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3/320 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
Actor Danielle Brooks has blessings to count
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Colin Kaepernick is still fighting – for justice and for his football career
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Best Of: Life in the Mojave Desert / Director of ‘The Uprising’
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Stories of survival & loss at Ground Zero
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How the WNBA became a political prop in the culture wars
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The Book of Magic
Alice Hoffman
in practical magic too which is based on hoffman's twenty twenty one novel the book of magic ▶ tap to play from here
The Great Refusal, A New Vision of Resistance
Casey Gerald
like our conversation with casey gerald author of the great refusal a new vision of resistance ▶ tap to play from here
How Sept. 11 changed American life
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Homeland: The War on Terror and American Life
Richard Beck
he's a senior writer at n plus one and the author of homeland the war on terror and american life ▶ tap to play from here
We Believe the Children
Richard Beck
his first book we believe the children examine the daycare sex abuse panics of the nineteen eighties ▶ tap to play from here
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
call the elaborate interconnected universe she's constructed in novels such as station eleven and the glass hotel ▶ tap to play from here
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
station eleven her best known novel was published in twenty fourteen ▶ tap to play from here
Casey Gerald says ruining his reputation saved his life
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There Will Be No Miracles Here
Casey Gerald
his memoir there will be no miracles hier was his first report back ▶ tap to play from here
The Great Refusal: A New Vision of Resistance
Casey Gerald
it's called the great refusal a new vision of resistance ▶ tap to play from here
Homeland: The War on Terror and American Life
Richard Beck
his book is called homeland the war on terror and american life ▶ tap to play from here
Rosanne Cash on the gift her father, Johnny Cash, gave her
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
joan diddy's year of magical thinking was great i read the book and i went to see vanessa redgrave perform it ▶ tap to play from here
There Will Be No Miracles Here
Casey Gerald
npr called his 2018 memoir there will be no miracles here one of the year's best books ▶ tap to play from here
The Great Refusal: A New Vision of Resistance
Casey Gerald
his new book is the great refusal a new vision of resistance ▶ tap to play from here
Best Of: ‘Wonder Man’ actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II / John Coltrane centennial
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Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend
Ravi Coltrane
the book is titled coltrane the definitive visual celebration of the legend ▶ tap to play from here
Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem
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My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem
at the time gloria steinem had just published her memoir which was titled my life on the road ▶ tap to play from here
Writing a Woman's Life
Carolyn Heilbrunn
as carolyn heilbrunn has pointed out so brilliantly in in writing a woman's life ▶ tap to play from here
Filmmaker Paul Greengrass on rage, rebellion and ‘The Uprising’
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Back-to-school with Big Tech
0:00 / 46:17
Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools
Natasha Singer
she's written a new book titled coding kids big tech's battle to remake public schools ▶ tap to play from here
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
so if we're reading catcher in the rye in eleventh grade in estonia ▶ tap to play from here
A centennial celebration of John Coltrane
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Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend
Ravi Coltrane
the book is titled coltrane the definitive visual celebration of the legend ▶ tap to play from here
Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake the Schools
Natasha Singer
author of the new book coding kids big tech's battle to remake the schools ▶ tap to play from here
How the government wastes our time
0:00 / 45:47
Give People Money
Annie Lowry
her first book give people money is about universal basic income ▶ tap to play from here
The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time and How to Fix It
Annie Lowry
her new book is the time tax how the government wastes our time and how to fix it ▶ tap to play from here
Best Of: Jason Segel / Lisa Kudrow
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Mexican Gothic
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
the cause was sylvia moreno garcia's horror novel mexican gothic in which fungi become frightful ▶ tap to play from here
The Intrigue
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
moreno garcia who excels at playing around with genre fiction recently brought out a noir novel that set in nineteen forties mexico called the intrigue ▶ tap to play from here
Under the Falls
Richard Russo
this summer richard russo brought out his first crime thriller originally written as a tv script the under the falls is set in upstate new york in a place called stone mountain ▶ tap to play from here
The Blue Flame
George Pelecanos
fourteen years after his last doubting the an older but still streetwise strange returns in the blue flame and investigating two murders that have struck within a once tight group of friends ▶ tap to play from here
Remembering Tim Curry
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It
Stephen King
he also played pennywise in the original abc miniseries version of stephen king's it ▶ tap to play from here
The Time Tax: Power, Justice, and the Trivialization of Every Day
Annie Lowrey
her new book is the time tax ▶ tap to play from here
Riz Ahmed takes on his inner critic
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Dolly Parton
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The Bible
Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T
delly porton in your autobiography you said that when you were young you read everything you could get your hands on the bible the farmer's almanac fairy tales the funeral home directory ▶ tap to play from here
The Old Farmer's Almanac
Unknown
delly porton in your autobiography you said that when you were young you read everything you could get your hands on the bible the farmer's almanac fairy tales the funeral home directory ▶ tap to play from here
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
he started a film adaptation of shakespeare's hamlet and he'll explain why he believes the most famous speech in the english language has been misunderstood for centuries ▶ tap to play from here
The story of the world's first super-terrorist
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The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum
including robert ludl's born identity series and tom clancy's rainbow six ▶ tap to play from here
Rainbow Six
Tom Clancy
including robert ludl's born identity series and tom clancy's rainbow six ▶ tap to play from here
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warwick
he was last on fresh air to talk about his pulitzer prize winning book black flags the rise of isis ▶ tap to play from here
The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos the Jackal, the World's First Super Terrorist
Joby Warwick
his new book is the jackal the rise and fall of carlos the world's first super terrorist ▶ tap to play from here
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
it's a fairly famous novel at the time called the day of the jackal by an author named frederick forsythe ▶ tap to play from here
Mexican Gothic
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
the cause was sylvia moreno garcia's horror novel mexican gothic ▶ tap to play from here
The Intrigue
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
recently brought out a noir novel set in nineteen forties mexico in called the intrigue ▶ tap to play from here
Under the Falls
Richard Russo
originally written as a tv script under the falls is set in upstate new york in a place called stone mountain ▶ tap to play from here
The Blue Flame
George Pelecanos
an older but still streetwise strange returns in the blue flame and investigating two murders that have struck within a once tight group of friends ▶ tap to play from here
Lisa Kudrow
0:00 / 45:40
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
like the harlem in colson whitehead's wonderful just finished trilogy of novels it celebrates a resilient churning vitality ▶ tap to play from here
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