Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W15

“Her name is Olga Hazan and she is the author of Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider and Insider World. But she wrote several articles about trying to change her own personality.”

“I really like a particular Hunter S. Thompson book called 'The Great Shark Hunt', where he covers the Ruben Salazar murder by LAPD or LA Sheriff's Department in Boyle Heights in the '70s. His relationship with his lawyer, Oscar Acosta, and that whole saga is great. 'Fear and Loathing' I like, but not as much as his straightforward reporting.”

“There was this book— Yeah. called 'Vagabonding in America' by an old hobo Ed Buryn. I read this and it just basically, some of it was outdated. They had stuff in there like the hobo code, like, oh, this moniker on the side of a fence means this person has free soup or something like that.”

“There’s a great, great book referenced in this same article, written by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, called 'Development as Freedom,' which essentially backs up what we’re discussing.”

“None other than William Masters of Masters and Johnson’s fame said that women should use the drug to avoid falling into the third sex or the neutral gender, which is very off-base to say the least.”

“Yeah, there was a lot of infighting in feminism at the time—there was the Old Guard, kind of personified by Betty Friedan, who wrote The Feminine Mystique, who was kind of opposed to the gay contingent, which she called the Lavender Menace, which she believed prevented mainstream society from accepting feminism and seeing it as credible.”

“This is from a book called 'The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic' by Chalmers Johnson, who was also the author of 'Blowback'. Listen to this; this is something I look at often, and I wanted to share it with you, Tim.”

“This is from a book called 'The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic' by Chalmers Johnson, who was also the author of 'Blowback'. Listen to this; this is something I look at often, and I wanted to share it with you, Tim.”

“Hi, this is from Michigan and I would like to know if you, Charles, have read the Discworld books! Ah, yes!”

“Yeah, there's a saying that I've read—a book called The Shallows about what social media does to us—but it was: you are what you do repeatedly, you are what you think repeatedly, and we all—at least I do—and did for a long time—wake up and just start the record and the monologue that's happening in your head.”

“Jamie is also an active philanthropist who has funded leadership training in more than 100 prisons and shelters across the United States and has donated over $40 million in product and funds to help women face the effects of cancer with confidence. Jamie is donating 100% of her author proceeds from her new book, Worthy, to charity as well.”

“Uh, Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of 'On Stalin's Team,' which is a book about said team, prefers this word; she uses the term team, but notes, 'quote, alternatives are available.'”

“Writing about this in the book 'Bloodlands,' historian Timothy Snyder claims the only national minority that was highly overrepresented at the end of the NKVD during the Great Terror were the Georgians—Stalin's own.”

“So here's how Knight describes Lavrentiy as an adolescent in the book Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant, ‘Beria was a mediocre student, not excelling in any subject but considered cunning and devious.’”

“The book he wrote with Raymond Hull was called 'The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong.' It wound up selling millions of copies. The book was meant to say corporate strategy.”

“And in the book, you say something along the lines of humans are reacting like waves are everywhere in human life; this is just the latest wave.”

“I always get these guys confused with this particular statement; they said books are going to be bad because nobody's going to memorize information anymore, and that was the basis for being a learned person back then.”

“I was so inspired that I went and bought this book called 'How Japan Saved American Fashion.' I read it, and I learned all about the culture of Japan.”

“The Her Foundation had this report, the 2025 Project, and in it, they talk about how the next conservative administration has to obviously sign a national abortion ban if they can get it through Congress. But even if they can't, yes, they want to go after mifepristone.”

“This is perhaps a an opportunity to um put a call out there's a a wonderful book I think an important book that isn't so well known in the in the array of quote unquote military and seal books, um which is the book about Adam Brown.”

“One of the most important books in my life in the last 12 years has been Joseph Campbell's 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces' for the back end of the hero's journey, and I haven't read it.”

“But also, I mean, I read Sam Harris's first book, 'The End of Faith' in 2006, and so I've followed him for 15 years, religiously read all of his books.”

“I don't know him personally, so public stuff notwithstanding, that's not important to me, but 'Waking Up' and I took an online course with Robert Wright, who wrote 'Why Buddhism is True.'”

“Like to use David Epstein's book title, right? It's range.”

“I think I was in fifth or sixth grade; uh, I was Templeton the rat in a production of Charlotte's Web!”

“I was reviewing your book today, "Breaking the Spell," and that’s really the domain that I wanted to discuss, although I'm perfectly happy to branch out from that in anywhere that our conversation takes us.”