Book Society: Recent Episodes
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Ben Mattlin and I discuss his book Disability Pride.
Buy Disability Pridehttps://www.amazon.com/Disability-Pride-Dispatches-Post-ADA-World/dp/B0BFK8ZCQQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3G5S6IDBHVXMG&keywords=disability+pride%2C+book&qid=1669244016&sprefix=disability+pride%2C+book%2Caps%2C124&sr=8-1
It's a bonus clips episode!
We're at the 2022 Miami Book Fair, talking to the most interesting authors, poets, writers with new works published this year. In celebration of our partnership with the Miami Book Fair, we grabbed some clips from last year's Miami Book Fair episodes.
MIAMI BOOK FAIRhttps://miamibookfair.com/
https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/
Joshua Jay - Episodes 25 and 26
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
How Magicians Think by Joshua Jay
https://www.amazon.com/Misdirection-Magicians-Think-Joshua-Jay/dp/1523507438/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=how+magicians+think&qid=1634843723&sr=8-1
How Music Works by David Byrne:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Works-David-Byrne/dp/0804188939/ref=asc_df_0804188939/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312057344057&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13081381195153154006&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031148&hvtargid=pla-354840765753&psc=1
Maggie Smith - Episodes 28 and 29
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
The Life, By Carrie Fountain:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Penguin-Poets-Carrie-Fountain/dp/0143136011
Goldenrod, by Maggie Smith:
https://www.amazon.com/Goldenrod-Poems-Maggie-Smith/dp/1982185066/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Goldenrod&qid=1636694888&s=books&sr=1-1
Kathie Klarreich - Episode 30
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
Hear Us:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FS825T9
Jane Smiley - Episodes 31 and 32
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
Jane's Latest Book, Perestroika in Paris:
https://www.amazon.com/Perestroika-Paris-novel-Jane-Smiley/dp/052543609X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LBNAJWTCPCRU&keywords=perestroika+in+paris+by+jane+smiley
Jane's Book About Dickens:
https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Life-Penguin-Lives-ebook/dp/B000OCXGBY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1638297220&sr=1-3
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens:
https://www.amazon.com/Mutual-Friend-Introduction-Edwin-Whipple-ebook/dp/B07HQY57RH/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=Our+mutual+friend
Denise Hamilton - Episodes 33 and 34
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
They Shoot Horses, Don't They by Horace McCoyhttps://www.amazon.com/They-Shoot-Horses-Serpents-Classics/dp/184668739X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=They+Shoot+Horses+Dont%27+they&qid=1639687721&s=books&sr=1-1Denise's Book, Speculative Los Angeles:
https://www.amazon.com/Speculative-Los-Angeles-Denise-Hamilton/dp/1617758566
Edwidge Danticat - Episode 53
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid:https://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GERRCMMYZ7YJ&keywords=a+small+place&qid=1651179527&sprefix=a+small+place%2Caps%2C283&sr=8-1 Learn More About Edwidge Danticat:https://edwidgedanticat.com
Ben Matlin and I talk about Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's book Care Work. It's a book about a social justice movement I didn't know existed.
Buy Care Work:
https://www.amazon.com/Care-Work-Dreaming-Disability-Justice/dp/1551527383
Historian Robert K. Sutton and I talk about Nazis On The Potomac. He divulges some previously classified information.
Buy Nazis On The Potomac:
https://www.amazon.com/Nazis-Potomac-Top-Secret-Intelligence-Operation/dp/1612009875
I discuss the autobiography of Ulysses S Grant with civil war Historian Robert K Sutton.
Rodrigo and I talk about The Displaced, tattoos, gentrification, Los Angeles and gangs.
Buy The Displaced:
https://www.amazon.com/Displaced-Rodrigo-Ribera-Debre/dp/1558859381/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3JRAG6P02HI63&keywords=the+displaced&qid=1666898575&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjU4IiwicXNhIjoiMS4wNiIsInFzcCI6IjEuMTgifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=The+Displaced%2Caps%2C254&sr=8-4
Poet and novelist Charles Harper Webb and I discuss his book Ursula Lake.
