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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers (inferred)
“That's an incredible book, right? In the moment that was like, what is happening? This book is so meta”
“Dave Edgars Pirate Shop, he's got his heartbreaking work of staggering genius comes out. That's an incredible book, right?”— Craig Mod
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The Tim Ferriss Show: Brandon Sanderson interview
Tim Ferriss (inferred)
“that's an incredible interview. Just talk about tenacity. Like infinite infinite tenacity.”
“I listened to the Brandon Sanderson interview. I mean, that's an incredible interview. Just talk about tenacity. Like infinite infinite tenacity.”— Craig Mod
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Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
“I've read that book probably 15, 20 times. I've mapped it out. The language, the poetry of it, the story, the conciseness of it, the economy of the language.”
“one of the first books Lynn recommended to me was Dennis Johnson, Train Dreams. I've read that book probably 15, 20 times. I've mapped it out.”— Craig Mod
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Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje
“this is like a book of poetry in a form of novel/historical fiction. I mean, it's just incredible.”
“Michael Andon, you know, he's first and foremost a poet. You read things like Coming Through Slaughter and this is like a book of poetry in a form of novel”— Craig Mod
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Little, Big
John Crowley
“It checks the boxes that you're talking about... I will recommend that one as well.”
“John Crowley, also a poet, Little Big is the name of the book. It checks the boxes that you're talking about.”— Tim Ferriss
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Freedom
Freedom (inferred)
“just block the internet using like freedom apps like Freedom”
“just block the internet using like freedom apps like Freedom. Turn your smartphone off. Don't sleep with your smartphone in your bedroom.”— Craig Mod
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
“the most beautiful poetic sort of diary... I pick up Annie Dillard. I read two paragraphs. I can't stop myself from running over and starting writing.”
“Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. she just wrote the most beautiful poetic sort of diary non-fiction narrative non-fiction description”— Craig Mod
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Thrilled to Death
Lynne Tillman
“she has a great book that just came out called Thrilled to Death... it's amazing amazing stuff”
“she has a great book that just came out called Thrilled to Death, which if you're going to start Anywhere with Lynn, she's so funny.”— Craig Mod
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Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
“Pattern Recognition is an incredible book. I read it once every couple of years. It's beautiful. There's a lot of poetry in it.”
“Pattern Recognition is an incredible book. I read it once every couple of years. It's beautiful. There's a lot of poetry in it.”— Craig Mod
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Sally Mann documentary (What Remains)
Steven Cantor (inferred)
“my favorite moment of a documentary about photographers is the Sally Man documentary”
“my favorite moment of a documentary about photographers is the Sally Man documentary. she has all these gorgeous ethereal black and white photos”— Craig Mod
The guest's own work
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Things Become Other Things
Craig Mod
“It's my fourthcoming book coming out with Random House. this book is about a walk I did during COVID on the key peninsula of Japan”— Craig Mod
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The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
“Reading Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style over and over and over and over. It's so dogeared my copy of it.”— Craig Mod
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Panasonic Lumix GF1
Panasonic
“This is 2009 and it was the Panasonic GF1. It was this tiny little camera. it was also this amazing camera and it was micro four thirds”— Craig Mod
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The Stranger
Albert Camus (inferred)
“We had both brought The Stranger by Kimu. It was like, oh my god, we're faded.”— Craig Mod
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Neuromancer
William Gibson
“he has a quote that people see in Silicon Valley quite a lot, which is pulled from Neurommancer, the future is already here. It's just unevenly distributed.”— Tim Ferriss
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
David Gelb (inferred)
“it's like quality, quality, quality. There is like a Jirro Dreams of Sushi aspect to it”— Tim Ferriss
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Atomic Habits
James Clear (inferred)
“A lot of this is also like very Atomic Habits style stuff. Who are you going to be? And how are you going to set yourself up to be successful?”— Craig Mod
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