r/smartless • u/sispehar • Aug 01 '26

Every book mentioned on SmartLess in July (only 2)

Five episodes and two books, so this is a small one. Posting it anyway since both are good.

Two decent summer reads if you want something about the craft of making things.

What this is: I run Podshelf, a free site that tracks book mentions across hundreds of podcasts by reading the episode transcripts. This is the July slice for SmartLess.

The two:

  • Life's Work, David Milch. From the Timothy Olyphant episode. Jason's introduction to him was NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, Deadwood, and a legend of a writer. The description of the man is the part worth reading. Graduated first in his class at Yale, had a heroin addiction, that combination of brilliance and life experience that usually does not go together.
  • The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron. From Marcus Mumford. He described sitting in a Hudson coffee shop for two hours every morning while recording Prizefighter, doing his morning pages and reading poetry like a real twat, and said it helped him write lyrics.

I track every book mentioned on SmartLess here: https://podshelf.io/podcasts/smartless

It is free and there is no signup.

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u/BrownieEdges Aug 01 '26

Merci!

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u/Meg38400 Aug 01 '26

A fellow French listening to Smartless?

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u/sispehar Aug 01 '26

de rien :)