Author of "Beyond All Reasonable Doubt Jesus is Alive" Melissa Lozada-Oliva talks literary influences, books she's put down, and enjoying the act of reading before we're too old to see the pages anymore.

Books Talked About Include:

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Lady Chatterly’s Lover

Debt by David Graeber

Grapes of Wrath

Autobiography of Macolm X

Somebody Walks Over Your Grave by Marian Enriquez

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Leguin

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Filmmaker and actor David Hull (Crazy Ex) joins host Joshua Turek to discuss books about eels, wolves, the dust bowl, politics gone wrong and ketamine therapy.

Recorded Dec 6, 2025

Books Talked About Include:

Slumberland, Sell Out, Tuff, White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty

James, Erasure, American Fiction, God’s Country by Percival Everett

Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden by Steinbeck

Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky

Book of Eels Patrick Sphenson

Frost Lines by Neil Shea

The Cigarette

American Dreamer by Henry Wallace

A Kim Jong Il Production

The Wicker Man

The Day of the Locust

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Astrologer and Filmmaker Liz Vazquez joins host Joshua Turek to discuss books documenting our pressing issues and outer space and how they're all related.

originally recorded January 26, 2026

Books talked about include

Trickster makes the world by Lewis Hyde

Shiver by Junji Ito

Who I am and What I want by David Shimley

The Problem with Work

Carceral Capitalism

Nechro Politics Achille Mbembe

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The History of Forgetting by Norman Klein

Becoming Human by Zakiyah Iman Jackson

Black shirts and reds by Michael Parenti

Inventing Reality

American Fascists by Chris Hedges

Loaded by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnes

American Cosmic - Diana Walsh Pasulka

The Administration of Fear by Paul Verilio

The Information Bomb

Shambhala

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