Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W08

“He's the author and illustrator of the amazing blog called 'Wait But Why,' and is the author of a new book coming out tomorrow called 'What's Our Problem: A Self-Help Book For Societies.'”

“I remember reading a book that talked about hiking the Appalachian Trail. You might miss those hot showers for a bit, but after a few months or years, you'd get used to it.”

“The dream is to have the good overpower the bad — have you ever read the Culture Series by Iain Banks? Not yet, but I get criticized daily by mutual friends for not having done so, and I feel like a lesser man as a result.”

“It's very complex. Ezra Klein has a great book, 'Why We're Polarized,' where he talks about a lot of this.”

“He has written for publications such as Colette and The Daily Telegraph, and his book, 'An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West', is a Sunday Times bestseller.”

“This discussion can be fairly brief because abundant data now show—and this is beautifully described in the book titled 'Jaws: A Hidden Epidemic,' written by my colleagues Paul Ehrlich and Sandra Kahn at Stanford School of Medicine.”

“Now, would you and Thoreau have been friends for a long time? We did a very, very sleepy production of The Three Sisters. Anton Chekhov?”

“Oh, at the Belasco, if you can get tickets, if you can get tickets, it's called Good Night, Oscar. Good Night, comma, Oscar starring, Good Night, these are our Sean Hayes.”

“I totally agree. That was from 'David and Goliath' by Malcolm Gladwell.”

“You don’t have to wait a year; however, I have a book called Eight Weeks to Health. There we go with a program where you start by walking for 10 minutes a day and add five minutes each week. You're quite right that a big mistake people make is trying to implement global change, and then they give up.”