ALL THE TRANSCRIPTS.

*One Rule: If you’d like to use an excerpt from one of the transcripts, you’re welcome to do so (up to 250 words), provided that you include attribution to Books for Men with Douglas Vigliotti and a link back to the corresponding BooksforMen.org/episodes URL.

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• 12 Great Quotes from 2024 + What to Expect in 2025

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• A Million Little Pieces | James Frey

• A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan

• American Tabloid | James Ellroy

• An Actor Prepares | Constantin Stanislavski

• Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy

• April ‘23 Recap

• April ‘24 Recap

• Apropos of Nothing | Woody Allen

• Aristotle for Novelists (Part 1 of 4)

• Aristotle for Novelists (Part 2 of 4)

• Aristotle for Novelists (Part 3 of 4)

• Aristotle for Novelists (Part 4 of 4)

• Ask the Dust | John Fante

• August ‘22 Recap

• August ‘23 Recap

• August ‘24 Recap

B

• Bad Advice | “All You Have to Do…”

• Bad Advice | College

• Bad Advice | Shortcuts

• Bad Advice | Work on Your Weakness

• Be Brief and Tell Them Everything | Brad Listi

• Big Swiss | Jen Beagin

• Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott

• Bitter Sweet | Hattie Williams

• Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen

• Blacktop Wasteland | S.A. Cosby

• Blitzed | Norman Ohler

• Bright Lights, Big City | Jay McInerney

C

• Carrie | Stephen King

• Catching the Big Fish | David Lynch

• Chronicles | Bob Dylan

• City of Thieves | David Benioff

• Conversations with Tom Petty | Paul Zollo

D

• Daily Rituals | Mason Currey

• Darkness Visible | William Styron

• Dead Girl Blues | Lawrence Block

• December ‘22 Recap

• December ‘23 Recap

• Dopamine Nation | Anna Lembke, MD

E

• Essentialism | Greg McKeown

• Every Man a Menace | Patrick Hoffman

F

• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 | Hunter S Thompson

• February ‘23 Recap

• February ‘24 Recap

• Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk

• Freedom’s Child | Jax Miller

• Free Speech and Why It Matters | Andrew Doyle

• From the Vault | Annie Duke (Part 1)

• From the Vault | Annie Duke (Part 2)

• From the Vault | Bob Roth

• From the Vault | Greg McKeown

• From the Vault | Herb Cohen

• From the Vault | Morning After #7: A Letter to Love

• From the Vault | Tyler Cowen

• From the Vault | An Urge Worth Fighting

• From the Vault | Last Time, Don’t F*ck it Up

G

• Ghosts of Hiroshima | Charles Pellegrino

• Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet

• Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift

H

• Ham on Rye | Charles Bukowski

• Heat 2 | Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner

• Hell’s Angels | Hunter S. Thompson

• How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read | Pierre Bayard

• How to Tell a Story | Aristotle

I

• I Am Brian Wilson | Brian Wilson

• I Remember Nothing | Nora Ephron

• Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace

• Is This Anything? | Jerry Seinfeld

J

• January ‘23 Recap

• January ‘24 Recap

• July ‘23 Recap (and Happy 1-Year Anniversary!)

• July ‘24 Recap

• June ‘23 Recap

• June ‘24 Recap

K

L

• LaBrava | Elmore Leonard

• Last Exit to Brooklyn | Hubert Selby Jr.

• Leonardo da Vinci | Walter Isaacson

• Letters of Note | Shaun Usher

• Life | Keith Richards

• Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov

• Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry

• Love Me Do! | Michael Braun

• Lush Life | Richard Price

M

• Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl

• March ‘23 Recap

• March ‘24 Recap

• May ‘23 Recap

• May ‘24 Recap

• Meditations | Marcus Aurelius

• Miles | Miles Davis

• Miles from Nowhere | Nami Mun

• Mystic River | Dennis Lehane

• My Favorite Scar | Nicolas Ferraro

N

• Night Prayers | Santiago Gamboa

• Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami

• November ‘22 Recap

• November ‘23 Recap

• Novel vs Movie? American Psycho

• Novel vs Movie? Get Shorty

• Novel vs Movie? No Country for Old Men

• Novel vs Movie? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

• Novel vs Movie? The 25th Hour

O

• Obvious in Hindsight | Bradley Tusk

• October ‘22 Recap

• October ‘23 Recap

• October 2024 Recap

• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino

• Orbital | Samantha Harvey

• Outlive | Peter Attia, MD

• Owning Up | George Pelecanos

P

• Page Fright | Harry Bruce

• Phil | Alan Shipnuck

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack | Charlie Munger

Q

• Queenpin | Megan Abbott

R

• Reasons to Live | Amy Hempel

S

• Scenes from My Life | Michael K. Williams

• September ‘22 Recap

• September ‘23 Recap

• September 2024 Recap

• Shoe Dog | Phil Knight

• Skin in the Game | Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Sonny Boy | Al Pacino

• Special Edition | 10 Random Quotes That Will Inspire You to Create Boldly

• Special Edition | Audiobooks vs Books (Or, 7 Reasons Why Listening is Not Reading)

• Special Edition | Happy 3rd Anniversary, Books for Men!

• Special Edition | How I Curate ‘Books for Men’ and What I Read More Broadly

• Special Edition | How to Read More

• Special Edition | One Plus One Doesn’t Equal Two

• Special Edition | The Art of Reading Like a Writer

• Special Edition | Part 1: Do Women Really Read More Than Men?

• Special Edition | Part 2: 10 Reasons to Read (Fiction)

• Special Edition | What Is A Birthday, Anyway?

• Special Edition | Why I’m Moving to Fiction Only for 2026 (+ One Big Change)

• Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami

• Sugar Street | Jonathan Dee

T

• Tell No One | Harlan Coben

• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein

• The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

• The Book of Five Rings | Miyamoto Musashi

• The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger

• The Chris Farley Show | Tom Farley Jr & Tanner Colby

• The Compound Effect | Darren Hardy

• The Dhammapada | Eknath Easwaran

• The Dip | Seth Godin

• The God of the Woods | Liz Moore

• The Godfather | Mario Puzo

• The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Killing Hills | Chris Offutt

• The Laws of Human Nature | Robert Greene

• The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway

• The Order of Time | Carlo Rovelli

• The Paradox of Choice | Barry Schwartz

• The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde

• The Plot | Jean Hanff Korelitz

• The Poet | Michael Connelly

• The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain

• The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle

• The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli

• The Road | Cormac McCarthy

• The Rope Artist | Fuminori Nakamura

• The Secret History | Donna Tartt

• The Son | Philipp Meyer

• The Sopranos Sessions | Alan Sepinwall & Matt Zoller Seitz

• The Stranger | Albert Camus

• The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway

• The Thief | Fuminori Nakamura

• The Tiger | John Vaillant

• The Top Five Regrets of the Dying | Bronnie Ware

• The True Believer | Eric Hoffer

• The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion

• Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman

• This Is Water | David Foster Wallace

• Tom Collins | Douglas Vigliotti

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin

• True and False | David Mamet

• True and False Magic | Phil Stutz

• Trust by Hernan Diaz

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W

• Welcome to Books for Men

• We the Animals | Justin Torres

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Raymond Carver

• When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi

• Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker

• Write About Now | Jonathan Small

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