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Episode Synopsis
Hiker, podcaster, and professor of philosophy and religious studies Zach Simpson tells us about autobiography, the way we're shaped by reading, and the skilled misdirections of detective fiction. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and shows!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! 4 Non Blondes Al-Ghazali Deliverance from Error Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy Augustine of Hippo The Confessions Marcus Aurelius Averroes Walter Benjamin The Book of Judges Jorge Luis Borges Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Roberto Calasso Literature and the Gods Italo Calvino If On a Winter's Night a Traveler Car and Driver Lee Child Jack Reacher series Cicero Michael Connelly Harry Bosch series Michael ConnellyThe Lincoln Lawyer series Gilles Deleuze Mark Fisher Gustave Flaubert Sigmund Freud Gabriel García Márquez Alasdair Gray Lanark: A Life in Four Books The Greens and Blues 14er Podcast Frederic Gros A Philosophy of Walking Barbara Guest Herself Defined: H. D. and Her World Rob Harvilla Sixty Songs that Explain the Nineties Václav Havel Martin Heidegger Hermann Hesse Dave Hickey Homer Aldous Huxley Island Isocrates Samuel Johnson / James Boswell A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland / The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides John Kaag Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are Margery Kempe Lamentations John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding Martin Luther Table Talk Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Daniel Mendelsohn Metallica "Enter Sandman" Georg Misch A History of Autobiography in Antiquity Thomas More Utopia Maggie Nelson Friedrich Nietzsche Ecce Homo Oprah's Book Club Eric Ellis OvermeyerBosch Reese's Book Club Rick Riordan Percy Jackson and the Olympians Gerry Roach Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau Origins of Inequality Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract Saturday Night Live "Thank You, Scott" William Shakespeare The Tempest William Shakespeare Henry IV Zachary Simpson The Paradoxes of Modernity Sophocles Sports Illustrated Taylor Swift Ibn Tufayl Hayy ibn Yaqzan Article on the tale by Marwa Elshakry Mark Twain Roughing It Emily Wilson
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