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3/351 episodes analyzed 2 hours of audio 17 books mentioned
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- 1 Mexican GothicSylvia Moreno-Garcia · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 The Blue FlameGeorge Pelecanos · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 The IntrigueSilvia Moreno-Garcia · 2× across 2 episodes
- 4 Under the FallsRichard Russo · 2× across 2 episodes
- 5 Black Flags: The Rise of ISISJoby Warwick · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Give People MoneyAnnie Lowry · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 HamletWilliam Shakespeare · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 ItStephen King · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 Rainbow SixTom Clancy · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Armstrong Trilogy (comprising The Nickel Boys, Harlem Shuffle, and Crook Manifesto - note: The Nickel Boys is not set in Harlem, but Whitehead's Harlem sequence is an ongoing trilogy starting with Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto)Colson Whitehead · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The BibleVarious Authors - Compiled by Mark T · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Bourne IdentityRobert Ludlum · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Day of the JackalFrederick Forsyth · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos the Jackal, the World's First Super TerroristJoby Warwick · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 The Old Farmer's AlmanacUnknown · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time and How to Fix ItAnnie Lowry · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 The Time Tax: Power, Justice, and the Trivialization of Every DayAnnie Lowrey · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Mexican GothicSylvia Moreno-Garcia · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 The Blue FlameGeorge Pelecanos · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 The IntrigueSilvia Moreno-Garcia · 2× across 2 episodes
- 4 Under the FallsRichard Russo · 2× across 2 episodes
- 5 Black Flags: The Rise of ISISJoby Warwick · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Give People MoneyAnnie Lowry · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 HamletWilliam Shakespeare · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 ItStephen King · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 Rainbow SixTom Clancy · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Armstrong Trilogy (comprising The Nickel Boys, Harlem Shuffle, and Crook Manifesto - note: The Nickel Boys is not set in Harlem, but Whitehead's Harlem sequence is an ongoing trilogy starting with Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto)Colson Whitehead · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The BibleVarious Authors - Compiled by Mark T · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Bourne IdentityRobert Ludlum · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Day of the JackalFrederick Forsyth · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos the Jackal, the World's First Super TerroristJoby Warwick · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 The Old Farmer's AlmanacUnknown · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time and How to Fix ItAnnie Lowry · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 The Time Tax: Power, Justice, and the Trivialization of Every DayAnnie Lowrey · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Mexican GothicSylvia Moreno-Garcia · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 The Blue FlameGeorge Pelecanos · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 The IntrigueSilvia Moreno-Garcia · 2× across 2 episodes
- 4 Under the FallsRichard Russo · 2× across 2 episodes
- 5 Black Flags: The Rise of ISISJoby Warwick · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Give People MoneyAnnie Lowry · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 HamletWilliam Shakespeare · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 ItStephen King · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 Rainbow SixTom Clancy · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Armstrong Trilogy (comprising The Nickel Boys, Harlem Shuffle, and Crook Manifesto - note: The Nickel Boys is not set in Harlem, but Whitehead's Harlem sequence is an ongoing trilogy starting with Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto)Colson Whitehead · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The BibleVarious Authors - Compiled by Mark T · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Bourne IdentityRobert Ludlum · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Day of the JackalFrederick Forsyth · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos the Jackal, the World's First Super TerroristJoby Warwick · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 The Old Farmer's AlmanacUnknown · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time and How to Fix ItAnnie Lowry · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 The Time Tax: Power, Justice, and the Trivialization of Every DayAnnie Lowrey · 1× across 1 episode
Betty Gilpin is seeking anti-algorithm, weird roles – and it's working
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Election experts share concerns about the midterms
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A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy
Richard L. Hasen
a real right to vote how a constitutional amendment can safeguard american democracy now in paperback ▶ tap to play from here
David Treuer traces America's relationship with violence back to the frontier
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer
his acclaimed book the heartbeat of wounded knee challenged that narrative ▶ tap to play from here
The Savage Mind: An American Legacy
David Treuer
now in his new book the savage mine an american legacy troyer turns his attention to the country itself ▶ tap to play from here
Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
David Treuer
but like i did write a book about reservations called res life that came out some years ago ▶ tap to play from here
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
they've read less than mohicans ▶ tap to play from here
Beloved
Toni Morrison
people interpret often interpret beloved as basically uh uh a window onto the ravages of race based slavery ▶ tap to play from here
Sula
Toni Morrison
and so they treat they treat beloved and you know sulla and song of solomon to a lesser extent ▶ tap to play from here
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
and so they treat they treat beloved and you know sulla and song of solomon to a lesser extent ▶ tap to play from here
Meshell Ndegeocello turns familiar songs inside out
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
