The Book Pile
A podcast where comedians tell you about books so you never have to read! (Now including fiction!) Kellen does standup; Dave writes ads; together they highlight lessons from the world’s best books--and some of the worst. New episode every Monday!
Podcasting since 2020 • 201 episodes
The Book Pile
Latest Episodes
A 2nd LOOK AT: Range, by David Epstein
SUMMARY: Do you ever make a books podcast, and start with your favorite books? But unfortunately, your first episodes are also when you’re the worst at podcasting? So years later you revisit those books to do a better job? That’s what this i...
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Season 1
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Episode 201
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27:06
11/22/63 by Stephen King, OUR 200th EPISODE!
SUMMARY: The events from the date of today's book title are part of a long-running joke on the podcast, so we thought it would be funny to cover this novel for our 200th episode...-If you want to read 11/22/63 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 200
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30:51
Re-Issue: The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
SUMMARY: Enjoy this throwback episode from September 2022 when we covered the oldest book on the podcast thus far (though the book with the oldest people is probably still Twilight...). Learn the value of surprise as K...
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Season 1
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24:56
THE LIVE ROAST OF Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday, by Alan Dean Foster
SUMMARY: Today we cover a Transformers book that is “more than meets the eye." Unless your eye looked at the book and was like, “It seems bad,” in which case, yeah, it’s pretty much what met your eye. Thanks to everyone who joined us for thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 199
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25:23
The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin, with GUEST Zoltan Kaszas!
Zoltan Kaszas joins the podcast to discuss unshaven music guru Rick Rubin's humble and surprisingly deep book about making art (the "surprisingly" is just based shallowly on Rick Rubin's looks).-Listen to the audio album...
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Season 1
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Episode 198
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39:24