Recommended on this episode
BookRecommendedISBN verified
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
“it's unbelievable, totally devastating, stunning”
“his book Never Let Me Go, it's unbelievable, totally devastating, stunning. I see. I really love literature”— Janna Levin
BookRecommendedISBN verified
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
“an absolute masterpiece”
“there was one book that I think was kind of surprising that I think is an absolute masterpiece which is the road”— Janna Levin
BookRecommendedISBN verified
Animal Farm
George Orwell
“Animal Farm is incredible”
“I return to Orwell's Animal Farm a lot... Oh, animal form is incredible”— Janna Levin
ProductRecommended
Risen Division jumpsuits
Andrea Lara
“these amazing jumpsuits that I often wear”
“Andrea Lara who's a designer who makes these amazing jumpsuits that I often wear... She has a jumpsuit design line called Risen Division and she just makes these incredible. They're fantastic”— Janna Levin
The guest's own work
BookBy the guestISBN verified
How the Universe Got Its Spots
Janna Levin
“she has also written some incredible books including how the universe got its spots on the topic of the shape and the size of the universe”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Janna Levin
“a mad man dreams of touring machines on the topic of genius madness and the limits of knowledge”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Janna Levin
“Black hole blues and other songs from outer space on the topic of LIGO and the detection of gravitational waves”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified
Black Hole Survival Guide
Janna Levin
“and black hole survival guide all about black holes. This was a fun and fascinating conversation”— Lex Fridman
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
BookReferencedISBN verified
Copenhagen
Michael Frayn
“You might know this play Copenhagen by Michael Fra. There's this line that he attributes to Boore”— Janna Levin
BookReferencedISBN verified
The Black Hole War
Leonard Susskind
“we have to come to the rescue as Lenny Suskin in his book black hole war says uh his subtitle is um my battle with Stephen Hawking”— Janna Levin
BookReferencedISBN verified
The God Particle
Leon Lederman
“Leon Letterman co-authored a book and he wanted to call it the goddamn particle because I couldn't find it and his publisher convinced him to call it the God particle”— Janna Levin
BookReferencedISBN verified
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
“Katsu Ishiguru, who won the Nobel Prize, wrote Remains of the Day, probably most famously”— Janna Levin
BookReferencedISBN verified
Time's Arrow
Martin Amis
“Martin Amos wrote a book that runs backwards, Times Arrow. I love some of his other books even more, but Times Zero is pretty clever”— Janna Levin
MediaReferenced
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan
“There's even a small line in Chris Nolan's film. It's very hard to catch. There's a reference to it in the film”— Janna Levin
MediaReferenced
Snow White
Walt Disney (inferred)
“he was obsessed with Snow White, which was recently released. And he used to chant one of the uh little poem songs”— Janna Levin
More from Lex Fridman
All 1990 recommended