Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W28

“There was a guy, forgive me, I can't remember his name, Jesse, who wrote the book 'Bowling Alone' back in '95, around that time. He talked about how our society was getting more and more fragmented and isolated from each other, staying at home and watching TV too much, not going out to join the bowling league.”

“I'll watch some of these press conferences; it reminds me of a book they made me read in college called Ship of Fools—a bunch of desperate people sailing into disaster.”

“This point is made from Charlie Sykes, who wrote a book on Kamala Harris.”

“One of the things I stressed in my book was that it was horrible that COVID happened during an election year; it was the worst possible timing because as soon as there started to be a difference of approach in the summer, right, and DeSantis was saying maybe we can open up, and COVID was saying, 'No, we can’t,' everyone”

“Good Eats isn't in production right now, but Alton was actually kind enough to, uh, come and do my initial book launch event here in New York at R.I. Bookstore. So is that the Flavorama book? That is the Flavorama book, I have it!”

“Did you put all that in your book? Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos! Ooh!”

“You did say billions and billions; the man wrote a book called 'Billions and Billions.' After everybody kept saying it, and then he went on to the show, right, and said 'Okay, now I say it officially.' So do you know who first said 'billions and billions'?”

“Uh, we love East Fork; I read a book.”

“Lewis's book is called 'The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.'”

“Because grok was the mode of apprehension used by, I think, Valentine Smith in "Stranger in a Strange Land," Robert Heinlein's book, and it was basically a sky savior who was humanoid that came from, oh yes.”

“Words of Carl Sagan, who is the author of Nuclear Winter.”

“There's a Philip Roth book, Conversion to the Jews, it's a short story!”

“Yeah, so, um, prior to that, we kind of jumped ahead a little bit, but prior to that, um, she—in addition to that National Geographic cover story—um, less than 10 years later, um, she released her first book, 'In the Shadow of Man.'”

“She wrote a preface for one of his, uh, book collections, and it turned into like this cool friendship.”

“I was recently talking to a feminist vegan named Carol Adams, who's awesome; she wrote this book called The Sexual Politics of Meat. So I'm sure she would love the pig anus discussion we just had.”

“I read it. Dr. Laura's book, which we hear from this episode, is Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives.”

“Now he takes things from that book, Girl, Wash Your Face—you remember that one? Yeah, no, Dr. Laura's book is—yeah, that's a different one.”

“And she is the author of Dr. Laura: The Unauthorized Biography—a revealing look at the hidden life of radio phenomenon Dr. Laura Schlesinger—which for reasons I cannot explain has an anarchist flag as its background!”

“I'm going to recommend first a great book into the bright Sunshine young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights It's by Samuel G fredman and it is basically a biography of Hubert Humphrey up until the 1948 Democratic Convention when he Maneuvers with the Americans for Democratic action to put a civil rights plank a strong civil rights”

“and then for a third book this is a little I'd say like left field of these two books which are these two previous books which are very much about Party politics but I I read Stephen Han a story in his new book a liberal America which stretches back to America's the country's Colonial Origins to the Pres to”

“One of the main aims of the state, and this is from the book, seeing like a state, he said that the state tries to make taxpayers legible.”

“No, Hank, Zipser was 28 in total, 28 books, 7 million copies sold. 28 individual novels, you know, then we wrote Here's Hank when he was in the second grade.”

“No, Hank, Zipser was 28 in total, 28 books, 7 million copies sold. 28 individual novels, you know, then we wrote Here's Hank when he was in the second grade.”

“I listened to a lot and read a lot of Brené Brown's work; 'Daring Greatly' was hugely helpful to me because I literally felt like I was going to step off a precipice and talk about this issue.”

“I think the first Brené Brown book I picked up was 'The Gifts of Imperfection,' and I learned to embrace all these places in me that I do see as imperfect.”

“Many years ago, I read a book called 'Awakening Joy' by James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander. One thing I learned from that book—I carried it in my bag for years—is that you can hold joy and sadness side by side.”