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"Burden of Joy" author Lexi Kent-Monning joins host Joshua Turek to discuss her novel that Joshua loved. She talks about coming from a long line of book readers and writers and her Esalen hot springs adventures growing up in Central California. Lexi shares a wide ranging selection of books from the Divorce novel "Liars" to a YA novel that she hopes will make Josh fall in love with Los Angeles again. She also baked delicious coconut chocolate chip cookies.

For all things Lexi Kent-Monning visit https://www.lexikentmonning.com/ and her ig https://www.instagram.com/lexicola/?hl=en

For Joshua Turek's tour dates and poetry book check out joshuaturek.com but also for more of his writing its free on his new Substack https://joshuaturek.substack.com/

Books Talked About Include:

Liars by Sarah Manguso

All Fours by Miranda July

Bruha wendy c ortiz

The Burden of Joy

The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lespecter

A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

Richard Brautigan

His daughters book about him

Dan Fante’s memoir

Dangerous Angels by Francesca

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Poet Laureate of Pomona, CA, Ceasar K. Avelar joins Joshua to talk about reading poems on your lunch break and finding moments to be creative even when the world is encouraging the opposite. He and Joshua speak to the revolutionary act of reading and how the nerd stigma is only there to oppress the working class.

Bozeman, Montana! Joshua is headlining two shows this friday 11/22/2024 at the Last Best Comedy Club tix here https://www.lastbestcomedy.com/events/friday-night-stand-up-with-joshua-turek

For all things Ceasar K. Avelar visit here: https://www.instagram.com/ceasarkavelar/ and for his book: https://www.elmartillopress.com/product-page/god-of-the-air-hose

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Hollywood Talent Manager at Mosaic Entertainment and local journalist (@officialplayadelrey), Drew Shenfield talks with Joshua about becoming better men through reading books whose passages they can't remember, navigating a day and age ripe with conspiracy, and westerns. They discuss bell hooks "The Will to Change", the early 2000's book "Them" by Jon Ronson, and Adam Curtis documentaries. Also mentioned is their mutual love of public transit in Los Angeles and how they met playing beach volleyball.

for all things Joshua visit his site joshuaturek.com and check out his new substack for longer form thoughts and fragments https://substack.com/@joshuaturek its free!

Books talked about include:

The Will to Change by bell hooks

Them by Jon Ronson

Adam Curtis Documentaries “Bitter Lake”

Hate inc by Matt Taibi

Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges

Society of the Spectacle by Guy

Welcome to Hard Times

Islands of Abandonment

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Author of new book "Country Fail" Irish comedian, Killian Sundermann joins Joshua to talk about Irish authors, how he learned parents are people too, In-N-Out Burger, his time living in New York City and the process of writing his first book for a legendary publisher.

To find Killian's work visit his instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/killersundy/?hl=en

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Books Talked About Include:

Country Fail by Killian Sundermann

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

A Moveable Feast - Hemmingway

A Swim Two Birds - Flan O'Brien

A Tired Policeman

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Danielle Henderson, author of the memoir "The Ugly Cry" and tv writer on shows like "Maniac" starring Emma Stone, joins host Joshua Turek to talk about living on a farm in upstate New York to keep her grandmother company. She revisits the toxic time capsule that was the 80's by reading the Motley Crue tell-all and how she found an awakening in intersectional feminism after going back to school at 30 and reading bell hooks. Josh talks about how the new Miranda July divorce novel upset him more than the dystopian books he's been reading it.

CHICAGO come see Joshua perform stand up comedy at The Comedy Bar 11/8/24 and 11/9/24 https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/november-8-9-joshua-turek-3613879 and catch his poetry book at joshuaturek.com and new free Substack here https://substack.com/@joshuaturek

For more on Danielle Henderson check her out here http://daniellehenderson.net/

Books talked about include:

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

Bad Pharma - Ben Goldacre

All Fours - Miranda July

The Dirt - Motley Crue

The Road - Cormac Mccarthy

Feminist Theory from margin to center - bell hooks

Killing the Black Body - Dorothy Roberts

Angela Davis Books - All of them, Abolition Democracy, Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Amelia Gray - Museum of the Weird

The Sellout - Paul Beatty

Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs

Villette - Charlotte Bronte

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Poet Darby Hudson joins host, Joshua Turek one day in the future from Melbourne, Australia to discuss giving into books that are like "ice cream for the mind." He speaks of how he was raised by divorced parents, one who indulged the low brow while the other sought more challenging reads. The two poets and instagram video dudes discuss their remote friendship and get into everything from David Lynch to the Neverending Story.

Seattle and Chicago! Joshua is going to be headlining comedy shows in your cities soon!

SEATTLE Oct. 25 at the Here-After tickets here: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/joshua-turek-here-after-tickets/13607144

CHICAGO Nov. 8 & 9 he will be headlining at The Comedy Bar tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/november-8-9-joshua-turek-3613879

for signed copies of Joshua's poetry book his site joshuaturek.com and if you want him to perform in your city sign up to his email list on there and suggest a city

For Darby Hudson's work check out https://www.darbyhudsonart.com/ and his instagram https://www.instagram.com/darby_hudson/?hl=en

Books Talked About Include:

Earth Abides - Josh

The Road - Cormac

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

The Housemaid Freida Mcfadden

The Broom of the System DFW - Josh

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

The Bedtime Leunig by Michael Leunig

Bukowski

Celine

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Seinfeld writer and Curb director Larry Charles who also directed Borat, Bruno, and Dangerous World of Comedy, sits down with host Joshua Turek to discuss growing up in Brooklyn and how the books he read in his younger years expanded his sense of the world. Larry talks working with Bob Dylan and Larry David and the similarities between the two men. Larry discusses how through career successes he managed to find his way back to knowing the price of a loaf of bread. He also talks the Library Cop episode of Seinfeld which he wrote!

Chicago and Seattle! Joshua is going to be headlining comedy shows in your cities soon!

SEATTLE Oct. 25 at the Here-After tickets here: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/joshua-turek-here-after-tickets/13607144

CHICAGO Nov. 8 & 9 he will be headlining at The Comedy Bar tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/november-8-9-joshua-turek-3613879

for signed copies of Joshua's poetry book his site joshuaturek.com

For Larry Charles check out his YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPH7P8UM2_uXsRhpp3Z4UQA and IG: https://www.instagram.com/larrycharles/

Books Talked About Include:

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

Confessions of a Cultist by Andrew Sarris

Catch 22

Last Exit to Brooklynn

All Fours by Miranda July (Josh)

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