Week 2024-W43
Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W43
29 books, grouped by podcast.
No Stupid Questions
“But when you think about other aspects of costuming, Isaac Bashevis Singer, who is a writer and thinker from a long time ago, said, 'What a strange power there is in clothing.'”
People I (Mostly) Admire
Discussed The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“In your book, you talk a lot about how gender roles in marriage have changed as women are doing better economically.”
Discussed Dream hoarders
“A great example would be the book you wrote before, which is called Dream Hoarders, which is about how the upper middle class is moving away from the rest of society.”
Discussed Little men
“I want to honor that, and what's really interesting about this is that, you know how when you write a book, by the time you finish the book and it's out there, you're sick of it?”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
Discussed Dark Wire
“I only know about this; there's a book called Dark Wire. Dark Wire, it's coming out as a Netflix series actually, that was the news that brought up in the press recently. I didn't know—I remember the book, um, by a guy named Joseph Cox; it's a great read.”
Discussed Satanic Bible
“He created the Satanic Bible, it still to this day remains available, you can find it, it's one of the most, at least most available books that you can find about Satanism or the satanic religion.”
The Ezra Klein Show
Discussed The Art of the Deal
“the idea of trump as you know Mega CEO was forged through the art of the deal the book that he published in 1987 which was Ghost written by Tony Schwarz”
Discussed A First-Rate Madness
“Mick Mulaney Trump's third Chief of Staff he recommended AIDS read the book A First Rate Madness uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness He thought it would help them understand the way Trump's strange psychology maybe even his mental illness helped make him a powerful and unique leader”
Discussed The Toddler in Chief
“There is an answer to this question it's that as president Trump was surrounded by Inhibitors in 2020 the political scientist Daniel Dresner published a book entitled the toddler and chief The core of the book was over a, instances jar collected in which Trump is described by those around him in terms befitting an impetuous child”
Discussed Managing Risk
“There is an answer to this question it's that as president Trump was surrounded by Inhibitors in 2020 the political scientist Daniel Dresner published a book entitled the toddler and chief The core of the book was over a, instances jar collected in which Trump is described by those around him in terms befitting an impetuous child”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Discussed Hillbilly Elegy
“Vance writes with real love of the people in his life in Hillbilly Elegy, which is genuinely a people rather than idea-centered book — that is not a criticism, by the way, but an observation, as I have already commented positively on his intelligence.”
Discussed The Origins and History of Consciousness
“Neumann wrote a book called The Origins and History of Consciousness, which is a work of genius, and also another book called The Great Mother, which is a study of the symbolism of the feminine.”
Stuff You Should Know
Discussed Grimm's Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm)
“Um, of course, central to a lot of these stories were the Brothers Grimm, uh Jacob and Wilhelm, who we did I think a two-parter on the Grimm brothers, uh didn't we?”
“Uh, also late in the 19th century, none other than William Butler Yeats published, I don't know if it was the first one but maybe one of the first big guidebooks almost about fairies. It was called Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry, uh published in 1888.”
Discussed Foundation
“Yeah, well you know what that reminds me of, Chuck, is do you remember that big coffee table gnome book from the 70s, like Garden Gnomes?”
Discussed Backyard fairies
“Well, I'm looking, yeah, yeah, 'Backyard Fairies' by Phoebe Wahl.”
Behind the Bastards
Discussed A thousand days
“Over a long career as a political writer, he laid down the definitive first biography of JFK's White House, he convinced RFK to run for president, he then wrote a definitive book about RFK after he was assassinated, he invented the term the imperial presidency!”
Discussed Robert Kennedy and his times
“Over a long career as a political writer, he laid down the definitive first biography of JFK's White House, he convinced RFK to run for president, he then wrote a definitive book about RFK after he was assassinated, he invented the term the imperial presidency!”
The Tucker Carlson Show
Discussed The Conscience of a Conservative
“So I was coming from a working-class background, and I saw the Republican Party—not necessarily the leadership of the Republican Party, but the principles of what Goldwater was talking about as something that attracted my interest.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
Discussed Fighting Soul
“Ari Rabin-Havt, a former deputy campaign manager, wrote a great book depicting your journey, titled "The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders."”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Discussed The Exorcist
“I looked for dark humor like dead baby jokes; I read The Exorcist for an eighth-grade book report, and I wrote about The Exorcist. That book is not appropriate for a 13-year-old!”
Discussed Dear America
“It always says, 'Journal,' that's almost a thing you've been told from a young age–like the American Girl book and keeping of you is Dear America. Did you ever read this? Dear America?”
Discussed The Care and Keeping of You 2
“I’m talking about there's an American Girl book from the mid-90s called The Care and Keeping of You that every young woman read! And it featured a graphic illustration of a girl putting a tampon in—every woman listening to this or watching this who was born in the late 80s or early 90s knows what I’m talking about!”
The Daily Stoic
Discussed The Return
“And for me, like honestly, just being in the car, yes, and I'm listening to Dana Milbank's new book about the dysfunctional 2022 class. Yes, which is just cathartic because I'm like, yeah, well, you guys enjoy that, right?”
Discussed Never Play It Safe
“I'm telling you man, I hate to be that dude talking about his book, but there’s a whole chapter about that—it’s the constraints chapter.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Discussed Good Inside
“And you know, I'm reading like, what's the book you recommend constantly? Good Inside. Yeah, that's like the current play on my phone. She's...”
Huberman Lab
Discussed A Poison Like No Other
“In fact, there's a book that I read in preparation for this episode; gosh, it was so depressing but important for me to read; maybe you want to read it as well. It's quite good, although it will be a bit of a downer; the title of the book is 'A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet”
SmartLess
Discussed Why I Write
“Who's out there in Wisconsin saying, 'You know what we really need to do? We need to ban Orwell's books, provide tax cuts for billionaires, and repress women.'”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Discussed Life on the Mississippi
“Do you remember the book Body for Life?”