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Chapter 83: Douglas Rushkoff on divisive duality and designer deaths
Season 1 Episode 83
"Our technologies, markets and cultural institutions, once forces for human connection and expression, now isolate and repress us. It is time to rema…
4 years, 5 months ago
Chapter 82: Quentin Tarantino on preferring penny paperbacks and perfecting the process
Season 1 Episode 82
What was your first Tarantino experience?
I was thirteen years old in an unfinished basement watching Reservoir Dogs on VHS and can still remember …
4 years, 6 months ago
Chapter 81: Dave Eggers on surreptitious spying in the snares of surveillance
Season 1 Episode 81
I discovered Dave Eggers in the late 90s when the Internet was all belts and pinions and the only two comedy websites that I remember reading were Th…
4 years, 6 months ago
Bookmark: SXSW 2019 - Building Trust in Distrustful Times
Season 1
3 Books is published on the lunar calendar.
I share one new chapter of the show on the exact minute of every single full moon and every single new mo…
4 years, 6 months ago
Chapter 80: Kristin Neff on allowing, accepting, and applying anger artfully
Season 1 Episode 80
Are you ready for a brain workout?
Are you ready for a mind expanding conversation with the incredible Dr. Kristin Neff?
Kristin received her doctora…
4 years, 7 months ago
Chapter 79: Yuyi Morales on Mexican massacres and the magic of Márquez
Season 1 Episode 79
"The Ys sounds like Js," Yuyi Morales tells me when I ask for the correct way to pronounce her name. It's embarrassing to ask but my detective work o…
4 years, 7 months ago
Chapter 78: Louis Sacher on sideways stories from Salinger to Steinbeck
Season 1 Episode 78
I was a tiny and skinny kid with thick glasses at my public school in the suburbs of Toronto in the early 80s. I was pretty lonely and definitely had…
4 years, 8 months ago
Chapter 77: Jonny Sun on absurd algorithms altering the authenticity of art
Season 1 Episode 77
Happy Pink Moon, everybody!
Way back in 2017, I came across a feature article in The New York Times Magazine called "A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a …
4 years, 8 months ago
Chapter 76: Jenny Lawson on dark dollhouses delivering a door from depression
Season 1 Episode 76
Do you suffer from anxiety disorder? Depression? Intrusive thoughts? Obsessive compulsive disorder? Voluntary hair pulling? Avoidant personality diso…
4 years, 8 months ago
Chapter 75: George Saunders offers lessons on living a luminous life
Season 1 Episode 75
3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter di…
4 years, 9 months ago