Buy Ursula Lake:
https://www.amazon.com/Ursula-Lake-Charles-Harper-Webb/dp/1636280218
Listen to this show,
Or don't listen to this show.
If you'll do one thing in life,
You should read Fool's Crow.
Buy Fools Crow:
https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Penguin-Classics-James-Welch/dp/0143106511/ref=asc_df_0143106511/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312809338991&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4884716830605559962&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031148&hvtargid=pla-493775064861&psc=1
Playwright Kirk Lynn and I discuss Games: Agency as Art by C. Thi Nguyen. We start out taking about how we don't really like the book and then slowly realize that it's deep and thought provoking and we actually did like it a lot.
Buy Games: Agency as Art:
https://www.amazon.com/Games-Agency-As-Art-Thinking/dp/0190052082/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AEG76IMELJXF&keywords=games+agency+as+art+c.+thi+nguyen&qid=1664425819&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjcwIiwicXNhIjoiMC43MiIsInFzcCI6IjAuODkifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=Games+agency+a%2Caps%2C264&sr=8-1
Buy Rules For Werewolves:
https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Werewolves-Kirk-Lynn/dp/1612194761/ref=sr_1_1?crid=135RFBWFXMZ0N&keywords=rules+for+werewolves&qid=1664425856&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjQwIiwicXNhIjoiMS44NyIsInFzcCI6IjEuMzMifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=rules+for+warewolves%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-1
Caridad Moro-Gronlier and I discuss her book of Poems, Tortillera.
Buy Tortillera:
https://www.amazon.com/Tortillera-Poems-Caridad-Moro-Gronlier/dp/1680032445/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YX0HWSKO94BK&keywords=tortillera%2C+book&qid=1663271626&sprefix=tortillera%2C+book%2Caps%2C123&sr=8-1
We're Back with Caridad Moro-Gronlier! This episode we discuss Toni Morrison's amazing classic Song Of Solomon.
Richard Blanco, Inaugural poet and man who derives existential pleasure from civil engineering and I discuss his book How To Love A Country.
Buy How To Love a Country:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Love-Country-Richard-Blanco/dp/0807043079/ref=asc_df_0807043079/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=521104755025&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7846218042038700007&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1013668&hvtargid=pla-906068309946&psc=1
The Amazing Richard Blanco, who wrote and performed the inaugural poem for Barack Obama in 2012, Discusses Blud by Rachel McKibbens.
I discuss how reefs turn sunlight into rocks with Sandy Sheehy.
Buy imperiled Reef:
https://www.amazon.com/Imperiled-Reef-Fascinating-Fragile-Caribbean/dp/1683402499
Shells! This is an episode about shells. They're everywhere, they're in everything and they're amazing!
Buy The Sound of the Sea:https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Sea-Seashells-Fate-Oceans/dp/0393651444
Lou Mathews tells us about his work, his amazing book, and how he got a book that no publisher wanted to take a chance on traditionally published anyway. We also talk about East Coast chauvinism in book publishing.
Buy Shaky Town:https://www.amazon.com/Shaky-Town-Novel-Lou-Mathews/dp/1735303801/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2CR5HUD9V36YC&keywords=shaky+town&qid=1654645863&sprefix=shaky+%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyVllRS1c4R1ZGUEw1JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwOTAxNjk4MlNRSzBNMkU5NFBZNCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNTAyNDExOU81V0hOSVdZRVNKJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==
The World As Seen From NY:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue
Lou and I talk about how awesome California is through the lens of Leonard Gardner's classic, Fat City.
Buy Fat City:
https://www.amazon.com/City-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590178920/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1W2RP20IOEXPZ&keywords=fat+city&qid=1654212094&sprefix=fat+city%2Caps%2C311&sr=8-2
In part 2 of my discussion with Ruth Behar we talk about what it means to be a vulnerable observer. We also talk about Poland and Cuba during WWII, Bata drumming and Santeria.
Buy Letters From Cuba:
https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Cuba-Ruth-Behar/dp/0525516476/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1653591531&sr=8-1
Here's some Bata Drumming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id8E60-n2x8
Our first children's book! Ruth Behar and I talk about the amazingly deep and incredibly simple book, The Hundred Dresses but Elenor Estes. We talk about bullying and I have a bit of a sad revelation.
Buy The Hundred Dresses by Elenor Estes:https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Dresses-Eleanor-Estes/dp/0152052607/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2AW2Y95K0TQB9&keywords=the+hundred+dresses&qid=1652718673&sprefix=the+hundred+dresses%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1
I give Catherine Wolff the 3rd degree about the behavior of the Catholic church in recent decades and she defends the church pretty admirably.
Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven:https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Humankind-Thinks-About-Heaven/dp/1594634459
Catherine Wolff and I talk about Timothy Egan's book A Pilgrimage to Eternity. I also make her answer for all of the Catholic Church's crimes.
Buy A Pilgrimage to Eternity:https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrimage-Eternity-Canterbury-Search-Faith/dp/0735225230
Beyond:
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Humankind-Thinks-About-Heaven/dp/1594634459/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YKHFRSIK6D33&keywords=Beyond%2C+how+humankind&qid=1651783501&s=books&sprefix=beyond%2C+how+humankind%2Cstripbooks%2C123&sr=1-1
Edwidge is an amazing writer and brilliant thinker. In this episode, I just try to keep up with limited success.
Buy A Small Place:https://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GERRCMMYZ7YJ&keywords=a+small+place&qid=1651179527&sprefix=a+small+place%2Caps%2C283&sr=8-1
Learn More About Edwidge Danticat:
https://edwidgedanticat.com
Mark Schatzker and I discuss how food has been altered over the last century and what the result is on the population at large. Hint: It may be THE reason why people are obese in such record numbers. If you've ever struggled with your weight, Shatzker's books might tell you why. We also learn where to get the best steak in LA.
Buy The End Of Craving:
https://www.amazon.com/End-Craving-Recovering-Wisdom-Eating/dp/1501192477/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQjwgYSTBhDKARIsAB8KukvudPoO8iCVR7s0WAYXktm-6usDQ528y-u0_TD1Xr7j3VwxGAfQxVEaAjuNEALw_wcB&hvadid=583781009437&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9031148&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1857408126951394168&hvtargid=kwd-1425928351355&hydadcr=22190_9764374&keywords=the+end+of+craving&qid=1650572423&sr=8-1
I also highly recommend his last book The Dorito Effect:
https://www.amazon.com/Dorito-Effect-Surprising-Truth-Flavor-ebook/dp/B00LD1RWVK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1650572423&sr=8-2
Find out more about Mark Schatzker:
https://www.markschatzker.com
Celebrated food writer Mark Schatzker and I talk about the Western classic True Grit by Charles Portis. I learn from Mark how much poultry factors into this story.
Buy True Grit:
https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Novel-Charles-Portis/dp/159020459X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DH1127F4MU6B&keywords=true+grit+book&qid=1649889088&sprefix=true+grit%2Caps%2C193&sr=8-1
Learn more about Mark:https://www.markschatzker.com
Carrie Fountain and I talk about her poetry, Robert Frost, Gerrard Manly Hopkins and I accidentialy misgender Rilke. In my defense, his middle name is Maria.
Buy The Life:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/650137/the-life-by-carrie-fountain/
Find Out More About Carrie Fountain:https://www.carriefountain.com
Texas Poet Laurete Carrie Fountain and I talk about Poetry, the driftless region and Jeffrey Dahmer.
Buy God of Nothingness:https://www.amazon.com/God-Nothingness-Poems-Mark-Wunderlich/dp/1644450429
Me and Maggie Smith Talk About Carrie Fountain's Book:
M&A Legend and Venture Capitalist Ken Miller and I talk about the nature of fiction and the nature of money.
Buy The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet:
https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Autumns-Jacob-Zoet-Novel/dp/0812976363/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18A7T5X1V6ZIP&keywords=the+thousand+autumns+of+jacob+de+zoet&qid=1648160985&sprefix=the+thousand+autumns+of%2Caps%2C305&sr=8-1
Vinod and I talk about the nature of memoir and novels, politics as a national pastime, and the Hindu attitude towards sex... Voltaire makes an appearance too... oh yea, so does the World Bank.
