Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W04

“Right, and in the world of the life-changing magic of tidying up and the world that kind of called forth Marie Kondo to write a book about how we accumulate like so much crap in our lives, I mean we have so much crap.”

“By the way, I remember the day that I was reading John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and I hated, did you read that book?”

“That’s what some people thought; I think that's what Edgar Allan Poe thought too. You kidding me?”

“There was a book written in 1988 by Harry MacLean, a crime writer called In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri. There was a documentary, just a few years ago in 2019, called No One Saw a Thing. Of which I watched the first episode.”

“Great episode on that, guys; I read the book a few years ago. To answer a question you had about the 11:00 p.m. start time, as I recall, you're correct in their desire to employ the cover of darkness. There was also another, probably more important issue that led to that decision; per my recollection of the book, it was”

“Joining us today is the Vice Chair of the January 6 Committee and author of the new book, 'Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,' former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney. Welcome to Pod Save America!”

“The predatory value-seeking, goal-oriented side of the equation, which is what you say in 12 Rules for Life: go make something of yourself and become a better person. And all of the good things that happen downstream of that, that is the predatory side of the equation.”

“I believe it was, but he has a lesser-known book that is still sold millions of copies called 'How to Stop Worrying and Start Living,' which includes a lot of stoic tenets.”

“That is the generalized theory of critical race theory as proposed by for example, Richard Delgado in their book on critical race theory that has taken a softer form that we refer to as DEI.”