Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W38

“And that he is the one person in the world that could write on my book, 'Loving What Is.' Oh gosh, how do I tell this story?”

“I read an entire book on kinesiology when I was in high school, and they said, 'Damn, if I didn't love astrophysics so much, I'd be a kinesiologist!' It was like it was physics applied to the human body in ways that I was just so fascinated by.”

“So he took money that in retrospect I realized he didn't always have, and he paid us handsomely, for our age, to sit and study and to read Aesop's Fables when we were really young and then to get on to more sophisticated things later.”

“It was very difficult for me to see, even as somebody coming from a house full of books, why at that age I was reading Wuthering Heights, for example.”

“So, my dad, when one of the—I mean this is probably a little bit cliché or maybe obvious to some of your listeners, but when I was 15 or 16 and my best friend and I were studying all the time with my dad and we were navigating our social context and trying to figure out how to manage and”

“For my dad, like enormously impactful books for him were like Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, which I have to admit I used to talk to him about Maimonides and stuff, but I never actually read.”

“Basically, before the age of 10, the story that we’ve always understood from him was that in a neighbor's house, he came across a copy of Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy.”

“And I was reading lately, I've been reading David Halberstam's book, The Children, on the sit-in movement.”

“And that's actually really one of the main arguments in my second book, Self-Portrait in Black and White.”

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