Books That Made Me

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1. Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa

   4 november 2026 · 56 min

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

   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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2. Tim Gunn

   28 oktober 2026 · 45 min

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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. Lees meer

   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

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3. Emily Wilson

   21 oktober 2026 · 51 min

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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! Lees meer

   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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   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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4. Coming October 21st! Books That Made Me

   14 oktober 2026 · 1 min

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   Coming October 21st! The podcast about books and the nerds who love them. Presented by the Strand and hosted by Aidan Flax-Clark. Lees meer

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