Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W06

“Like I would do the books; if I was the only audience, it would be very different.”

“So they published a study in 1968 called Pygmalion in the Classroom, and again they named it after Pygmalion because in that story from Ovid, the sculptor Pygmalion sculpts a beautiful woman, falls in love with her, and loves the statue so much that the goddess Venus says, "I'm going to make you a real-life person."”

“There was a book—a series of young adult mystery books.”

“But first, political congressional reporter and author of Inside Congress, Daniela Diaz, on Republican infighting in Congress and the failed vote to impeach Biden's Homeland Security Secretary.”

“I’m trying to think of the book called 'The Big Sort' that came out a few years ago; I’m trying to think of the author now.”

“The closest analog, sometimes uses submarines and we actually did we read some submarine books and we found a case of a guy who at least claimed he tuned the oxygen up or down to like adjust mood in the submarine.”

“Uh, the founding text or at least one of them of rationalism is a 66,000-word Harry Potter fanfic that is just nonsense.”

“It's like the, uh, what was it? 50 Shades of Grey, how it was originally a Twilight fanfic?”

“And there's going to be like a, uh, Cloud Atlas-esque, you know?”

“Just thinking culturally too, it was like VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic. Flowers in the Attic, reading those on like the beach at the Jersey Shore, or like on the trolley to work.”

“I read this book, I think it's called like Wild and Crazy Guys! And it's just a little nonfiction book about this, that span of time where like, it's like Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Dan, it's like all of when they all were blowing up and what movies got made and whatever!”

“So Bryn, this question better be true about mushrooms being the largest organism because I wrote about that in my book I put out a couple years ago, so I’m listening!”

“We have a future guest on this podcast named Cal Newport; he wrote the book Deep Work, and he has another book called The World Without Email. He's a computer science professor at Georgetown where he talks extensively about the tremendous career, but also relationship and life value of doing essentially what you're describing.”

“As a graduate student, I had a little book titled 'Advice for Young Investigators' by Romonica Hall in my desk drawer. It offered whimsical anecdotes and pertinent insights but was also filled with misogynistic overtones that glamorously depicted workaholic tendencies.”

“There's a book called that, right? Everybody Poops! Yeah, remember that book?”

“That's the only, that's the only thing that I look at and I think, ah, because it got reviewed well, it's written by, I think, the best living playwright at the moment, you know, or certainly young living playwright called Jez Butterworth, who wrote Jerusalem and The Ferryman and Mojo, but then also wrote Skyfall and Spectre and Indiana Jones.”

“That's the only, that's the only thing that I look at and I think, ah, because it got reviewed well, it's written by, I think, the best living playwright at the moment, you know, or certainly young living playwright called Jez Butterworth, who wrote Jerusalem and The Ferryman and Mojo, but then also wrote Skyfall and Spectre and Indiana Jones.”