The official “Nonfiction Round Table Year End Review What’s Coming Up Episode”. Featuring a look at the inner workings of the podcast and a look back on the panelists’ favorite episodes from 2016. Sam Zurcher shares some thoughts on his recent reading of The New Tsar – The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers (along with a healthy dose of foreign policy), and Grant Karazsia schools us on Born a Crime by Trevor Noah & The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David Kertzer. Also: Archer references, various instances of humor and a taste of 2017’s upcoming episodes (books for your reading list). Stay vigilant.
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Show Notes & Links
- Star Trek vs. Star Wars | Episode 037
- Passengers (2016 film) – Morten Tyldum (starring Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt)
- Kubrick vs. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey – Novel to Film Comparison | Episode 028
- Beatnik vs. Revolutionary – On the Road by Jack Kerouac + Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara | Episode 026
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler … Three Guys Discuss a Novel – Italo Calvino | Episode 031
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“How can you trust somebody who looks like they’ve been cloned from a dead shark?” – Dylan Moran on Vladimir Putin – What It Is (2009)
- Dystopian Series episodes
- Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David Kertzer
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Trevor Noah interviews Tomi Lahren
- Leisure Suit Larry
- 2017 Upcoming Episode Reading List (Current Gestation)
- Who was Shakespeare? (Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt / Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare
by Bertram Fields) - It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
- Jazz by Toni Morrison
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Wolf in the White Van by John Darnielle
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- Who was Shakespeare? (Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
