Derek Thompson

Products they talk about

• Blood Meridian👍 Recommends

  …recommending the audiobook version of a literary classic read by a narrator with distinctive voice

  “The last book that I'm going to recommend is specifically an audiobook. The audiobook of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is, like, the trippiest possible— It's an extraordinary book that's basically like a sort of— if you haven't read it, like a sort of 20th century Dante explaining an absolutely hellacious experience of a bunch of people in the mid-19th century along the Texas-Mexico border. And the audiobook is, like—the guy who reads it has the most incredible, sonorous Southern accent.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• Mere Christianity👍 Recommends

  …providing personal book recommendations to listeners

  “Number one, weird choice maybe for a reformed Jew, but Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, in the first 30 pages in particular, is probably the most interesting analysis of the concept of morality that I've ever read.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

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  The Secret History👍 Recommends

  …sharing personal literary recommendations and meaningful reading experiences

  “There was a period when I was in my 20s when I just moved to New York where I read, like, a bunch of books that I adored. The Emperor's Children by Claire Massoud, The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer, and The Secret History by Donna Tartt. And I just re-read The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and it is so fucking good. It's like, I finished the book two weeks ago and, like, entered, like, a brief, like, one-hour period of mourning.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show