Books That Made Me

Find us on patreon! Comedian Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa explains inside/outside books, cozy bedtime listens, and the overly demure applause of German comedy audiences.

Books that made Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa

• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka
• Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
• Fullmetal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa

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Also discussed!

• George Eliot
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
• The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
• Cinnamon Gardens, Shyam Selvadurai
• Pity the Reader, Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
• Galápagos, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Swamp Thing, Alan Moore
• Laughter in the Dark, Vladimir Nabokov
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
• A Cook’s Tour, Anthony Bourdain
• Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
• Medium Raw, Anthony Bourdain
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Leo Tolstoy
• Anton Chekhov
• The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Find us on patreon! Tim and Aidan compete for who's the biggest dork while sharing their love for Mary Beard, Robert Massie, and Diana Vreeland. Also discussed: Schitt's Creek, weird Etruscan urns, snakes in academia.

Books that made Tim Gunn:

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard
• Peter the Great: His Life and World, Robert K. Massie
• D.V., Diana Vreeland

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Also discussed!

• Twelve Caesars, Mary Beard
• Emperor of Rome, Emperor of Rome
• Greek and Roman Art galleries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Robert K. Massie
• Nicholas and Alexandra, Robert K. Massie
• Schitt’s Creek
• Big Mistakes
• 30 Rock, S1 E12: "Black Tie”
• Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
• Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work, Tim Gunn
• Diana Vreeland Bazaar Years: Including 100 Audacious Why Don’t Yous...?
• Memos: The Vogue Years, 1962–1971, Diana Vreeland
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
• Adam’s Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, Michael Sims

Recorded at Moss, a new and inspired kind of members club where New Yorkers of all types gather in the shared pursuit of intelligent leisure and physical culture.

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Translator extraordinaire Emily Wilson goes deep on everything from proto-YA novels to John Milton. Her latest book is Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea. Support us on Patreon!

Books That Made Emily Wilson:

• Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones
• The Aspern Papers, Henry James
• Paradise Lost, John Milton

Also discussed!

• Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, Tranlsated by Vladimir Nabokov
• “Problems of Translation: Onegin in English,” Vladimir Nabokov
• “On Translating ‘Eugene Onegin,” Vladimir Nabokov
• Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
• Middlemarch, George Eliot
• The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
• Tolstoy: A Biography, A.N. Wilson
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Bee Wilson
• Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, Emily R. Wilson
• Areopagitica and Other Writings, John Milton
• The Aeneid, translated by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright

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Let us know what you think! Email us at [email protected]

Recorded at Moss, a new and inspired kind of members club where New Yorkers of all types gather in the shared pursuit of intelligent leisure and physical culture.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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