Episode 306 — Joshua Wolf Shenk

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2014

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Wolf Shenk is the guest. His new book, Powers of Two, is now available from Eamon Dolan Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Andrew Solomon says "In this surprising, compelling, deeply felt book, Joshua Wolf Shenk banishes the idea of solitary genius by demonstrating that our richest art and science come from collaboration: we need one another not only for love, but also for thinking and imagining and growing and being." And Susan Orlean says "This is a book about magic; about the Beatles; about the chemistry between people; about neuroscience; and about the buddy system; it examines love and hate, harmony and dissonance, and everything in between. The result is wise, funny, surprising, and completely engrossing." Monologue: solitude, individualism, hubris, needing people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention.
0:03.1	Attention.
0:04.0	Attention.
0:05.0	Rail travellers, platform paces, window gazers and armrest negotiators.
0:10.0	Have you heard?
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1:15.6	Oh, my God.
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1:44.5	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. I think it's really beautiful. Jesus, what a struggle, you know? It was incredible. It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listing. Just one person at just one time. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it.
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