Evolutionary biologist Zachary Blount tells us why you have to read widely to be a good scientist, as well as what makes for good horror and great bookstores.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
Episode artwork: Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker, image with no known copyright restrictions courtesy Smithsonian Institution and Wikimedia Commons
Want to learn more about the books, authors—and films!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon!
Mary Beard Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Walter Benjamin "Unpacking My Library"
Barbara Butcher What the Dead Know: Learning about Life as a New York City Death Investigator
Hélène Cixous Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang
Johnny Compton The Spite House
Mark Z. Danielewski House of Leaves
Adrian Goldworthy Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
Kathleen Hale Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
Grady Hendrix Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Dave Hickey Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
Tom Holland Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Brad J. Kallenberg By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering
Stephen King The Dark Tower
Stephen King Holly
Victor Klemperer The Language of the Third Reich
James Merrill From the First Nine. Poems 1946–1976
David Robert Mitchell It Follows
David Morrell Thomas DeQuincy Series
Jordan Peele Get Out
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon
Paul Tremblay The Beast You Are
Gore Vidal Kalki
Anna Wiener Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
