ABOUT THIS EPISODE
A documentary about competitive bird watching turns out to be one of the best things on YouTube. Plus: the Criterion Channel recommends feel-good films, a small Iranian boy tries to return a notebook, fiction gets a bad reputation, and nobody can remember the plot of Slaughterhouse-Five.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Listers — documentary, free on YouTube
- eBird app
- Merlin app
- The Criterion Channel
- Tampopo (1985, Juzo Itami)
- Where is the Friend's House? (1987, Abbas Kiarostami)
- The Rest is Entertainment
- Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel,
- Dark Matter — Blake Crouch
- Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut, novel and graphic novel
- The Maniac — Benjamin Labatut
- When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamin Labatut
- Exhalations — Ted Chiang
- Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
- Victory Land — the New York band recommended
Image used in episode art by Bettina Arrigoni, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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