Buy Silent Winds, Dry Seas:https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Winds-Dry-Seas-Novel/dp/0385547021/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18FLNDL7DL82P&keywords=silent+winds+dry+seas&qid=1646864464&s=books&sprefix=silent+winds+dry+%2Cstripbooks%2C123&sr=1-1
Vinod and I talk about about miserable Irish childhoods, the problem with the British, and the Catholic Church.
Buy Angela's Ashes:
https://www.amazon.com/Angelas-Ashes-Frank-McCourt-Memoirs/dp/0684874350/ref=asc_df_0684874350/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312371602209&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15996310014722693887&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031144&hvtargid=pla-463986682027&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=61011965686&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312371602209&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15996310014722693887&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031144&hvtargid=pla-463986682027
Buy Silent Winds, Dry Seas:https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Winds-Dry-Seas-Novel/dp/0385547021/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18FLNDL7DL82P&keywords=silent+winds+dry+seas&qid=1646864464&s=books&sprefix=silent+winds+dry+%2Cstripbooks%2C123&sr=1-1
Meghan and I talk about metaphors, living and dead ones. And about how modern tech philosophers and 3rd century church fathers basically make the same arguments.
Buy Meghan's Book:
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385543828
Read Meghan's Column in Wired:
https://www.wired.com/author/meghan-ogieblyn/
More Meghan Essays (on her website):
http://www.meghanogieblyn.com/writing-1
Here's The Gift I Sent Meghan's Husband:https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-CloudValley-Ultra-Thin-MacBook-Protect/dp/B079MCPJGH/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=23VCXWJLSKJ1V&keywords=laptop+camera+cover&qid=1646256394&sprefix=laptop+camera+cover%2Caps%2C130&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzQ1BHTzI4MlpBTFQ1JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMTIwMjUyVlRXRjU2VVI4RjZXJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA0MjE4ODEyRUxZNjdUUkc2QUNRJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==
Meghan and I go down a rabbit hole about the nature of consciousness, and the brilliant but maybe slightly conspiratorial thinking of Julian Jaynes. This is a good one.
Buy Meghan's Book:
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385543828
Buy The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind
https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Consciousness-Breakdown-Bicameral-Mind/dp/0618057072/ref=asc_df_0618057072/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312674999652&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3062671179531381137&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031144&hvtargid=pla-465283667891&psc=1
Read Meghan's Column in Wired:
https://www.wired.com/author/meghan-ogieblyn/
More Meghan Essays:
http://www.meghanogieblyn.com/writing-1
Russ and I talk about the United States, the Pulitzer prize and a diamond farm.
Buy Wandering Through Winter:
https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Through-Winter-Naturalists-American/dp/B001U035GA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DA1J8E476NU5&keywords=wandering+through+winter&qid=1645139662&sprefix=wandering+through+%2Caps%2C257&sr=8-1
Here's a list of Pulitzer Prize For General Non-Fiction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Nonfiction
Dr. Steeves tells us about the Clovis fallacy and how humans were on North America for thousands of years before the the current archeological orthodoxy suggests. It's worth mentioning that the New York Time just reviewed a book by Dr. Jennifer Raff called Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas that comes to the same conclusion.
Buy Dr. Steeves Book!
Buy The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemispherehttps://www.amazon.com/Indigenous-Paleolithic-Western-Hemisphere/dp/1496202171/ref=asc_df_1496202171/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=475909350401&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14455470623895675361&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031148&hvtargid=pla-1092269749597&psc=1
Dr. Steeves and I talk about Joy Harjo's beautiful book. And my friend the ground squirrel.
Buy Poet Warrior:
https://www.amazon.com/Poet-Warrior-Memoir-Joy-Harjo/dp/0393248526/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1I6C55UDJ5SMC&keywords=poet+warrior+joy+harjo&qid=1643753424&sprefix=poet+warrior%2Caps%2C322&sr=8-1
Database Of Residential Schools:
https://www.crscid.com
Maria Amparo Escandon and I talk about her book LA Weather. I insist on reading a passage from Southern California, An Island On The Land.
