Book · recommended on 5 episodes
Trickster Makes This World
Lewis Hyde ISBN 0374958033
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This book by Lewis Hyde has come up 5 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss. 5 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Bridget Phetasy, Chuck Palahniuk, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-09-06 and the most recent from 2024-07-24. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Lewis Hyde's ambitious and captivating Trickster Makes This World brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination as it is embodied in the trickster mythology. Most at home on the road or at the twilight edge of town, tricksters are consummate boundary-crossers, slipping through keyholes, breaching walls, subverting defense systems. Always out to satisfy their inordinate appetites, lying, cheating, and stealing, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable culture heroes. In North America, Coyote taught the race how to dress, sing, and shoot arrows.
“I've been reading that rereading my favorite book trickster makes this world and how the trickster”— Bridget Phetasy
The guest here is Bridget Phetasy: Comedian, writer, and host of the Dumpster Fire podcast; sober mom who returned to standup after years away and now performs in Austin. Joe Rogan and Bridget Phetasy riff on conspiracies, AI deepfakes, tribalism, body autonomy, and the booming Austin comedy scene.
“There is a really fun book... Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde... It's fascinating. Really fun book if people want to get into trickster mythology.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Martha Beck: Harvard-trained sociologist, life coach, and bestselling author (The Way of Integrity); ex-Mormon known for radical honesty and somatic, joy-based coaching. Martha Beck on tracking joy in the body, her year of zero lies, and how curiosity defeats anxiety.
“it made me think of a book that I really enjoyed called trickster makes this world great book I love I know the author”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Margaret Atwood: Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, and Alias Grace, plus dozens of novels, poetry collections, and essay books. At 82 she is also an inventor (the LongPen signing technology) and runs an online learning program called Practical Utopias. Margaret Atwood talks creative process, poetry vs. prose, dystopias, and her practical-Utopias project with Tim Ferriss.
“one of my favorites which is trickster makes this world which is a book really about the disruptive side of human imagination as embodied in trickster mythology”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Chuck Palahniuk: Bestselling author of 23 books including Fight Club and Choke, known for transgressive minimalist fiction. He studied under Tom Spanbauer in the Gordon Lish minimalist tradition and developed the 'dangerous writing' method. Chuck Palahniuk delivers a masterclass on minimalism, dangerous writing, and using fiction to exhaust your unresolved emotional wounds.
“yeah i love that book i think that was his first book it's spectacular and it's long just so people know what they're signing up for”— Chuck Palahniuk
The guest here is Chuck Palahniuk: Bestselling author of 23 books including Fight Club and Choke, known for transgressive minimalist fiction. He studied under Tom Spanbauer in the Gordon Lish minimalist tradition and developed the 'dangerous writing' method. Chuck Palahniuk delivers a masterclass on minimalism, dangerous writing, and using fiction to exhaust your unresolved emotional wounds.
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