Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W27

“You've looked back at the predecessors and the history in writing your book; is there some way in which the KGB is grounded in the culture, the spirit, the soul of its predecessors? Oh, absolutely.”

“You know, I wanted to see Paris because I had fallen in love with Honore Balzac, who wrote- Balzac, yeah. A phenomenal set of novels that I just ate up.”

“Interestingly enough, the first book I was given to read was the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Oh, so understand, yeah, that's interesting.”

“And she gave me a book, 'Winnie the Pooh,' because we went to see the movie. And then she wrote the dedication, she says, 'To the nicest German I've ever met.'”

“On that same note, Nicholas Lenson says, in Scott Kelly's book, Endurance, he mentions that an astronaut who has to wear glasses during a spacewalk—contact lenses weren't an option—had to glue his glasses to his head during his spacewalk to prevent them from falling.”

“Uh, learn to barbecue from Aaron Franklin, skateboarding from Anthony Tony, or learn songwriting and producing from Alicia Keys.”

“I just read his book; I didn't get a chance to meet him, so I'm jealous, right?”

“We were working on some, you know, Holden Caulfield, you know what, uh, Catcher in the Rye scenes, you know, other scenes that he worked at because we were trying to get me an agent and so forth, right?”

“And so now I just say, "[ __ ] it," I just yeah, it'll come back to me in five or ten minutes. Who wrote Tom Sawyer?”

“Matt and Gary, thank you so much for being here, and I know today we're talking about your book, The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge.”