Season 1 guests and their books

S1 E1: Chris Weitz   

Producer, Writer, Director: AMERICAN PIE, ABOUT A BOY, NEW MOON, THE GOLDEN COMPASS, ROGUE ONE 

Chris's Books:

Other Books Discussed:

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak; Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak; They Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope; A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver; Salt by Nayyirah Waheed; Larousse Gastronomique ed: Prosper Montagne

S1 E2: Felicity Huffman

Actress: DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, TRANSAMERICA, AMERICAN CRIME

Felicity's Books:

Other Books Discussed:

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins; Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders; The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown; Blessings of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel; Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling; King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry; Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott; Boy by Roald Dahl; Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr; The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr; 4321 by Paul Auster; 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James; Ironweed by William Kennedy

S1 E3: David Goyer

Producer, Writer, Director: BLADE TRILOGY, DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY, BATMAN VS SUPERMAN, FLASH FORWARD, DA VINCI

David's Books: 

Other Books Discussed:

Sandman by Neil Gaiman; The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper; Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor; For the Time Being by Annie Dillard; The Abundance by Annie Dillard; The Hike by Drew Magary; The Adventures of the Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach; The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

S1 E4: Julie Bowen

 Actress: ED, BOSTON LEGAL, LOST, MODERN FAMILY 

Julie's Books:

Other Books Discussed: 

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance; The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett; Mandy by Julie Edwards; Are You There God It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume; The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger; At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard; The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson; The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides; Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; Last Night by James Salter; The Boat by Nam Le; This Book will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes; A Little Lie by Hanya Yanagihara; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter; The Essential Rumi translated by Howard Barker

S1 E5: Sean Carroll

Physics Professor, Cosmologist, Author: FROM ETERNITY TO HERE, THE PARTICLE AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE, THE BIG PICTURE: ON THE ORIGINS OF LIFE, MEANING, AND THE UNIVERSE ITSELF

Sean's Books:

Other Books Discussed: 

Mr. Thompkins by George Gamow; works by Ursula Le Guin; The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell; Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon; Night Film by Marisha Pessl; Doomsday Book by Connie Willis; The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson; The Columbia Encyclopedia by William Bridgwater

S1 E6: Mireille Enos

Actress: BIG LOVE, THE KILLING, WORLD WAR Z, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, THE CATCH

Mireille’s Books:

Other Books Discussed:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth; M Train by Patti Smith; Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos; Stoner by John Williams; The Poems of Dylan Thomas; The Foreign Student by Susan Choi; The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky; On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman

S1 E7: Jon Hamm

Actor, Director: MAD MEN, 30 ROCK, BRIDESMAIDS, FRIENDS WITH KIDS, THE TOWN, BABY DRIVER

Jon’s Books:

Other Books Discussed:

Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan; Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky; The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson; The Godfather by Mario Puzo; Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley; The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving; Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald; Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce; Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges; The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco; A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin; Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; The Norton Anthology of American Literature ed: Robert S. Levine

S1 E8: Jenni Konner

Writer, Producer, Show Runner: GIRLS, LENNY LETTER

Jenni’s Books:

Other Books Discussed:

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran; The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank; Independence Day by Richard Ford; Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; Between Them: Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford; The Sportswriter by Richard Ford; The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford; The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr; A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter; In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust; A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout; The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky; Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty; Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn; The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

S1 E9: Cass Sunstein

Professor at Harvard Law School, Author: NUDGE, #REPUBLIC, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO STAR WARS, SIMPLER

Cass’s Books:

Other Books Discussed:

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; My Life in Baseball: The True Record by Ty Cobb; The Encyclopedia of Sports by Frank G Menke; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; James Bond novels by Ian Fleming; Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett; Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett; Justice is Fairness by John Rawls; The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer; Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris; Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes; works by Anthony Trollope; Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan; works by Harlan Coben; The Snowman (Harry Hole Series) by Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett; Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger; Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman and Paul Slovic

S1 E10: Jared Harris

Actor: MAD MEN, THE CROWN, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, LINCOLN, SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS, ALLIED

Jared’s Books:

Other Books Discussed:

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce; works by Samuel Beckett; The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas; Sophocles: The Complete Plays by Sophocles; A Murder Is Announced (Adapted for the Stage) by Leslie Darbon and Agatha Christie; On the Technique of Acting by Michael Chekhov; Hamlet by William Shakespeare; King Lear by William Shakespeare; The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare; Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare; Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare    

S1 E11: Sonya Walger

Actress: MIND OF THE MARRIED MAN, TELL ME YOU LOVE ME, SLEEPER CELL, LOST, FLASH FORWARD, THE CATCH

Sonya’s Books:

Other Books Discussed:

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson; Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson; works by W. Somerset Maugham; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver; Gjelina: Cooking from Venice, California by Travis Lett and Michael Graydon; Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden and Martha Holmberg; The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe; The Lover by Harold Pinter; The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard; Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon; The Power by Naomi Alderman; A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara; The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy by Richard Ford; Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth

S1 E12: Robin Coste Lewis

Poet Laureate of Los Angeles: VOYAGE OF THE SABLE VENUS

Robin’s Books:

Other Books Discussed:

Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry ed: A. P. Wavell; For My People by Margaret Walker; Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis; Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg; On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf; The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes; Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity by Stephen Halliwell; The Mahabharata; The Oxford English Dictionary (unabridged)

Season 2 coming soon.....

 

 
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