Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W50

“I mean, here's the example he gave in, I'm reading his book right now, about how therapists can better understand and create response expectancies. So he tells the story of not liking spicy food.”

“There’s a book I read called Turning Oil into Salt, and I forgot the two authors—co-authors of that—where that made a fascinating point.”

“It is laid out in gripping detail by author Kate Moore in her book, The Radium Girls. I was like, why do I know that?”

“You've never read the book 'A Drink with Shane MacGowan'? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.”

“His books include Liars Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, Flash Boys, and now, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.”

“My first book report was on Stephen King's 'Misery' when I was in kindergarten, and I read really early on.”

“I would carry around Bullfinch's Mythology with me all the time or giant stacks of X-Men comic books or the complete works of Shakespeare and just read voraciously.”

“So I was reviewing your book, 'Doom', this morning, and I've been wanting to talk to you about it for a long time.”

“The Book of Revelation, for example, are in part attempts to structure our apprehension of what you would call the eternal apocalypse and to also help us determine practically and politically how that might be at least staved off, although perhaps even managed more comprehensively.”

“I should be clear: I haven't watched the movie, but I read the book American Prometheus.”

“And to help us sound smart for once, we are joined by Zoe Schiffer; she is the managing editor at Platformer, an excellent site, and the co-author of the forthcoming book 'Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter.' You can pre-order it today, I imagine, right?”

“No, it’s actually a really great illustration of what Steven Pressfield calls the resistance, right?”

“I just—my dream is to have like a book—a coffee table book of people's unused acceptance speech!”