Turek Books Podcast

Recorded remotely from Bad Animal Books in Santa Cruz, CA. Joshua Turek and Maddy Power Maddy shares her personal experience of losing her home and books in the Eaton Canyon Fire in Alta Dena and the two books she grabbed before evacuating

To sign up to Joshua's Zoom Poetry Weekend Workshop visit joshuaturek.com

Books talked about include:

Werener Herzog's Guide for the Perplexed

Agnes Varda interviews

David Sedaris “Theft and Finding”

bell hooks "The Will to Change"

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On a pit stop in Santa Cruz with family between dates on my comedy tour (Get your tickets to my San Diego show Friday and L.A., SF, Eureka, next week then Seattle and Portland) before heading up the west coast. I get into a little of what I'm reading, my favorite bookstores so far on this trip, and why I took this podcast off of Spotify (hint they're evil). Come to my shows if I'm in your city!

All my shows

7/11 San Diego

7/16 L.A.

7/18&19 SF

7/20 Eureka

7/25 Seattle

8/15 Portland

8/21-23 Boise

8/27 Tulsa

8/28 Kansas City

8/29 New Orleans

9/6 Tucson

Books Talked About:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Meet Me in the Bathroom

Perfect Victims - Mohammed El Kurd

Our American Israel - Amy Kaplan

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad

Blue Desert - Charles Bowden

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Officially on my comedy tour across the United States during particularly distressing times. It took six nights and five days but the morning after my first headlining show at Rodney's in Manhattan I managed some time to visit the staple bookstore of NYC "The Strand". CHICAGO my show at Zanies is tonight! Tickets are getting low. You can use discout code TUREK10 for $15.75 tickets here. The rest of my tour is here with more dates and cities to come so follow my bandsintown to get notified for when I come to yours. Tour dates below.

6/24 CHICAGO

6/27 PHILADELPHIA

6/29 DALLAS 

7/11 SAN DIEGO

7/16 L.A.

7/18&19 SF

7/20 EUREKA

7/25 SEATTLE

8/15 PORTLAND

8/21-23 BOISE

8/27 TULSA

8/28 KANSAS CITY

8/29 NEW ORLEANS

9/6 TUCSON

9/18 TAMPA

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Comedian Cam George of Talking Talk Tuah now Talking Talk podcast discusses being mystified by Infinite Jest and encountering this red flag memed book with new eyes.

Joshua's U.S. comedy tour starts this Saturday in New York City. That's Saturday night June 21 at Rodney's on the Upper Eastside. Followed by Chicago on Tuesday June 24 at Zanies. Philadelphia June 27. Dallas June 29 and more. Get tickets now! For all things Joshua Turek go to joshuaturek.com

Books Talked About Include:

Infinite jest

sound and the fury

all the pretty horses

blood meridian

lonesome dove

confederacy of dunces

hunger games

girl with the dragon tattoo

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Catch Joshua on tour! New York City show is in two weeks at Rodney's on 6/21! Chicago at Zainies 6/24! Philly at Next in Line Comedy 6/27! And More....Just added New Orleans! Boise! Coming soon with more dates. Follow my Bandsintown to be notified! And order signed copies of my poetry book

EMT and Political Creator Hugo of Seize the Means Shirts talks reading 70 books a year with host Joshua Turek. Hard to stomach nonfiction and breezy science fiction.

Books talked about include

autobiography of malcom x

how to hide an empire

jakarta method

assada

The word for world is forest

the poppy fields

parable of the sower

parable of the talents

naomi klein shock doctrine

Washington Bullets

King Leopolds ghost

Cobalt Red

the rediscovery of america

the indigenous peoples history of the united states

black against empire

manufacturing consent

inventing reality

fight like hell

uprising by haddix

Braiding sweetgrass

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Catch Joshua Turek on comedy tour this summer of 2025. To get notified of cities and dates follow his bandsintown and to buy signed copies of his new poetry book "Of Dumb Importance" on joshuaturek.com

Writer and filmmaker Evgenia Kovda goes in depth with host Joshua Turek on sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. Did this troubled man predict the future we are living in now or was he the architect of it for bad actors? Evgenia and Joshua discuss the writings of Dick as well as their own serendipitous interactions with each other in changing neighborhoods over the years as well as Josh's visit to her podcast with Yasha Levine "In Bed with the Russians". Check out Evgenia and Yasha's Substack it's a favorite of Turek Books!

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Josh's sister musician and author Britt Warner brings books that make her miss L.A. and her own novella "Swimming with Horses".

For tickets to Josh's Summer of Discontent Comedy Tour 2025 click here and to get a signed copy of the new poetry book "Of Dumb Importance" click here international friends who want to pay normal shipping for the book can get it here

Books talked about include:

Swimming with horses: Britt Warner

Slow Days and Fast Company : Eve Babitz

Didion vs Babitz book

Of Dumb Importance by Joshua Turek

James Gandolfini Bio : Jason Bailey

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Comedian and producer of Chatterbox comedy, Steve Hernandez, talks books about rich men seducing young women, polyamory, his own experiences with fatherhood, open relationships, comedy, and navigating his passions toward the shrinking prizes of industry. For even more on Steve check him out here

Joshua Turek is going on a 2025 summer comedy tour! New York City is first on June 21! Chicago, Philly, Dallas, San Diego, L.A., Eureka, Portland, Seattle, Tulsa, Kansas City, with more dates soon! Follow for tickets and new dates on his bandsintown or to buy tickets directly on his web site where his new poetry book "Of Dumb Importance" should be out any second now and is available for pre-order!

Books Talked About Include:

Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams fb tell all book 

My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy

Open by Rachel Krantz

More by Molly Roden Winter

Writers and Lovers by Lily King

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Zealot by Reza Aslan

The Bible the book of James

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Catch Joshua Turek on his comedy tour this summer! Tickets are up for shows in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, L.A., Eureka, Seattle, Portland, Kansas City with more dates and cities coming soon at joshuaturek.com . First 3 in each city to send proof of tickets to [email protected] get a free copy of Josh's new poetry book after the corresponding show!

Musician and sign language interpreter Dominique Matelson joins host Joshua Turek to discuss the pleasures and pitfalls of fantasy and how books from I Spy to Clarice Lespecter have helped her integrate her well being and creativity. Check out Dominique here https://www.instagram.com/dominiquematelson/ also wait until the very end to hear the song of hers "When I Told a Lie" they reference at the beginning of the conversation (music video on YouTube).

Books Talked About Include:

Books talked about include

I SPY Fantasy/Mystery

Clarice lespecter’s Complete Stories

No One Belongs Here More Than You Miranda July

All Fours Miranda July

Crime and Punishment

Confederacy of Dunces

Dunce Mary Ruefle

Alex’s journal Alex Cleo Rouboud

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Catch Joshua Turek on comedy tour this summer! Tickets are up for shows in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, L.A., Seattle, Portland, Kansas City with more dates and cities coming soon at joshuaturek.com

Author of "The Body is a Doorway", Sophie Strand talks with host Joshua Turek about her memoir, mycellial networks, books as guides to our psychic lives, and how both of them want to open bookstores. Check out Sophie's work here https://sophiestrand.com/

Books talked about include:

Plants in the imaginale realm

Ursula Leguin The Language of the Night

A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman

Joan of Arc by herself and her witnesses

Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry

Books by Larry Mcmurtry

the One Inside Sam Shepherd

Joseph Campbell myth books

Confederacy of Dunces

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