Best wcooper11 Podcasts (2026)

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New York Times Ken Belson 34:17

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We discuss Ken's great new bestseller: Every Day Is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell Turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ken-belson/every-day-is-sunday/9781538772577/?lens=grand-central-publishingBy wcooper11

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Yale Professor Lauren Benton 30:50

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We discuss Professor Benton's latest book, They Called It Peace, and how it applies to current events--including the recent capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248479/they-called-it-peaceBy wcooper11

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Interview With Bestselling Author A.J. Sidransky 36:41

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We discuss A.J.'s many books and advice for aspiring authors in a complicated marketplace. https://ajsidransky.com/By wcooper11

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Quite Literally Books 24:45

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A delightful interview with the co-publishers (two lifelong friends and book lovers) of Quite Literally Books, a heritage press devoted to discovering and reissuing ought-to-be-in-print books by American women authors—and occasionally others—who’ve been shelved for far too long. https://quiteliterallybooks.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopfyHvxDG8jGe6Lvrqerie5N…

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A discussion with Gloria J. Browne-Marshall about her new book, A Protest History of the United States 27:15

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In this timely new book, professor Gloria Browne-Marshall delves into the history of protest movements and rebellion in the United States. https://www.beacon.org/A-Protest-History-of-the-United-States-P2145.aspx https://will-cooper.com/By wcooper11

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How America Is Viewed In The Middle East 25:01

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My interview with professor Mohamed Arafa, who teaches law at Cornell and in Egypt. We discuss how America is viewed in the Middle East. "The outside world does not see the US as it used to be." "Even after Trump leaves office, it will not be easy for the US to return to its leading image." will-cooper.com…

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Interview with Howard Yaruss, author of Understandable Economics 31:31

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A stimulating conversion in which Howard breaks down numerous key economic concepts that are typically misunderstood. Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know: https://www.amazon.com/Understandable-Economics-Because-Understanding-Important/dp/1633888363 will-cooper.com…

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Interview With Bestselling Author and Filmnaker Michael McKinley 26:49

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In this interview we discuss Michael's incredible career as a storyteller, contemporary American politics, and advice for aspiring authors.By wcooper11

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Author Anne Hand 29:30

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This memoir stands out as a unique and contemporary story, offering a fresh perspective on historical reparations and the ongoing quest for identity in a rapidly changing world. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Judith Resnik, Yale Law Professor 24:42

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Resnik's new book, “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy,” was published by the University of Chicago Press this year. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo243487113.htmlBy wcooper11

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Donald L. Horowitz, Duke Law Professor 24:18

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Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University. He holds law degrees from Syracuse and Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. Professor Horowitz is the author of eight books: The Courts and Social Policy (1977), which won the Louis Brownlow Award of the National Academy of …

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Portraitist Robert Shetterly 25:50

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We discuss Robert's incredible body of work. https://americanswhotellthetruth.org/about/about-the-artist/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Professor Joseph Hoover, Queen Mary University of London 23:54

17d ago23:54

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We discuss his forthcoming book, Living Just Enough for the City. Website: https://joseph-hoover.org/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/drjoehoover.bsky.social or @drjoehoover.bsky.social Substack: https://anothermotelvoice.substack.com/ or @anothermotelvoice Article on gentrification: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00905917231178295 Arti…

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Bryan A. Garner 32:27

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We discuss Bryan's collaboration with Justice Scalia and his wonderful new book: The Etcher: The Life and Art of Oskar Stoessel. https://www.amazon.com/Etcher-Life-Art-Oskar-Stoessel/dp/1567928404By wcooper11

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Author A.J. Bermudez 24:26

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A. J. BERMUDEZ is an award-winning writer and director who divides her time between Los Angeles and New York. Her first book, Stories No One Hopes Are About Them, won the 2022 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a 2023 Lambda Award Finalist. Writing credits include MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE (co-written with director Kyle Hausmann Stokes; starring Sonequa Mar…

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Graham Flanagan, Chief Video Correspondent, Business Insider 26:04

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Graham created and oversees Business Insider's award-winning "Boot Camp" series (2018-present), which goes inside the training programs of military branches and law enforcement agencies. Episodes include the United States Secret Service, the United States Border Patrol, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Marine Corps, the United State…

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Author Philip Holden 25:02

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We discuss his new book, Heaven Has Eyes. https://singaporeunbound.org/gaudy-boy/heaven-has-eyesBy wcooper11

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Authors Michael McKinley and Nancy Meritt Bell 27:20

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We discuss their new book The Glamour of Evil and their new press BookGo. https://www.bookgo.pub/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Author Richard A. Stone 22:31

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We discuss his new book Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Project-Mayflower/Richard-A-Stone/9781493084364 DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Author Joan Silber 19:29

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Joan Silber has written ten books of fiction--most recently, Mercy, out in fall 2025. Secrets of Happiness was a Washington Post Best Book of the year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of the Year. Improvement won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in…

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Authors and Law Professors Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit 31:25

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We discuss their book Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fair-Shake/Naomi-Cahn/9781982115135 DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Author Jacob Sullum 29:33

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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is an award-winning journalist who has covered drug policy, public health, gun control, civil liberties, and criminal justice for more than three decades. Sullum is the author of two critically acclaimed books: Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (Tarcher/Penguin, 20…

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Authors Ellen Bassuk and Daniel Schoonover 16:49

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For four decades, Ellen Bassuk has navigated the worlds of psychiatry, advocacy, and motherhood-shaped by her son Daniel Schoonover's lifelong struggle with mental illness, especially schizophrenia. Between Two Worlds is their deeply personal and captivating memoir, chronicling Daniel's journey through a broken health care system that often fails t…

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Harry McCracken, Fast Company 29:49

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Harry McCracken is the global technology editor for Fast Company, based in San Francisco. He writes about topics ranging from gadgets and services from tech giants to the startup economy to how artificial intelligence and other breakthroughs are changing life at work, home, and beyond. McCracken’s work for the publication has included profiles of M…

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Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review 27:37

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Alexandra is a critic for The New York Times Book Review and occasional features writer. She joined The Times in 2010. She is the author of the hit book: “Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy Singular Life of Elaine Stritch.” Website: https://www.nytimes.com/by/alexandra-jacobs Book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250758057/stillhere/…

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Professor Jonathan R. Macey, Yale Law School 30:53

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Jonathan R. Macey is an American legal scholar who serves as the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale Law School. Macey is one of the most cited legal scholars in the world. https://law.yale.edu/jonathan-r-maceyBy wcooper11

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Ed Macaulay, lecturer in physics and data science at Queen Mary University of London 23:04

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Ed is the author of First Steps in Space-Time: A Brief Introduction to Special Relativity. https://www.ed-macaulay.com/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Novelist Jessica Brilliant Keener 23:18

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Her new novel, Evening Begins the Day, will be published by Koehler Books in Spring 2026! The story weaves together two families in crisis—one reeling from a marital betrayal and the other grappling with their at-risk teenage daughter—with an ancient spiritual practice called The Counting of the Omer; a modern-day quest for community, hope, and saf…

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Gil Gillenwater 23:01

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Gil Gillenwater is the founder of the award-winning Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation, which has reimagined border philanthropy since 1987. He is the author of Hope on the Border. https://ranchofeliz.com/team/gil-gillenwater/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY.By wcooper11

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The New Yorker's Susan Morrison 27:35

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We discuss her storied career at The New Yorker and her bestseller, Lorne The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/532520/lorne-by-susan-morrison/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY.By wcooper11

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Legendary Sports Commentator Ray Ratto 26:56

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Website: https://defector.com/author/ray-rattoBy wcooper11

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Author Erica Rex 16:59

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Erica Rex has written for Scientific American, The New York Times, The Times (UK), The Independent, Salon, The Economist and many other publications. She is a recipient of National Magazine Award for Fiction. We discuss her forthcoming book Seeing What Is There: My Search for Sanity in the Psychedelic Era. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/See…

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Pamela Paul of The Wall Street Journal 34:36

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A delightful conversation with Pamela Paul, a writer at large for The Wall Street Journal. She was previously an Opinion columnist for The New York Times, where she also spent nine years as the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversaw all books coverage at The New York Times. She is the former host of the weekly Book Review podcast for …

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George Gonzalez, Professor at University of Miami in Florida 33:55

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We discuss his books books The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future (2015, Palgrave MacMillan); The Absolute and Star Trek (2017, Palgrave MacMillan); and Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism (2018, Palgrave MacMillan). https://people.miami.edu/profile/2b21bdd1b6844498821ffa637b0cbb50 DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com…

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Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian 27:10

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Jonathan is a bestselling author and one of the UK's most respected and widely read journalists. We discuss his new book, The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany—and the Spy Who Betrayed Them. An Amazon Best Book of the Year for 2025, Mick Herron calls it "An astonishing true story of courage, love, and be…

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Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine 20:59

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Susan Dominus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. We discuss her wonderful new book, The Family Dynamic: A Journey Into the Mystery of Sibling Success. Find it here: https://www.susanpdominus.com/ She has worked for The New York Times since 2007, initially as a Metro columnist. In 2018, she was part of a team t…

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Luke Shaefer, Professor, University of Michigan 37:03

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As shines through in the interview, Professor Shaefer has a clear-eyed and deeply informed view of one of the most important--and neglected--topics in American society: poverty alleviation. His work has been cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, and The Atlantic, and he has been featured on such programs as PBS NewsHour, Mark…

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Eve Quesnel, author and columnist 20:42

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A delightful conversation with Eve about her writing, including her new book: Snow Fleas and Chickadees: Everyday Observations in the Sierra. https://www.evequesnel.com/books.html DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Max Ufberg, senior editor at Fast Company 26:51

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Max and I discuss the most consequential topics in technology today, including AI and cybersecurity. In addition to his work running the technology section at Fast Company, his writing has also appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, and The Guardian. He is the recipient of two Society of Professional Journalists…

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Audiobook Chapter 1: The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld: A Novel 20:27

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Here's the first chapter. #books #fiction #politicalfiction DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Author Susanne Paola Antonetta 21:47

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Susanne Paola Antonetta writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She contributes to media like the Huffington Post, Ms., the New York Times, The Hill, and currently writes a blog/column for Psychology Today called Mad Woman Out of the Attic. And she serves as nonfiction editor of Orison Books. We discuss her new book The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenic…

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Author and Columnist Jon Talton 24:06

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Jon Talton has had an incredible career as a columnist and novelist. He shares his story on this episode. https://www.seattletimes.com/author/jon-talton/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. https://will-cooper.com/By wcooper11

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Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on The Power of Psychology 41:27

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DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Desmond Swayne, Member of Parliament, UK 25:38

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The Rt Hon Sir Desmond Swayne is the Conservative MP for New Forest West. We have a far-reaching and stimulating conversation about US and UK politics. DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. https://will-cooper.com/By wcooper11

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Bestselling Author Richard Lederer 22:10

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A delightful conversation with Richard about language, literature, and life. https://verbivore.com/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. https://will-cooper.com/By wcooper11

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Author Norman Schulman 19:05

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We discuss Norm's new book Love, Norm: Inspiration of a Jewish American Fighter Pilot. https://www.lovenormmemoir.com/ Norm's Story Norm Shulman's relationship with his stepson Greg Levenson, always stable and warm, evolved when Greg decided to enlist in the Air Force at age 27. Cognizant of past anti-Semitic stereotypes persisting about Jewish par…

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Author Matthew Boedy (part 2) 19:42

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We discuss Matthew's new book The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy. “A sobering assessment of the evolution of Christian nationalism.” Publishers Weekly https://www.wjkbooks.com/bookproduct/0664269214-the-seven-mountains-mandate/By wcooper11

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Journalist Tobias Grey 27:38

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Tobias Grey writes for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among others. In the process he has interviewed such legends as Kazuo Ishiguro and John le Carré. Hear his story on Books and More. will-cooper.comBy wcooper11

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Matthew Boedy 10:27

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We discuss Matthew's new book The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy. “A sobering assessment of the evolution of Christian nationalism.” Publishers Weekly https://www.wjkbooks.com/bookproduct/0664269214-the-seven-mountains-mandate/By wcooper11

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Author John Oakes 28:50

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We discuss his new book The Fast. “A knowledgeable study of fasting, which has a long history and a layered present . . . In this well-informed, illuminating book, Oakes shows us the value of consuming less in order to know more.” —Kirkus https://john-oakes.com/the-fast/By wcooper11

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