Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W40

“Much like Nabokov forces us to do in Lolita, the truly unsettling part, the terrifying thing, is realizing that each one of us might be capable of committing an evil act given the right reasons.”

“A reporter at the Guardian got their hands on an early copy of her book that's coming out next week and reported that in it, the former First Lady reveals that she is stridently pro-choice.”

“I saw videos from there where it was just literally like the mist, like the Stephen King story, just absolutely this very weird, sickly kind of haze. I don't know, what did you experience that?”

“In another book called Anson's Gold, a fellow named George Edmund says that we have to remember George Anson was a naval man—he was an admiral! And George Edmund argues that Anson created this cipher to hide the latitude and longitude of an island where he had buried or discovered a huge Spanish treasure! Oh, it's a treasure map!”

“In 1982, the author of a book called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail speculated that the painter you had mentioned earlier, uh, Poussin, was a member of what's called the Priory of Sion! And we remember we interviewed, uh, the daughter of one of the authors; Vent was her last name, I believe! Uh, fascinating story!”

“And you know, this is very Dan Brown! Dan Brown leans very heavily on this in one of his books, at least in The Da Vinci Code! And the idea is that this bloodline was, uh, secreted away!”

“First episode of the podcast, Propaganda, available online.”

“I created a reason to go on TV again because it was the 10th anniversary of the first book I wrote, which was called '10% Happier.' I got my publisher to put out a fancy new 10th anniversary edition.”

“Yeah, so I mentioned this because in 2019 there were a couple of target articles about the evolution of music, and this is something I devoted a whole book to in 2008, The World in Six Songs.”

“So this is the book I wanted to write 20 years ago when I wrote This Is Your Brain on Music. But there was not enough evidence for medical applications of music!”

“So, Daniel, you have a recent book published with W. W. Norton. That's who your publisher is? Anyone over 70 will get that reference! No! Yeah, if you’re an Eddie Murphy fan, you’ll get it too! You’ll get that from that one skit he did! I'm with W. W. Norton, very happy! Yeah! I have a few books with W.”

“That actually came from A.J. Jacobs; his newest book is called, I think, 'Living Constitutionally,' or something like that. He's the one that revealed that fact for me, so thanks A.J. Jacobs. Um, rules–yeah.”

“my first book is how the world became Rich by Mark coyama and Jared Rubin”

“um the final book is a novel by Emil Zola called the Ladies paradise”

“The anthropologist James Suzman, in his book 'Work,' tells a story about Kellogg’s, the cereal company, during the Great Depression. The company cut their workers’ hours to create an additional shift, which let them hire more people. The workday went from 8 hours to 6.”

“Fifty years ago, the Chicago writer and radio host Studs Terkel published a book called 'Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do.' Terkel interviewed dozens of people about their jobs: a cab driver, waitress, bookbinder, factory owner, industrial designer, a gravedigger, a carpenter; the book became a classic. It was”

“This title was stolen from a children's book by the beloved author and illustrator Richard Scarry. Here is his son, Huck Scarry. When I was growing up, my father worked at home.”

“I have one very important thing in common with Ta-Nehisi Coates that I would like to confess right up top is that I too have spent 10 days in Israel on a junket. Um, and also I have not recently published a book about that called the message.”

“But I will say the gag is that he and Matt Damon are producers on Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Yeah, which is going—going, which I heard is good. Okay.”

“I thought I'd start in the nerdiest place possible: have you read Marcus's letters to Fronto? You know who Fronto is? The love letters?”

“I mean, there are different accounts of how culpable Seneca was. I love the James Romm book 'Dying Every Day', it's extraordinary. What I love about Seneca is his humanness; he had this ideal that he tried to reach, and the reality was working for Nero.”

“'Letters to Lucilius' is a good example; that's addressed to someone, but you can see him working out death and grief in that work. Same with 'On the Shortness of Life'; it's an intellectual exercise and a spiritual exercise. They didn't have a pre-fitted philosophy or theology that they could live by; they had to come up with it themselves,”

“'Letters to Lucilius' is a good example; that's addressed to someone, but you can see him working out death and grief in that work. Same with 'On the Shortness of Life'; it's an intellectual exercise and a spiritual exercise. They didn't have a pre-fitted philosophy or theology that they could live by; they had to come up with it themselves,”

“I think she's possibly Princeton or Yale, um, but she wrote a wonderful book called The Therapy of Desire, which looks, you know, there's a, a case study, a kind of fictional case study of a young woman in Stoic times who, um, is learning Stoicism. And you know there's this great, you know, um, Nussbaum is a brilliant writer,”

“Um, one of my books, Well Mania was turned into a Netflix show. And, um, it's, it did a great first season. It did really well around the world.”

“And they all shrugged, and she wrote a book about it.”

“That's why I titled it for the book. And the question is what do you want to remember?”

“Second of all, I want to thank you for writing your book, 'Why We Remember,' because it's a fantastic exploration of the modern understanding of memory.”

“But tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow is—is one of the things I read last year which I just still am floored by, really, if tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow, it's wonderful fiction, wonderful fiction, yeah.”

“There's Sylvia Plath biography that everybody loves; I’m going to write that down too.”

“And there was just a lot of beautiful things that happened in that time, like I moved to LA and I didn’t really have a lot of people around at that time, and I remember I went to this coffee shop every morning and I got this coffee, and as I was like sitting there telling myself this, I saw”