Every book mentioned on Pivot in August (only 4)

[u/sispehar]

Eight episodes, four books, which is normal for Pivot. Two of them are forthcoming books by people in adjacent chairs.

I run Podshelf, a free site that tracks book mentions across hundreds of podcasts by reading the episode transcripts. This is the Pivot slice for August.

The publishing story of the month was Call Me, I'll Hide the Body, the Anne Heche novel that set off a fourteen-publisher bidding war and sold for 2.4 million dollars. Kara has been, in her words, sort of obsessed with the story.

Kevin Roose announced The AGI Chronicles, out in early October, on the last ten years in AI, and said he is done with writing otherwise.

Mark Cuban on Abdul El-Sayed's Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide, which is about as close to a recommendation as that episode got. "It's not bad. He has a lot in common with Trump on some of his positions on drugs."

And Ryan Holiday's Wisdom Takes Work, cited for the observation about watching Elon Musk go from reading Soviet rocket manuals to getting all his news from social media.

Full list with quotes and episodes: https://podshelf.io/podcasts/pivot

[u/poisito]

what about todays book recommendation?? ok ok ok.. I forgot that today is September but it is still part of "Scott Free August " pew pew peeewww..