Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W02

“That's Phoebe Hoban who wrote a biography of Alice Neal. It's called The Art of not sitting pretty”

“Resh has been studying and writing about the Art Market for years. his latest book is called how to become a successful artist”

“If I wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul and it sells five million copies, now I want to write Chicken Soup for the Automobile, Chicken Soup for the Fountain Pen, Chicken Soup for the Computer Console; doesn't that make a certain amount of sense as opposed to the theory of shirking from the newfound creative identity?”

“And not even in vague locations, vague locations, yeah, vague locations and body parts, that's gonna be my name in my memoir.”

“I think there were ebbs and flows of it, yeah, but he, Peter Bogdanovich wrote this book about conversations he had with them, is it called the bearded [expletive] or some well story?”

“what was that book it was called your mother you want to look that one up yeah again Oscar nomani brings this book to us and it shows a whiteness contract with a devil tail and a hand reaching out and it says sign the contract”

“before the Federal Reserve was enacted before there was the creature from Jekyll Island before there was this larger kind of income tax levied against everyone else”

“I just want to recommend for people um there's a great book uh the easy way to quit smoking I tried everything to quit smoking Nothing worked But I read that book and it actually helped me”

“Tim's earlier segment on genderqueer reminded me heavily of a child called it poor kid was so starved he ate a used diaper”

“I just learned about this Kinsey guy this uh learned about a little while ago this sex doctor from the 1930s 40s 50s and Hugh Hefner was his student yeah and they were overtly attempting to sexualize college kids like they would go to college campus we are going to sexualize society So I guess we're still seeing this yeah”

“the general Union which you're not going to read about in the Occupy books because they will lie and claim it never happened were regular people sleeping intense living in the park”

“Ian you have so much more to unfold with Kinsey and look into John money they're Heroes to them and out sex ed is uh and our sex that is based off of it yeah John money's crazy yeah you're gonna love that yeah for real I worked with a guy named John money in La it's so funny really”

“And then she continues, or will my almost daily re-watching of Friends and rereading of Harry Potter hinder my ability to form 'normal' relationships in the long run?”

“I think they were at a swimming pool and everybody's jumping around having fun, and she's sitting by the pool reading Freakonomics. Oh my gosh, that's so cool, Stephen!”

“You know, I've been thinking about this recently for two reasons: one is I've been reading this book by Tolstoy called 'A Calendar of Days,' and it's kind of like this daily devotional.”

“Of course, in his classic work, The Interpretation of Dreams, which he wrote just at the dawn of the 20th century. For Freud, dreams were a matter of wish fulfillment. This is a way that we play out our unconscious impulses.”

“And I ended up writing a book about him; it was called Confessions of a Hero Worshiper, and it was about the notion of heroes. So I got to hang out with him, talk about this notion; well, what do you make of all this, Stephen? Did we answer this question about dreams and what they're good for?”

“There's a book out now; I really recommend it.”

“I'm reading here from a piece called 'Breaking Out of the Drama Triangle' by Sherry Steins. So I'm thinking, okay, this is going to be really helpful.”

“So there's a book by Janet Gallus and Bruno Frey; it's called Honors versus Money: The Economics of Awards. Obviously, there are awards in all these different parts of society: the state, arts and media, sports, religion—you get awards for volunteering and so on.”

“I know there's a linguist named Michael erard who wrote a book called um slips stumbles and verbal blunders and what they mean and he makes the interesting note that here I'll read a pit with a few exceptions people didn't really start talking about um or complaining about it until the Advent of voice recording”

“the theory was based on years of research showing that people who had certain personality traits which they grouped as type A like impatience and irritability were significantly more prone to heart attacks than those with more relaxed go with the flow type B personality traits in 1974 they published a book about their findings called type a behavior and”

“the theory was based on years of research showing that people who had certain personality traits which they grouped as type A like impatience and irritability were significantly more prone to heart attacks than those with more relaxed go with the flow type B personality traits in 1974 they published a book about their findings called type a behavior and”

“in the first half of the episode Angela briefly describes Pygmalion a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw that was adapted into the Tony award-winning musical my fair lady and a major Motion Picture starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison”

“English dramatist WS Gilbert wrote the play Pygmalion in galatea that was first performed in 1871 and a musical burlesque parody of the story premiered at London's gaiety theater in 1883.”

