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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
“it's spectacular; It's an incredible book”
“One of them, for instance, is Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. it's one of his least popular books, and it's spectacular”— Janna Levin
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White Noise
Don DeLillo
“is hilarious and brilliant and incredible”
“Don DeLillo's White Noise, which is also not one of his most famous books, and is hilarious and brilliant and incredible”— Janna Levin
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
“I was possessed by it; it's just unbelievable”
“Cormac McCarthy's The Road. I read that book literally in cabs by streetlight. I read it in less than 24 hours. I was possessed by it”— Janna Levin
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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
“I highly recommend for people listening; They're just so incredible”
“His most recent collection is Exhalation, which I thought could not possibly equal his previous collection, and it maybe surpassed it”— Tim Ferriss
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Arrival
Denis Villeneuve (inferred)
“an incredibly good movie”
“for those people who saw Arrival, which is, I think, an incredibly good movie exploring the impact of language and orthography”— Tim Ferriss
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Draft No. 4
John McPhee
“is definitely worth taking a look at; It's worth the read”
“Draft No. 4 by John McPhee is definitely worth taking a look at. It's worth the read. It's very nerdy”— Tim Ferriss
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Levels of the Game
John McPhee
“for people who really want a wonderful book to read; is just incredible”
“John McPhee wrote a book called Levels of the Game. if you want an idea of how to structure a book in a really elegant interesting way, this is a book”— Janna Levin
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Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace
“Everyone should read that”
“Consider the Lobster. Everyone should read that. And every one of those essays is loaded with unbelievable insights”— Janna Levin
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The Art of Nonfiction (Paris Review interview with John McPhee)
The Paris Review
“He's a virtuoso of nonfiction”
“there is a series of interviews that John McPhee did with the Paris Review in a series they do called the art of nonfiction”— Tim Ferriss
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From Eternity to Here
Sean Carroll
“a wonderful book; it's really a really nice read”
“our friend Sean Carroll has written a wonderful book called from eternity to here which lays these issues out and I think it's really a really nice read”— Janna Levin
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A Brave and Startling Truth (Universe in Verse poetry reading)
Maya Angelou
“It is such a stunning piece of work; It's not only Maya Angelou at her best”
“that is a brave and startling truth. This is from the 2018 Universe in Verse. This is a poetry reading that has gone effectively viral”— Tim Ferriss
The guest's own work
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How the Universe Got Its Spots
Janna Levin
“Her books include how the universe got its spots and a novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won the PEN/Bingham Prize”— Tim Ferriss
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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Janna Levin
“a novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won the PEN/Bingham Prize”— Tim Ferriss
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Janna Levin
“Her last book, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space is the inside story on the discovery of the century”— Tim Ferriss
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Black Hole Survival Guide
Janna Levin
“Her newest book, Black Hole Survival Guide is scheduled for publication at the end of 2020”— Tim Ferriss
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Life on a Mobius Strip (The Moth talk)
Janna Levin
“You gave a great talk via the Moth called Life on a Mobius strip. Why did you use the phrase Mobius strip?”— Tim Ferriss
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Tribe of Mentors
Tim Ferriss
“an answer that you provided very graciously in my last book Tribe of Mentors. I asked the question in the last 5 years, what new belief”— Tim Ferriss
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
“Toni Morrison's Beloved was the first one where she prepared me to slow down and to appreciate the depth of the language”— Janna Levin
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RadioLab
WNYC (inferred)
“I was listening to an episode of RadioLab recently talking about colors and the perception of colors and what a rainbow would look like to a dog”— Tim Ferriss
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Pac-Man
Namco (inferred)
“Let's look at Pac-Man, which just turned 40 or something like that. You know how Pac-Man goes off the right side of the frame”— Janna Levin
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Little, Big
John Crowley (inferred)
“I became enamored of a separate novel called Little Big that I can talk for hours about it”— Tim Ferriss
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The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
“There's another I think it's called The Order of Time. I have it. I'm planning on reading it”— Tim Ferriss
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
“was it seven brief lessons? It was a different one. Yeah, seven brief lessons”— Janna Levin
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Interstellar
Christopher Nolan (inferred)
“Interstellar actually got that really right, and I actually want to mention Interstellar because Kip Thorne wrote the treatment for Interstellar”— Janna Levin
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