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Books featured on the podcast "If Books Could Kill" hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri. "The airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds."

  1. In Covid's Wake by ,

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    The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half …

    Phil in SF says:

    Two political scientists look back at a deadly pandemic and ask, "could we have done even less?"

  2. Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by 

    Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of …

    Phil in SF says:

    Did you know that in the split-second it took you to read the title of this episode, your subconscious already figured out that it was going to be extremely good?

  3. He's Just Not That Into You by ,

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    He says:

    Oh sure, they say they're busy. They say that they didn't have even a moment in their insanely …

    Phil in SF says:

    How one comedian's offhand advice launched a decent TV episode, a mediocre book and a terrible movie.

  4. Summer of Our Discontent by 

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    In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints …

    Phil in SF says:

    Peter and Michael discuss a book that's light on facts and long on sentences.

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