• EP83: New Year, Old Books, New Ideas

  • Jan 3 2025
  • Length: 57 mins
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EP83: New Year, Old Books, New Ideas

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  • Sam's had himself a little skiing accident, but powers through a mild concussion to lead us thorugh a discussion of Christmas gift-giving (with a deviation into the Icelandic Christmas Book Flood) and the joys of reading books written quite a while ago. But don't worry! We're reading stuff from 2024 and 2025, too. It's a wiiiide-ranging chit-chat here in the New Year, with some deep philosophical stuff, and a focus on:

    - "Anti-Semite and Jew," by John-Paul Sartre (which is in print, thanks Knopf)
    - "Playground," by Richard Powers
    - "Superbloom," by Nicholas Carr (who posits Martin Luther as the world's first influencer)
    - "Heir," by Sabaa Tahir (which we decided is NOT YA; Sam was confusing it with "Black Sun")
    - "The Forever War," by Joe Haldeman (this is important stuff)
    - "The World She Edited," by Amy Reading (Katharine White was, indeed, EB White's wife)
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