Miami Book Fair Interview:
https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/organizer/maria-amparo-escandon/
Buy LA Weather:
https://www.amazon.com/L-Weather-Mar%C3%ADa-Amparo-Escandón-ebook/dp/B08QGL8XQ6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1642635566&sr=8-3
Maria Amparo and I talk about the baffling masterpiece of magical realism, Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo.
Buy Pedro Paramo:
https://www.amazon.com/Pedro-Paramo-Juan-Rulfo/dp/0802133908/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3F7GH48ROG31L&keywords=pedro+paramo&qid=1642635519&sprefix=pedro+paramo%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1
Buy LA Weather:
https://www.amazon.com/L-Weather-Mar%C3%ADa-Amparo-Escandón-ebook/dp/B08QGL8XQ6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1642635566&sr=8-3
Early American History Professor Peter Mancall and I talk about the Pilgrims, predestination and buggery.
Buy Of Plymouth Plantation:
https://www.amazon.com/Plymouth-Plantation-Dover-Value-Editions/dp/0486452603/ref=asc_df_0486452603/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312021455910&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1703685751642345781&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031148&hvtargid=pla-546784462047&psc=1
Buy The Trials Of Thomas Morton:
https://www.amazon.com/Trials-Thomas-Morton-Anglican-Puritan/dp/B07ZQT46Q9/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2ZMA5662GW2L3&keywords=peter+mancall&qid=1642099843&s=books&sprefix=peter+mancall%2Cstripbooks%2C117&sr=1-2
Author of Stealing Home, Eric Nusbaum and I talk about Lou Mathew's fantastic book Shaky Town. We talk about the Dodgers in probably a little too much detail but this podcast does not apologize for Dodger talk. I make some wildly incorrect predictions about the now finished Baseball season. I also tell a story about a how I predicted that Chris Taylor would hit 3 homers in a particular game... He did, I called it, but no one but my wife believes me.
Eric's Super Cool Sports Blog:
https://sportsstories.substack.com
Buy Shaky Town:
https://www.amazon.com/Shaky-Town-Novel-Lou-Mathews/dp/1735303801/ref=sr_1_1?crid=MQARAW0R64UG&keywords=shaky+town+lou+mathews&qid=1641329759&sprefix=shaky+town+lou+mathews%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-1
Buy Stealing Home:
https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Home-Angeles-Dodgers-Between/dp/1541742214/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1641329791&sr=8-1
I talk about my favorite books and look at the year ahead. Happy New Year!
Orphaned Books:
Billion Dollar Looser, Reeves Wiedman, 2020 Hachette (Adam Neumann)
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 1878, Viking 2001
A Promised Land, 2021 Random House
Say Nothing, Patrick Raden Keefe, 2019 Anchor Books
BOOKS THAT STOOD OUT TO ME NON-FIC:
Cadillac Deseret, Mark Reisner 1986 Penguin Book
Art&Fear, David Bayles And Ted Orland 1993 Capra Press
Steeling Home, Eric Nusbaum 2020 Hachette
WonderWorks, Angus Fletcher 2020 Simon And Schuester
Some Mistakes Of Moses, Robert G Ingersol 1879
BOOKS THAT STOOD OUT TO ME FIC:
MiddleMarch, George Elliot 1871
There, There, Tommy Orange 2019 Vintage
Perestroika In Paris, Jane Smiley 2020
For The Time Being, Annie Dillard 1999 Penguin (I think)
Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 1986 DC Comics
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Comedian, Actor and Author Wayne Federman and I talk about self help, sports, neurosis, and subjecting ourselves to criticism... we also talk about singing show tunes.
More About Wayne:
http://www.waynefederman.com/Wayne_Federmans_Official_Web_Site/Welcome.html
Buy History Of Standup:
https://www.amazon.com/History-Stand-Up-Mark-Twain-Chappelle/dp/B08YRP1R2G/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9BIPORHXEZLE&keywords=wayne+federman&qid=1640905988&sprefix=wayne+federman%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-1
Buy Atomic Habits:
https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1640906041&sr=8-1
Wayne's Twitter: @Federman
Dave Kinney vs. Dina Hashem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7K3y4EPq10
Sam Morril - I Got This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xo3Fq7GGWk&t=1354s
Denise Hamilton and I talk about her anthology, Speculative Los Angeles.
