Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is Rowling’s sixth… okay look, this episode description isn’t going to make any difference, right? Either you’re a Harry Potter fan and you’re going to listen to...
13 Sep 202128min
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Jane Austen began writing Sense and Sensibility as a 20-year-old first-time author, in a time when women had incredible difficulty being published at all and, uh... boy do we have notes! Plus, Dave wa...
6 Sep 202126min
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
If you ever feel depressed that your job isn’t inherently meaningful, read this book so the author can tell you that NOTHING is meaningful! Really puts things in perspective. But seriously, Sapiens is...
30 Aug 202129min
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Ever notice how every single Count is obsessed with killing people? Olaf, Dracula, Dooku, Monte Cristo....Today’s book is A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Listen to it while eating so...
23 Aug 202124min
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Sometimes after slogging through some technical, academic books like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, we like to kick back with a real thriller like Good Economics for Hard Times. We both really lik...
16 Aug 202127min
THE ROAST OF: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
In 2004, feminist author Stephenie Meyer critiqued the romance genre with her parody book, Twilight, featuring a man so abusive and a woman so dull that no one could ever admire either character. Toda...
9 Aug 202135min
We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of Back to the Future by Caseen Gaines
Back to the Future is a story of a 17-year-old high-schooler hanging out with a super, super old man, much like our upcoming episode on Twilight. We Don’t Need Roads tells the story behind this ground...
2 Aug 202137min
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
The longest Harry Potter book, and the only one that is named after a city in Arizona. We explore how the emotions of this book resonate so forcefully, why it pays off so effectively, and why Professo...
26 Jul 202130min
