Book · recommended on 1 episode
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson ISBN 9781596880887
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Sherwood Anderson ISBN 9781596880887
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This book by Sherwood Anderson came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: guest. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
A unified collection of short stories about life in a small town in the American Midwest.
“the sherwood anderson guy he's a novelist that i like about uh he wrote a book called winesburg ohio”— guest
The guest here is Sheldon Solomon: Social psychologist at Skidmore College and co-developer of Terror Management Theory. He co-authored 'The Worm at the Core' and built decades of experiments on how mortality awareness shapes human behavior, extending the ideas of Ernest Becker. Social psychologist Sheldon Solomon argues the fear of death secretly drives nearly everything humans build, believe, and destroy.
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