Another one from the Miami Book Fair:
https://www.miamibookfair.com
Buy Denise's Book, Speculative Los Angeles:
https://www.amazon.com/Speculative-Los-Angeles-Denise-Hamilton/dp/1617758566
Denise Hamilton and I talk about They Shoot Horses Don't They? No horses were injured in the making of this episode.
Another one from the Miami Book Fair:
https://www.miamibookfair.com
Buy They Shoot Horses, Don't They by Horace McCoyhttps://www.amazon.com/They-Shoot-Horses-Serpents-Classics/dp/184668739X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=They+Shoot+Horses+Dont%27+they&qid=1639687721&s=books&sr=1-1
Buy Denise's Book, Speculative Los Angeles:
https://www.amazon.com/Speculative-Los-Angeles-Denise-Hamilton/dp/1617758566
Jane and I talk about her amazing new book Perestroika in Paris. She slightly judges my taste in Russian authors.
Another one from the Miami Book Fair:
https://www.miamibookfair.com
Buy Jane's Latest Book, Perestroika in Paris:
https://www.amazon.com/Perestroika-Paris-novel-Jane-Smiley/dp/052543609X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LBNAJWTCPCRU&keywords=perestroika+in+paris+by+jane+smiley
Jane Smiley! Jane deploys some of her extensive Dickens knowledge and insightful criticism, I try to keep up.
Another one from the Miami Book Fair:
https://www.miamibookfair.com
Buy Jane's Latest Book, Perestroika in Paris:
https://www.amazon.com/Perestroika-Paris-novel-Jane-Smiley/dp/052543609X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LBNAJWTCPCRU&keywords=perestroika+in+paris+by+jane+smiley
Buy Jane's Book About Dickens:
https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Life-Penguin-Lives-ebook/dp/B000OCXGBY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1638297220&sr=1-3
Buy Our Mutual Friend:
https://www.amazon.com/Mutual-Friend-Introduction-Edwin-Whipple-ebook/dp/B07HQY57RH/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=Our+mutual+friend
Author and editor Kathie Klarreich and I talk about incarcerated people who are writing during a pandemic.
Another one from the Miami Book Fair:
https://www.miamibookfair.com
Exchange For Change:
https://www.exchange-for-change.org/kathieklarreich
Buy Hear Us:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FS825T9
Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones and many, many other amazing poems. We talk more about craft, read one of her poems and discuss what it means to peak as an artist.
https://www.miamibookfair.com
Buy The Life, By Carrie Fountain:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Penguin-Poets-Carrie-Fountain/dp/0143136011
Buy Goldenrod, by Maggie Smith:
https://www.amazon.com/Goldenrod-Poems-Maggie-Smith/dp/1982185066/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Goldenrod&qid=1636694888&s=books&sr=1-1
Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones and many, many other amazing poems. We talk about craft, musicals, enjambment, and about Carrie Fountain's amazing book of poetry: The Life. We also discover that we are members of the same religion.
https://www.miamibookfair.com
Buy The Life, By Carrie Fountain:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Penguin-Poets-Carrie-Fountain/dp/0143136011
Buy Goldenrod, by Maggie Smith:
https://www.amazon.com/Goldenrod-Poems-Maggie-Smith/dp/1982185066/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Goldenrod&qid=1636694888&s=books&sr=1-1
Checkout an amazing scene set song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAzxnHP4erQ
And an amazing "Me nobody Knows" song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXKlJuO07eM
Tiokasin and I discuss archeology, the academy, language, quantum physics, history, and gig we once did at the Met in NYC. it's a pretty interesting one.
Listen to More Tiokasin:
https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org
Tiokasin's Website:
https://www.akantuinstitute.org
Tiokasin's Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Against-Wind-Jadina-Lilien/dp/099790500X
Magician and author Joshua Jay and I discuss David Byrne's How Music Works. I slightly nerd out about Joshua's magic accomplishments.
