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From The Daily Princetonian, Book-ish is more than a book review podcast: every other Saturday, listen for a candid discussion of a great book –– ranging to thoughts inside and outside the text at large. Book-ish is written and hosted by Gabriel Robare and produced by Francesca Block under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian. The theme was composed and performed by Robare, and the cover art is by Sydney Peng. Have a book you want us to review, or want to talk about a previous episode? Send us an email at podcast@dailyprincetonian.com.

Episodios

  1. This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

    01/05/2021

    This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

    It’s the end of a long semester. I’ve now spent just about one full academic year as a Princeton student, the last three months of it here on campus, in the best old place of all, just south of Nassau Street. Princeton’s a strange, strange place, at least the one I’ve experienced for the last year or so. It’s full of distinctly odd and incredibly talented people. And they’re all made more odd and more strange in their proximity to everyone else. There’s a particular spirit of the place, a blend of prestige, history, and emotion that hovers over campus like a wet fog. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first book, This Side of Paradise, may be the definitive account of that spirit. The story of Amory Blaine’s jaunt through Princeton is set in 1917, but the school and its people haven’t changed all that much since then –– at least, as far as I’ve seen. Reading it now, at the end of my first year here, was like staring into a mirror for too long: uncomfortable, revealing, and beautiful. Every Princeton student should read it. Why? Listen in. This podcast was written and recorded by Gabe Robare, and was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian. It was edited by Cammie Lee and produced by Francesca Block with copy-editing and production help from Isabel Rodrigues. Have a book you want us to review, or want to talk about a previous episode? Send us an email at podcast@dailyprincetonian.com.

    19 min
  2. The Founding Fish - John McPhee

    17/04/2021

    The Founding Fish - John McPhee

    I play basketball in the park every morning –– I’m not any good at it. Standing five foot, eight inches tall, I don’t have the physical tools, and I’m not especially athletic. Skill does develop through practice, but slowly. Here’s the thing. When I go out and play basketball, I could make every shot if I stood next to the basket and shot layups. But where’s the fun in that? I run around and chuck up three-pointers, try to make shots off one foot from the corner, and shoot from behind the backboard. I miss a lot of shots. And it’s more fun that way. My shots at the park in the morning, I think, are like how John McPhee chooses topics to write books about. It’s easy to shoot layups, and it’s easy to write books about popular topics, like World War II or Henry VIII. But McPhee chooses to instead shoot threes from half-court: he writes books about esoteric, strange topics, like orange production in Florida or the Pine Barrens of south Jersey, or, as in The Founding Fish, about the history of shad fishing in America. Wild topics, I know. And here’s the thing. McPhee never shoots a layup. But he makes all his shots. Listen in.

    20 min
  3. The Footnote - Anthony Grafton

    03/04/2021

    The Footnote - Anthony Grafton

    Anthony Grafton’s book, “The Footnote”, digs into the history of citation. I sat down with him to talk about his book, how history is made, how we understand the past, and the nature of truth. The humble little footnote is behind it all. Listen in.

    17 min
  4. How to Live - Sarah Bakewell

    20/03/2021

    How to Live - Sarah Bakewell

    Few inventions can truly be attributed to one person. We say Edison made the lightbulb, and we say Bell made the telephone, but in reality both of them were just at the end of a long line of cumulative innovations. Michel de Montaigne, the Renaissance French writer, is one of the few true innovators in human history. Before Montaigne first published his Essays in 1580, the personal essay did not exist. After Montaigne, it was one of the most popular art forms in Europe. Montaigne was to literature what Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Grandmaster Flash were to popular music, combined. Innumerable writers since the 1580s have been influenced by Montaigne and saw themselves in his Essays, as Sarah Bakewell writes in her biography of him, How to Live. Ever since the book came out, Montaigne has been an extremely relatable figure in contemporary society. After having read Montaigne, Stefan Zweig said “Here is a ‘you’ in which my ‘I’ is reflected; here is where all distance is abolished.” More simply –– Bernard Levin said “How did he know all that about me?” Listen to the latest Book-ish podcast to find out.

    20 min
  5. American Primitive – Mary Oliver

    06/03/2021

    American Primitive – Mary Oliver

    It’s the beginning of March in Princeton, New Jersey. Packed snow from a succession of February storms remains sturdy and tired on the ground. It doesn’t seem to want to leave, although the snowmen have long since collapsed into heaps of mush. Today I come to you with a ballad, a song of seasons passing, of nature, and of our place in it, to warm you when Princeton’s climate surely won’t. I’ll tell you about Mary Oliver and American Primitive, her Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poems. And together we will learn what it is to live in nature. Listen in to the newest episode of Book-ish, a Prospect podcast.

    14 min
  6. A Mathematician's Apology – G.H. Hardy

    20/02/2021

    A Mathematician's Apology – G.H. Hardy

    Have you ever thought, in a math class, “Why on Earth do I need to know this? I have a calculator in my pocket!” Or maybe, “There is no way I will ever need to know the derivative of the natural logarithm of x-squared. Math is useless.” (The derivative is two over x, by the way.) G. H. Hardy, one of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century, would agree with you: math is useless. You’ll never need it. In A Mathematician’s Apology, Hardy says it himself: “Is mathematics ‘useful,’ directly useful, as other sciences such as chemistry and physiology are? This is not an altogether easy or uncontroversial question, and I shall ultimately say No.” And yet: Hardy still thinks math is worth your while. Why? Listen in to our newest episode of Book-ish to find out.

    16 min
  7. Emma – Jane Austen

    06/02/2021

    Emma – Jane Austen

    In the summer before my senior year of high school, I read my first Jane Austen novel, Emma. And I hated it. But then, I read it again, this past winter, wanting to give it another chance. And I loved it. In this episode, I’ll tell you why.

    11 min
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From The Daily Princetonian, Book-ish is more than a book review podcast: every other Saturday, listen for a candid discussion of a great book –– ranging to thoughts inside and outside the text at large. Book-ish is written and hosted by Gabriel Robare and produced by Francesca Block under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian. The theme was composed and performed by Robare, and the cover art is by Sydney Peng. Have a book you want us to review, or want to talk about a previous episode? Send us an email at podcast@dailyprincetonian.com.

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    The 'Prince' On Air
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