Like many other people with curious minds, I read a lot, and other curious people ask me about it. The same goes for things I listen to. For the curious, here is a quick look at what’s on my bedside table and my iPod.
Books I’m Currently Reading
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Harry Mulisch, Siegfried
Dorothy Dunnett, Niccoló Rising
Arthur Phillips, The Egyptologist
Jo Nesbø , The Redbreast
Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire
Heinrich Rühmann, Opfersagen des Zwergen- und Hausgeistkults
Books Next Up:
David Finkel, The Good Soldiers
Books & Podcasts I’m Currently Listening To:
Philip Jenkins, The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia–and How It Died
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic
The Moth podcast
(Splotchy selection of storytellers, but often brilliant, especially when it avoids “stories” that are actually political rants or a little too “I grew up on Long Island/Manhattan/Brooklyn/Jersey with a weird family and I was the funny one but nobody knows why anymore and isn’t that interesting.” Recently, I’ve really enjoyed the stories told by Steve Zimmer, Paul Nurse, Joe Jackson, A.J. Jacobs, and James Braly.)
The Intelligence Squared podcast (Oxford style debating by experts on current events and policy issues)
The Slate Culture Gabfest podcast
John Crace Digested Read podcast (all your favorite books… satirized)
New York Times Book Review podcast
New Yorker Fiction podcast