MIAMI BOOK FAIR
Info: miamibookfair.com
access the author conversations, avail. for free at miamibookfaironline.com
How Magicians Think by Joshua Jay (which I can't recommend highly enough)
https://www.amazon.com/Misdirection-Magicians-Think-Joshua-Jay/dp/1523507438/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=how+magicians+think&qid=1634843723&sr=8-1
How Magicians Think Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-magicians-think/id1588316257
How Music Works by David Byrne:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Works-David-Byrne/dp/0804188939/ref=asc_df_0804188939/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312057344057&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13081381195153154006&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031148&hvtargid=pla-354840765753&psc=1
Joshua's Insta:
@joshuajaymagician
Book Tour Info:
https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/blog/how-magicians-think-book-tour
Joshua Jay on Fool Us:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ncm7wAMRjM&t=24s
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtgUSUHnzLI
Buy Magic Stuff:
https://www.vanishingincmagic.com
Magician and author Joshua Jay and I discuss David Byrne's How Music Works. I slightly nerd out about Joshua's magic accomplishments.
MIAMI BOOK FAIR
Info: miamibookfair.com
access the author conversations, avail. for free at miamibookfaironline.com
How Magicians Think by Joshua Jay (which I can't recommend highly enough)
https://www.amazon.com/Misdirection-Magicians-Think-Joshua-Jay/dp/1523507438/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=how+magicians+think&qid=1634843723&sr=8-1
How Magicians Think Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-magicians-think/id1588316257
How Music Works by David Byrne:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Works-David-Byrne/dp/0804188939/ref=asc_df_0804188939/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312057344057&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13081381195153154006&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031148&hvtargid=pla-354840765753&psc=1
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtgUSUHnzLI
Joshua Jay on Fool Us:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ncm7wAMRjM&t=24s
Joie and I talk about Smoke, by Ivan Turgenev and about her book, An Unofficial Marriage.
Buy Smoke:
https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Alma-Classics-Ivan-Turgenev/dp/1847493165/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QD34D4CD6BW6&dchild=1&keywords=smoke%2C+ivan+turgenev&qid=1634162167&sr=8-1
Buy The Unofficial Marriage:
https://www.amazon.com/Unofficial-Marriage-Novel-Joie-Davidow/dp/1950691780/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+unofficial+marriage&qid=1634162261&sr=8-2
Dr. Lisa Bitel walks me through the ancient Irish Epic, The Tain. This book is also called "the Irish Iliad". I'd recommend reading this one AFTER listening to the episode.
The Tain:
https://www.amazon.com/Tain-Translated-Irish-Epic-Cuailnge/dp/0192803735
More Info about Dr. Bitel:
https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003109
A Poem:
The Surfing Irishman
A nadb named dabd did misbehadb
He stole another surfers wadb
You’d think that he could be forgadb
But poor old Dadb is in his gradb.
We talk about Karl Popper, the fallacy of science, the purpose of literature, and brain scanners... ya know... nice lite accessible stuff.
Buy Angus's book WonderWorks! It is truly fantastic!
https://www.amazon.com/Wonderworks-Powerful-Inventions-History-Literature/dp/B08CY951JM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1K3FT80K81QM2&dchild=1&keywords=wonderworks+book&qid=1632431454&sprefix=wonder+works%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-1
Angus and I talk about the neuroscience of how Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers secretly turns your brain into the brain of an outlier.
This is a book society first! We did an episode about Angus's book with author Judith Dupreé, here's that if you want to hear it:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/judith-dupré/id1565589623?i=1000524195954
Also, Buy Angus's book WonderWorks! It is truly fantastic!
https://www.amazon.com/Wonderworks-Powerful-Inventions-History-Literature/dp/B08CY951JM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1K3FT80K81QM2&dchild=1&keywords=wonderworks+book&qid=1632431454&sprefix=wonder+works%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-1
INSTA: @booksocietypod
LUCAS'S INSTA: @lucasdcantor
WEBSITE: lucascantormusic.com
ANGUS'S WEBSITE: https://www.angusfletcher.co
TOP OF MY HISTORY AS I WRITE THIS: https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/professional-pens?offset=24
Bill and I talk about birth, death, and leopards.
Hole In The Head Review:
https://www.holeintheheadreview.com
What do Julian Bream, nuclear power, and the internet have in common?
