The official "Nonfiction Round Table Year End Review What's Coming Up Episode". Featuring a look at the inner workings of the podcast and a look back on the panelists' favorite episodes from 2016. Sam Zurcher shares some thoughts on his recent reading of The New Tsar - The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers (along with a healthy dose of foreign policy), and Grant Karazsia schools us on Born a Crime by Trevor Noah & The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David Kertzer. Also: Archer references, various instances of humor and a taste of 2017's upcoming episodes (books for your reading list). Stay vigilant.
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Show Notes & Links
Star Trek vs. Star Wars | Episode 037
Passengers (2016 film) - Morten Tyldum (starring Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt)
Kubrick vs. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey – Novel to Film Comparison | Episode 028
Beatnik vs. Revolutionary – On the Road by Jack Kerouac + Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara | Episode 026
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler … Three Guys Discuss a Novel – Italo Calvino | Episode 031
The New Tsar - The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
"How can you trust somebody who looks like they’ve been cloned from a dead shark?" - Dylan Moran on Vladimir Putin - What It Is (2009)
Dystopian Series episodes
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David Kertzer
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah interviews Tomi Lahren
Leisure Suit Larry
2017 Upcoming Episode Reading List (Current Gestation)
Who was Shakespeare? (Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt / Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare
by Bertram Fields)
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Jazz by Toni Morrison
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Wolf in the White Van by John Darnielle
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
