Summer Reading List 2023

September 3, 2023

First Aired: June 25, 2023

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What books should thoughtful people read this summer? Josh and Ray talk to the authors and editors of new and recent books as they compile their annual Summer Reading List:

  • Michael Schur, creator of TV’s The Good Place and author of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
  • Lori Gruen, Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University and co-editor of The Good It Promises, The Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism
  • Gabriella Safran, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University and author of Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century

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Michael Schur, Creator, The Good Place

Lori Gruen, Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University

Gaberiella Safran, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Stanford University

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