Here's a link to George's Book, Analogia, which I can't recommend highly enough:
https://www.amazon.com/Analogia-Emergence-Technology-Programmable-Control/dp/0374104867
George and I talk about Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke and the nature of British Men.
Here's a link to George's Book, Analogia, which I can't recommend highly enough:
https://www.amazon.com/Analogia-Emergence-Technology-Programmable-Control/dp/0374104867
Zach and I conclude our discussion about the books of Mosses. We talk about weird, sexy things that the old testament god created.
Is the bible total non-sense? One 19th Century Chautauqua speaker certainly thought so.
Some Mistakes Of Moses:
https://www.amazon.com/Some-Mistakes-Moses-Classic-Reprint/dp/1330756118
Free Ebook Version:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38099/38099-h/38099-h.htm
Free Audiobook:
https://librivox.org/mistakes-of-moses-by-robert-g-ingersoll/
Is the bible total non-sense? One 19th Century Chautauqua speaker certainly thought so.
Some Mistakes Of Moses:
https://www.amazon.com/Some-Mistakes-Moses-Classic-Reprint/dp/1330756118
Free Ebook Version:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38099/38099-h/38099-h.htm
Free Audiobook:
https://librivox.org/mistakes-of-moses-by-robert-g-ingersoll/
Flynn and I talk about native poetry, intersectionality, genocide and meeting strangers on airplanes.
Buy Flynn's Book:
https://flynncoleman.community/my-book
Buy When The Light Of The World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through:
https://www.amazon.com/Light-World-Subdued-Songs-Through/dp/0393356809/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ODN3G2FI9TQX&dchild=1&keywords=when+the+light+of+the+world+was+subdued&qid=1626195404&sprefix=When+the+Light+of+the+world+w%2Caps%2C211&sr=8-1
Buy A Random Weird Thing From Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003KK9HD8?linkCode=ogi&tag=goodhousekeeping_auto-append-20&ascsubtag=[artid|10055.g.28649116[src|[ch|[lt|
Robert and I talk about The Dodgers and 1950s propaganda films. I gush about his podcast The Hidden History of LA.
Buy Stealing Home:
https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Home-Angeles-Dodgers-Between/dp/1541742214/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1625870716&sr=8-3
HHLA Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hidden-history-of-los-angeles/id666596114?mt=2
1950s Propaganda film with an amazing score:
https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/and-ten-thousand-more-1951#
Literary agent Peter Rubie and I talk about Art and Fear and nearly get into a bar fight.
We talk about 19th century Jewish homesteaders in the Dakotas and propose a plausible theory for the etymology of the phrase "a roll in the hay".
Most Civilizations in history grew up around rivers, lakes, and in places with rain. So what's up with the American West? Why and how are we even here? And how long can this last?
Judith Dupré and I talk about literature and art and buildings and, very briefly, Bertrand Russell.
Me and Daniel Murfet talk about marginal revolutions, sustainable growth, and air conditioning.
Dyalekt and I talk about Hitler's American Model by James Q Whitman. We have a pretty intense conversation about racism in America and our own experience as people of color. Dyalekt gives me grace for misunderstanding the term "passing" and we discuss one of Jim Henson's lesser know projects.
Cliff and I talk about Watchmen, Zach Snyder, Richard Nixon, Lost, and other stuff. I get confused about who went to the moon. There is also a level 10 nerd question in there that I seriously want an answer to.
Conductor, Composer and Candidate Julian Gallant and I discuss the greatest novel ever written: Middlemarch. We talk about the reform act that I'd never heard of but everyone in the UK knows about and we postulate that one Middlemarch inhabitant is a refugee form another novel. There's also something about The Office in there... Julian's British so it all sounds very high brow. There's a bit in there about Stalin as well...
Renowned Author Esmeralda Santiago and I talk about There, There by Tommy Orange, and House Made Of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday. We talk about what it means to "belong" to a culture and I relive a time where I embarrassed myself in front of 2,000 people.
Jesse Cameron Alick and I talk about N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy, make a pretty good case that black women are the best sci-fi writers and forget, for a moment, that the sun exists.