“I have been reading a book that you might love or you might hate and I would like to find out which one... The author is Tom Vanderbilt the book is called beginners The joy and transformative power of lifelong learning”

“the most famous version of this idea at least as far as I know comes from the British writer and satiris Alexander Pope who in his essay on criticism wrote a little learning is a dangerous thing drink deep or taste not the purion spring there shallow drafts intoxicate the brain and drinking largely sobers us again”

“I actually read this book winners take all which was a critique of this kind of billionaire philanthropy”

“There's a similar-ish book by Robert Reese who is a Stanford political scientist called just giving why philanthropy is failing democracy and how we can do better”

“There's a similar-ish book by Robert Reese who is a Stanford political scientist called just giving why philanthropy is failing democracy and how we can do better”

“Although drunk walking, we actually argued in Super Freakonomics, is more dangerous per mile than drunk driving, but that's a different story. Maybe for the person who's drunk, but maybe not for other people.”

“One of the most famous examples from the book Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein was about putting an image of a fly, a housefly, on a urinal in the airport. I think it was the airport in Amsterdam. Thaler and Sunstein didn't come up with this; they just thought it was a great example of the nudge framework, which is”

“In fact, I may be misremembering this, but I think I wrote a piece once about a young guy who was driving on a rural road in Maine and hit Stephen King with his car and almost killed Stephen King. I've read Stephen King's side of it in the book 'On Writing'. Yeah, exactly!”

“You know, when I was in high school, I read 'Candide'. Did you read 'Candide' by Voltaire? Let us go cultivate our garden.”

“There was a book by Gail Sheehy which was just at the time massively everywhere; it was particularly looking at the passage of time and aging from a female perspective, but it was called 'Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life.' That was 1976.”

“It's called 'Midlife: A Philosophical Guide,' and he makes the argument that while the midlife crisis was kind of overhyped for a while, and then found to be not as prevalent as it was thought to be at one point, he doesn't dismiss it. He says there's all kinds of good reasons why this might exist.”

“I'm reading this book on chasing happiness by Bertrand Russell, also a philosopher, who says more or less the same thing: 'Don't spend your whole life thinking about your own happiness; it's the surest recipe to be unhappy.'”

“I can't even remember, I was like incremental intelligence theory, there was some multi-syllabic, multi-word phrase and I believe she had to come up with some terminology when she was writing her first, last, only, at least for now, popular book for a lay audience, and you know, implicit theories of intelligence and you know, incremental versus whatever, these were”

“I can think of one book that I loved and saw the film, and I didn't hate it, and that was Angela's Ashes, which I thought was a pretty good film. I did not know that was a film.”

“But then I think of another book that I loved, Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. I love that book too, a great novel. Then the movie came out, and I can't remember that movie!”

“Stephen was perhaps thinking of 'chart junk', a term that Tufte coined in his 1983 book, 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information'. Tufte writes, 'The interior decoration of graphics generates a lot of ink that does not tell the viewer anything new.'”

“One of the earliest written versions of the phrase appears in Thomas Shelton's 1620 translation of Don Quixote, during a time when most pots and kettles were made from cast iron, which blackened when placed over a flame.”

“Wegner was directly inspired by a moment from Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 'Winter Notes on Summer Impressions,' one of his non-fiction pieces. Dostoevsky writes, 'Try to pose for yourself this task, not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.' Wegner was intrigued by this idea, prompting him”

“Yes I was talking to Dana Suskin who we both know she is a pediatric surgeon and she wrote this book called Parent Nation it's about what we have to do as a society to take care of all children and it's very much about the kids who are overlooked the kids who don't have advantages and Dana wrote a”

“Yes I was talking to Dana Suskin who we both know she is a pediatric surgeon and she wrote this book called Parent Nation it's about what we have to do as a society to take care of all children and it's very much about the kids who are overlooked the kids who don't have advantages and Dana wrote a”

“You tell a story in one of your books, called The Joy of X, about a time when your second grader asked you for help on a multiplication problem.”