i chose the fire next time and that was in two thousand fourteen and i lived with that book for a year in my pocket reading it over and over again ▶ tap to play from here
Chronicles: Volume One
Bob Dylan
my friend chris bruce gave me chronicles which i read when he gave it to me and like two thousand eleven i think not sure but yeah and then it it it hit me and it hurt me my feelings ▶ tap to play from here
The Savage Mind
David Treuer
in his new book the savage mind troyer explores how that violent history still lives inside of us ▶ tap to play from here
Best Of: Mahershala Ali / Writer Yiyun Li
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
Eun Lee
she wrote an eloquent memoir about that published last year titled things in nature merely grow and it won a pulitzer prize ▶ tap to play from here
MA
Music Against the Night
Eun Lee
her new novel music against the night is set in the late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds ▶ tap to play from here
Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
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Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
it's the 50th anniversary of her novel interview with the vampire ▶ tap to play from here
The Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice
she followed with more than a dozen novels that became known as the vampire chronicles ▶ tap to play from here
Dracula
Bram Stoker
you know when i read bram stoker's dracula i really started thinking that the story had a lot to do with fear of syphilis ▶ tap to play from here
The Witching Hour
Anne Rice
i think the witching hour is the darkest book i've ever written really ▶ tap to play from here
Inside the Musk/Bezos space race
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AI for Good
Josh Terringell
his latest book ai for good is about people finding ways to use ai that are fixing problems not causing them ▶ tap to play from here
Why the Arctic is a new source of global tension
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Sea Change: The New Great Game in the Arctic
Rana Foroohar
her latest is sea change america's new great game in the arctic circle ▶ tap to play from here
TT
The Two Saddest Kitchens
Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein
they've co authored a new graphic book called the two saddest kitch in which they chronicle via what they call a comics conversation the fear and shame sparked by their own apartment kitchens ▶ tap to play from here
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
those familiar with chass's award winning graphic memoir can't we talk about something more pleasant ▶ tap to play from here
After losing her sons, Yiyun Li learned to ‘suffer better’
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
Eun Lee
she wrote an eloquent memoir about that published last year titled things in nature merely grow and it won a pulitzer prize ▶ tap to play from here
MA
Music Against the Night
Eun Lee
her new novel music against the night is set in the late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds ▶ tap to play from here
Sea Change: Alone Together in the World
Rana Foroohar
her new book is called sea change ▶ tap to play from here
Mahershala Ali
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Erasure
Percival Everett
misty is so desperate for a job that she's preparing to audition for the kind of demeaning role percival everett set up in erasure ▶ tap to play from here
A John Prine Appreciation
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Veteran White House reporter April Ryan’s ‘Blacklash’
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Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
April Ryan
her new book is notes on a blackklash when a black woman goes viral ▶ tap to play from here
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
the colonel commission report at the back of the report it talked about journalists ▶ tap to play from here
How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military
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The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
Greg Jaffe
he's also the author of the fourth star a book about four army generals who commanded us troops in iraq ▶ tap to play from here
The War on Warriors
Pete Hegseth
in fact he writes in his book the war on warriors uh in twenty twenty four before he comes into the pentagon that it was sort of the defining experience in his life ▶ tap to play from here
‘Showbiz!’ entertainer Murray Hill became what he didn’t see
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Showbiz: My Life as a Middle-Aged Man
Murray Hill
in his new memoir showbiz exclamation point my life as a middle aged man is he writes about being brought up by a punitive always angry conservative catholic mother ▶ tap to play from here
Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
Diane Arbus
he gave me diane arvis's catalog ▶ tap to play from here
Michael Douglas
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One Hell of a Ride
Michael Douglas
in his new memoir one hell of a ride michael douglas writes that playing these flawed american men wasn't exactly a stretch ▶ tap to play from here
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
we encountered the book by kin casey about the counterculture that he was writing out of ▶ tap to play from here
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
adapted from john steinbeck's east of eden starring florence pugh ▶ tap to play from here
Best Of: Kyle MacLachlan / Inside the ‘romance scam’
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Dune
Frank Herbert
lynch was making an adaptation of frank herbert's nineteen sixty five science fiction novel dune ▶ tap to play from here
American Hogwan
Min Jin Lee
min jin lee's new novel american hogwan is the third in her projected four novel series about the korean diaspora ▶ tap to play from here
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
pachenko the second in the series was a finalist for the national book award ▶ tap to play from here
Celebrating minimalist composer Steve Reich
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Sheryl Crow
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Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
such as capturing the weight of mexico's past like juan rufus pedro paramo ▶ tap to play from here
The Shining
Stephen King
or exploring one's own madness as stanley kubrick does in his adaptation of stephen king's much saner the shining ▶ tap to play from here
New drones, deadlier attacks: Dystopian reality in Ukraine
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Mahmoud Khalil’s 104 days in ICE Detention
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No Land to Stand On
Mahmoud Khalil
his new memoir drawn in part from the diary he kept in detention is called no land to stand on ▶ tap to play from here
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