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.
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Al-Ghazali
Deliverance from Error
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
Augustine of Hippo
The Confessions
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 Connelly
The Lincoln Lawyer series
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
Dave Hickey
Homer
Aldous Huxley
Island
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
John Locke
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Martin Luther
Table Talk
Robert Macfarlane
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
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 Overmeyer
Bosch
Reese's Book Club
Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
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
Ibn Tufayl
Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Article on the tale by Marwa Elshakry
Mark Twain
Roughing It
Emily Wilson
