard Carmichael's new special, 'Rathaniel,' which absolutely blew me away!”

“For example, there's a good book called 'Yoga Body' that will challenge people's notions of yoga.”

“what's that? I don't know, White Fang; it's like, I think it's based on a Jack London book. And I've got you, I think he may have Ethan Hawke when he was younger!”

“Oh, so it's based on a New York Times best-selling novel by an author named Jack Carr. Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL and my buddy Jared. When I did a film called Zero Dark Thirty...”

“It really is beautiful, and I remember in my second book, 'The Stress Solution,' I wrote about it–this idea that Ikigai is these four things.”