Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W13

“there's General Slim had this phrase, you know, from defeat into victory.”

“Vasily Grossman says at the center of "Life and Fate," almost everything that is worth saying about antisemitism”

“As you know, I start "On Democracy and Death Cults" with the flight taken of Ayatollah Khomeini”

“And it's actually a scene that appears in "The Satanic Verses" of Rushdie, where that exact same thing happens.”

“Did you ever read the "Tragic Sense of Life," Miguel de Unamuno?”

“Derek is a writer at "The Atlantic", author of "Hitmakers", and "On work", and host of the "Plain English Podcast."”

“Derek is a writer at "The Atlantic", author of "Hitmakers", and "On work", and host of the "Plain English Podcast."”

“You've read probably, is it Frederick Turner's "From Counterculture to Cyber Culture"?”

“if you read, say, Maggie Haberman's great biography of Donald Trump, "Confidence Man"”

“uh I've got a book out in August uh it's called classroom confidential”

“Um, but the safeguard process was created by Joe Pone, Donnie Brasco. It was created by Joe and a and a former agent who was back his background was a clinical psychologist, Steve Ban.”

“the base is an accelerationist group and that's what I I again great detail in the book uh in the podcast but the thing is is most people hear white supremacy they think hoods and robes and crosses on fire right that's not this man the these are these are this is why they're called accelerationist there's a book out”

“Tell everybody the book. Uh the book is Codeename Pailhorse. Uh and it's how I went undercover to expose America's Nazis.”

“And especially if you know that that indoctrination has been on purpose and profitable and you know, one of the great things about your book is um first of all, your book's called Dissolving Illusions.”

“I read your book and I started reading uh Turtles All the Way Down which uh also which is really interesting because they wrote another book called Turtles All the Way Down and someone else published it that has almost the identical cover and that book is a provaccine book.”

“What's that there? Forbidden Science. Oh, Jacqu Valet.”

“like that's scene early on in the um when Tom Cruz played Jack Reacher where he was like remember you wanted this the guys the guy the guys outside of the bar when he yeah yes when they when they work very hard to make him look taller than that was he yeah cuz Jack Reacher the book is 6465”

“unlike other news organizations our viewership is going through the roof this year as we continue to bring sort of under reported stories and off narrative stories and I have a new book follow the science how big Pharma misleads obscures and prevails”

“Do you guys remember um Tucker Max yep yeah we had Tucker Max uh bought a billboard for his book and then he was working with Ryan holiday and the story goes”

“but then in ancient Egypt they talked about the underworld under the pyramids where Souls would go I think it's am Amoth or something in the the book of uh gosh the is it the Book of the Dead yeah they talk about it”

“it reminds me a little bit of um oh what was that excellent gravity's rainbow do you guys remember that one ... is that Thomas Pinon Yes yeah ... that novel has this thing about a secret conspiratorial Postal Service”

“For instance uh you know a great a great debate uh covering the things they carry is whether that should be evaluated as a cohesive novel or whether it's a series of interrelated short stories”

“and on the other side of the wall every wall is just snow and3 de C weather and HP Lovecraft monsters mountains of Madness”

“Have you written about this for example I wrote a little bit about it in the story of Noah”

“and this you just made Iris Murdoch's argument in the sovereignty of the good she talks about the example of the Mother-in-law who has like this attitude towards her daughter-in-law”

“I seem to remember in uh lost connections Johan Harry's book uh that there's a carve out in the DSM for grief around depression”

“Stan tkin did your brain on love best best book on attachment that I've ever listened to only exists as an audiobook to your brain on Love by Stan tkin [ __ ] outstanding”

“So it start it's a it's called don't tell me I can't. It's written by a 14-year-old at the time called Cole Summers and essentially just to contrast it to the Department of Education.”

“Uh, in fact, I'm reading a book at the moment by Martin Seligman, uh, that has a quiz, and much of the quiz is asking you questions about agency.”

“I know we've uh spoken about this before of the um uh How to Know a Person, that book.”

“three body problem that's like one of the one of the ideas I hav't I haven't actually read it now It's like on my kind of to-do to read list”

“So there is the objective quality of a book. That's the first one. And this is what everybody thinks about. So we'll take a book like Gibbons, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Okay, people tell me amazing book. They'll say the writing is is is really strong. It's been super influential. Sure, you know, maybe you got”

“and he explains his extraordinary relationship with the Israeli Security Services going back to 1951 when he and David Ben grian come over and make a deal with Allen dullas about how how the two intelligence services will share information that story of Angleton and the Services which I talk about in my book about Angleton The Ghost”

“it look I mean the book starts with you getting shot so this stuff is dangerous and I'd love to start with that story because it frankly it sounds like a good reason not to join the ATF in the first place unless you're the right kind of person it actually enforced my reason to join to be honest with”

“um you know uh I I think Joel pastone I think Donnie Brasco like at least touched on that uh to some extent you know and that's a guy who's on the Mount Rushmore of of undercover work um you know he's so legendary but he still overlapped with his family at times too”

“And John Florio even included includes it in his 1598 publications. A world of words.”

“and um sleep wrecked kid by Sharon Moore”

“this is kind of Western price stuff”

“There's an amazing line about this by an author named Ashis Nandi who wrote a book called the Dow of Cricket and he says cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English.”

“And I've been referring a couple times to Manoj Badali and the book he wrote in New innings about his experience owning and running the Rajasthan Royals, the other team that was suspended for two seasons.”