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2 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Paved Paradise, I just finished that, which is a book about like parking lots and cars and car culture. It's very, very good.”
Why: It is very, very good.
Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar
Guest on Conversations with TylerKyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
“It was actually called Cultish by, is it Amanda Montell? Have you heard it? I don't think so. Okay. I might've said her last name wrong, but it was good. It was talking about like, you know, cults of the past and then cults of the present…”
Why: It was good and talks about past and present cults.
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Guest on Conversations with TylerKyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
Named without an opinion attached.
“I just, I've ended up reading a lot of books about it recently. Like Trust is a book that just won the Pulitzer for a few years ago. And that was kind of about the fictionalization of somebody who greatly profited from the Great Recession.”
Trust by Hernán Díaz
Guest on Conversations with TylerKyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
“So when you're young, you're going to libraries a lot, right? And what is it you're reading? And why do you read that stuff? Oh, I read a lot of fiction when I was younger. Yeah. And it was mostly because I was trying to understand world building. Like I was really fascinated by that. So I read the Graceling series and Harry Potter.”
Harry Potter (Series) 1-7 by J. K. Rowling
Guest on Conversations with TylerKyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
“So when you're young, you're going to libraries a lot, right? And what is it you're reading? And why do you read that stuff? Oh, I read a lot of fiction when I was younger. Yeah. And it was mostly because I was trying to understand world building. Like I was really fascinated by that. So I read the Graceling…”
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Guest on Conversations with TylerKyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media