Guest on Conversations with Tyler
2 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Just like I read Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting after I learned Czech. It was part of my Czech language training at Berkeley.”
Why: It served as a valuable part of his language training and discovery of the region's culture.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Guest on Conversations with TylerStephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography
“so I went up to him as a naive with the this book Madness and Civilization which we had been forced to read and I started asking him questions…”
Why: It provided foundational insights into how micropower functions in daily life.
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
Guest on Conversations with TylerStephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography