If Books Could Kill
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A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
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The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds
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After many years, we’ve finally given in and launched a merch store. Only one design for now, but we’ve got shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs, stickers - all the classic items you know and love.
we're running a chunky Black Friday sale on merch, with markdowns on everything from our classic Village Homosexual merch to the new "bitch like a man" design.
After many years, we’ve finally given in and launched a merch store. Only one design for now, but we’ve got shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs, stickers - all the classic items you know and love.
Shop Official Merch by If Books Could Kill
The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds
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November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
we're running a chunky Black Friday sale on merch, with markdowns on everything from our classic Village Homosexual merch to the new "bitch like a man" design.
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I was so worried about where this would go until Michael went "if you're an archaeologist, you're screaming right now". I was!!
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I was so worried about where this would go until Michael went "if you're an archaeologist, you're screaming right now". I was!!
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Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
well,
We all agree that nobody is going to buy that book right
November 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
well,
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I am extremely sympathetic to @notalawyer.bsky.social’s complaint on the latest @ifbookspod.bsky.social that once you start hearing certain phrases to the tune of ”Eleanor Rigby” it is impossible to stop
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I am extremely sympathetic to @notalawyer.bsky.social’s complaint on the latest @ifbookspod.bsky.social that once you start hearing certain phrases to the tune of ”Eleanor Rigby” it is impossible to stop
This month's bonus episode is about Zohran Derangement Syndrome, the dangerous malady infecting newsrooms across the globe.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This month's bonus episode is about Zohran Derangement Syndrome, the dangerous malady infecting newsrooms across the globe.
This month's premium episode is the latest entry in our coverage of Eric Adams, from Trump dropping his charges to the collapse of his mayoral campaign to his ex who made an AI-generated trailer for her book about their whirlwind romance.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This month's premium episode is the latest entry in our coverage of Eric Adams, from Trump dropping his charges to the collapse of his mayoral campaign to his ex who made an AI-generated trailer for her book about their whirlwind romance.
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It is time to do an episode on The Da Vinci Code
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It is time to do an episode on The Da Vinci Code
Episode 45: How To Win Friends And Influence People
89 years ago, Dale Carnegie taught Americans how to live like Leo Tolstoy, give speeches like John Rockefeller and neg like Calvin Coolidge.
89 years ago, Dale Carnegie taught Americans how to live like Leo Tolstoy, give speeches like John Rockefeller and neg like Calvin Coolidge.
How To Win Friends And Influence People
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 10/02/2025 · 1h 10m
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October 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Episode 45: How To Win Friends And Influence People
89 years ago, Dale Carnegie taught Americans how to live like Leo Tolstoy, give speeches like John Rockefeller and neg like Calvin Coolidge.
89 years ago, Dale Carnegie taught Americans how to live like Leo Tolstoy, give speeches like John Rockefeller and neg like Calvin Coolidge.
This month's bonus episode is about the pundit reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk, from Ezra Klein to the freaks at National Review.
The Pundits Mourn Charlie Kirk | If Books Could Kill
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September 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This month's bonus episode is about the pundit reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk, from Ezra Klein to the freaks at National Review.
Episode 44: Summer of Our Discontent
Thomas Chatterton Williams is the only thinker brave enough to ask the question: is there a way to make that sentence longer?
Thomas Chatterton Williams is the only thinker brave enough to ask the question: is there a way to make that sentence longer?
Thomas Chatterton Williams'
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 09/11/2025 · 1h 32m
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September 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Episode 44: Summer of Our Discontent
Thomas Chatterton Williams is the only thinker brave enough to ask the question: is there a way to make that sentence longer?
Thomas Chatterton Williams is the only thinker brave enough to ask the question: is there a way to make that sentence longer?
This month's premium episode is an introduction to Bret Stephens, the most racist tattletale at The New York Times.
Pundit Portrait: Bret Stephens | If Books Could Kill
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August 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This month's premium episode is an introduction to Bret Stephens, the most racist tattletale at The New York Times.
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Finally recorded the TCW episode
August 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Finally recorded the TCW episode
to God’s ears
I just hope we get one more If Books Could Kill on Adams before he gets swept outta there
August 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
to God’s ears
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cheers for the new Grindr profile pic @ifbookspod.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
cheers for the new Grindr profile pic @ifbookspod.bsky.social
reading this passage is like getting a brief glimpse of an upcoming boss in a video game
![Williams’s book is impaired by slapdash prose. His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions. Here is one from the prologue:
For non-whites, even though the mixed-race population has become the fastest-growing segment of the American demos and, in real terms, a disproportionate but statistically small and decreasing number of unarmed Black civilians were killed by police annually (typically between 15 and 25 per year from a population exceeding 40 million, according to The Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” database) — and indeed other quality-of-life markers have been equalizing for significant numbers of Black people since the civil rights movement — the death of [Trayvon] Martin followed by [Michael] Brown (regardless of the specific contingencies of that case), and a high-profile slate of videotaped police and vigilante killings that converged with the proliferation of camera-equipped smartphones and the pervasiveness of social media, thwarted any self-congratulatory sense of the inevitability of social progress still alive in the first half of Obama’s second administration.
Huh? In addition to such passages, “Summer of Our Discontent” includes many distended excerpts — some spanning three pages — from not-so-obscure sources, including The Times.
Midway through the book, Williams chides another writer on the race beat for propounding “an excruciatingly simplistic tale, fueled by a powerful unwillingness and incapacity to grapple with contemporary American racial and social complexity.” Regrettably, I know the feeling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfposmpmhegtyvhbs75s3pw/bafkreif2e52q5ncyrgmcxrrhpwuuclwcfp2vefdlmqxka6z5p2brfiarsa@jpeg)
August 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
reading this passage is like getting a brief glimpse of an upcoming boss in a video game
Episode 43: He's Just Not That Into You
Ladies, are you hung up on a man? Consider asking a different, worse man about how to proceed.
Ladies, are you hung up on a man? Consider asking a different, worse man about how to proceed.
He's Just Not That Into You
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 07/31/2025 · 1h
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July 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Episode 43: He's Just Not That Into You
Ladies, are you hung up on a man? Consider asking a different, worse man about how to proceed.
Ladies, are you hung up on a man? Consider asking a different, worse man about how to proceed.
we are forsaken
July 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
we are forsaken
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July 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
you can’t make us do this
I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.
July 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
you can’t make us do this
This month's bonus episode is about Bari Weiss, who overcame her inability to say anything interesting to become the billionaire-whispering head of a small media empire.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This month's bonus episode is about Bari Weiss, who overcame her inability to say anything interesting to become the billionaire-whispering head of a small media empire.
We told him to retire and he did. You’re welcome.
Glenn Kessler Retire B*tch | If Books Could Kill
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July 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We told him to retire and he did. You’re welcome.
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I visited my village homosexual and all I got was this lousy t-shirt from @ifbookspod.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I visited my village homosexual and all I got was this lousy t-shirt from @ifbookspod.bsky.social