“Please, I couldn't have a conversation with you without talking about cooking because you've written probably the craziest, in a good way, cookbook of all time. I actually have to make a confession; I picked up your book, and it was delivered to my office, and the only time I've ever hated you, Nathan, was when I decided that I”

“We had just written SuperFreakonomics; Stephen Dubner and I, our second book, and we had worked with a bunch of environmentalists on global warming. We had this chapter where we talked about global warming, and I think it was a thoughtful and honest chapter.”

“She's one of the heroes in Michael Lewis's book on the pandemic called 'The Premonition', but her work on COVID is just the tip of the iceberg.”

“I'm not sure whether you know that book, but roughly every first-time parent I know has three copies of it; one that they bought for themselves and two that were gifted to them by friends. And I suspect your book will be gifted much less frequently than 'What to Expect When You’re Expecting,' given people's discomfort with death.”

“So Will, do you remember how I came to blurb your book, Doing Good Better?”

“Even before that, as a precocious two-year-old, her nighttime ramblings while lying alone in bed were so remarkable that they were tape-recorded and analyzed, resulting in a book called 'Narratives from the Crib,' which is still in print today more than 30 years later, now with an introduction written by Emily Oster herself.”

“And so you decided, in the midst of all your academic success, but still young and untenured, to do something that many people would perceive as crazy: you decided to write a book for a non-academic audience on pregnancy, even though you’re an economist. That book, of course, was called 'Expecting Better.'”

“So 'Cribsheet,' which is your second book about child-rearing, is very much in the same spirit as 'Expecting Better,' but in many ways, I think it’s harder to write because the data are not nearly as extensive or as conclusive on child-rearing as they are on pregnancy. So how did you deal with that?”

“If you've read the book "Contact" written by Carl Sagan or seen the movie, Jill was the inspiration for the hero played in the movie by Jodie Foster.”

“Here's another question that was absolutely easy for me, but that I'm guessing might have been hard for you: which French economist, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, claims that increasing wealth inequality is a feature of capitalism and suggests steeply progressive capital taxes and a cap on the possible total wealth of a person in order to get”

“Oh okay, there was a group of people, mostly people who finished in the top 10 to 20, who did a little crowdsourced spreadsheet to see who got which of all the questions on the test, and for that sample I think a majority of the questions had 10 or 11 of us getting it correct, but the two that”

“In the meantime, if you want to learn more about Max's worldview, check out his book titled 'Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality.' This is a guy who definitely does not think small.”

“On this podcast, I put a huge emphasis on data analysis; in your book, you do not talk much about using data as a source of your insights. It seems to me your success has been more instinctual, that you just have a knack for seeing where the future is going and taking your companies in the right direction; is”

“Professor Cassandra Quave, an ethnobotanist at Emory University, tells her story in an amazing new memoir entitled The Plant Hunter. Her right leg was amputated when she was three years old, and a subsequent staph infection nearly killed her.”

“we fast forward a few centuries we got to introduce uh one of the most infamous guys in this conversation Thomas Malthus in 1798 he writes this thing he calls an essay on the principle of population”

“and David Pilates is an expert in this he wrote a book called missing 4-1-1 that was made into a documentary”

“he's host of Greg Kelly reports on Newsmax and he's author of the new book Justice for All how the left is wrong about law enforcement”

“No, Will was in my directorial debut, which was an adaptation of a David Foster Wallace book called Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Will was probably starring, one of the idiots probably headlining, name above title.”

“And you're making me think of Mark Manson's book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***. He talks about how one thing that makes people miserable is the idea that problems shouldn't exist.”

“Kevin is a New York Times best-selling author twice over, and his first Audible original, The Decision, was nominated for an Audi Award for best original audiobook.”

“uh moral Animal by Robert Wright the ape who understood the universe by Steve Stuart Williams is the number one primer the in fact just the ape who understood the universe by Steve Stuart Williams all you need is that book”

“on the back of your book here the optimism biased it says”