On Books

On Books

64 episodes

On Books is a podcast about books. Think of it as a two-person book club — or a series of thirty-minute audiobooks. Each week on the show Chris Castiglione brings you a new book. Highlights include: Mating in Captivity, Sapiens, Sex at Dawn, Letters to a Young Poet, Educated, How Not to Die, Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Zero Waste Home, The Artist's Way, Conscious Capitalism, Blink, as well as exclusive interviews with Neil Strauss, Haruki Murakami, Kevin Kelly, Peter Singer and more.

Podcasts

63: The Social Good Book Series: The Long Now Interview with Zander Rose (Part 4)

Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 3 seconds

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62: Love Hurts: Buddhist Advice for the Heartbroken by Lordo Rinzler

Published: Oct. 25, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari [Rebroadcast]

Published: Oct. 18, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 47 seconds

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Buy the Change You Want to See

Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 40 seconds

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Educated by Tara Westover

Published: Oct. 4, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 1 second

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How Not To Die

Published: Sept. 27, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Conscious Capitalism with Corey Blake

Published: Sept. 20, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 27 seconds

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How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand

Published: Sept. 13, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Published: Sept. 13, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 55 seconds

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50 Ways to Get a Job with Dev Aujla

Published: Sept. 6, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 17 seconds

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Chuck Klosterman, "Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past"

Published: Aug. 30, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 51 seconds

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds

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Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 18 seconds

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Mastering Bitcoin & The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds

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Ego Is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday

Published: July 26, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 16 seconds

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Sam Arbesman on The Half-Life of Facts

Published: July 19, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 5 seconds

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Book Summary: Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson (Part 1) [The Social Good Book Series]

Published: June 21, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds

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On Reading Haruki Murakami: What does it mean to follow an authors canon of work?

Published: June 14, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 47 seconds

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Peter Singer on doing "The most good you can do", Rapidfire Q&A, and Social Good Startups

Published: May 24, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 22 seconds

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Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

Published: April 26, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds

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Kevin Kelly on The Inevitable, 60s Counterculture, and How to Read Better

Published: April 12, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 56 seconds

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The Social Good Book Series: The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

Published: March 29, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 34 seconds

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The Social Good Books Series: The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer

Published: March 15, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 17 seconds

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 19 seconds

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The Social Good Books Series: The Long Now (Part 3)

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 11 seconds

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Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country (Part 2)

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds

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The Social Good Books Series: The Long Now (Part 2)

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 34 seconds

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The Social Good Books Series: The Long Now (Part 1)

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 41 seconds

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Leave The World Better Than How You Found It

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds

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The Overstory by Richard Powers

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 19 seconds

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Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country (Part 1)

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 57 seconds

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So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 51 seconds

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Aziz Ansari: On Modern Romance and Increasing Creative Output

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 44 seconds

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Writing Tools (50 Essential Strategies) by Roy Peter Clark

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 23 seconds

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When do you quit? When do you stick? 5 Lessons from Seth Godin in The Dip

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 32 seconds

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Say Hello to On Books!

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds

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10 Life-Changing Spring Cleaning Tips from The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 41 seconds

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Bringing up Bebe: Paris vs. New York City, on Raising Children, and Education

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds

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Eric Fromm on The Art of Loving, Is Love an Art? Is your love Passive or Active?

Published: Aug. 24, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 13 seconds

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The Artist's Way, 2 big takeaways, and how to be creative 750 words at a time

Published: Aug. 10, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds

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The Neil Strauss Interview: on The Truth, and alternatives to monogamy

Published: July 13, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 20 - David Bowie's Top 100 Books

Published: July 13, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds

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Deep Work by Cal Newport

Published: July 6, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 19 - On Creating Big Hairy Audacious Life Goals, and the NPR Interview

Published: June 29, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 18 New Year's Resolutions, Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset, How to Reframe Failure

Published: June 15, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 17 - John Keegan on the art of connection, dating in New York City and The Power of Now

Published: May 25, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 16 - The Power of Now (Book Highlights! Ego at Burningman! and on "being alone")

Published: May 18, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 15 - How to Learn Anything Fast

Published: May 4, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 2 seconds

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Episode 14 - Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan

Published: April 27, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 13 - Writing Movies for Fun and Profit by Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon

Published: April 6, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 12 - Thinking Fast and Slow (Part 2) on Happiness

Published: March 23, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 11 - Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (chat with Alex Miles Younger)

Published: March 9, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 10 Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch (A Book Chat with Kevin Allison of RISK!)

Published: Feb. 24, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes

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Episode 9 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 18 seconds

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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Published: Jan. 27, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 5 seconds

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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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Ending Aging

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 35 seconds

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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 5 - Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 4 - The Three Stages of Startup Growth

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 3 - Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 1 - Jim Henson

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 10 seconds

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Love Hurts: Buddhist Advice for the Heartbroken by Lordo Rinzler

Published: Aug. 21, 2019, 9:09 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds

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The Social Good Book Series: The Long Now Interview with Zander Rose (Part 4)

Published: May 23, 2016, 10:07 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 2 - Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

Published: July 8, 2015, 5:49 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 57 seconds

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