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Peculiar Book Club Podcast
Weird Science, Bizarre History, & Strange Medicine: we host authors of PECULIAR nonfiction! Want to know why animals evolved to suck blood? Or the secrets of sword-swallowers? Curious about Vagina Obscura? Or the astrophysics of a dying universe? We've 3 shows to tempt you: the PBC podcast (from Mary Roach to Ed Yong), Peculiar at the Movies with Davey Berris (where factoids meet celluloid); and Peculiar in Mystery (thrillers + true crime!) Join host Brandy Schillace, as seen on THE…
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Peculiar Book Club PodcastLuckily we didn't lose or interview with Sam Kean and The Museum of Lost Things
Discover the astonishing story of the world’s greatest lost treasures in this enthralling narrative by a writer with “the anecdotal flourishes of Oliver Sacks…
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You won't be able to stomach Daniel Kraus and Partially Devoured
Daniel Kraus returns to Peculiar Book Club to dive into a horror movie classic! His latest examines his favorite film’s importance to our history, culture, and…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're feeling the juice with Requiem for a Dream (Peculiar Movie Club), plus a quick review of Brilliant Minds (TV show)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe'll sign autographs after the show with Jack El-Hai and The Case of the Autographed Corpse
The true-crime saga of the intertwined lives of a Native spiritual leader and a prominent literary figure—and their shared work in their pursuit to right a…
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We're going to be wrong with Rebecca Gibson and The Bad Corset
In 1908, a French book, Le Corset by Ludovic O'Followell, told of the terrible suffering of women tormented by and subject to their corsets. X-ray Pictures…
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We're doing mental exercises with Angus Fletcher and Primal Intelligence
How are some people so much smarter than the rest of us? Where do visionary creatives and savvy decision-makers like Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, Abraham…
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Take two Tylenol before listening to Tom Zeller and The Headache
Did you know that chronic head pain, from blinding migraines to severe headache disorders known as “clusters,” affects 40% of the population? And that science…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're taking the cannolis with The Godfather (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We're going to get so high with Sam Kelly and Human History on Drugs
Every so often, I find myself reading history and thinking ‘were they on DRUGS?’ Well, the probably answer is: Yes! Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk and…
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You might not recognize us with Sadie Dingfelder and Do I Know You?
Science writer Sadie Dingfelder has always known that she’s a little quirky. But while she’s made some strange mistakes over the years, it’s not until she…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're getting quite animated with Princess Mononoke (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We'll let you in on the secret with Eliot Stein and Custodians of Wonder
Did you know there’s a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe? Or that the world’s rarest pasta is made in Italy…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe'll break our silence on The Artist (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We'll journey into the dark with Megan Eaves and Nightfaring
People, plants and animals all depend on the natural night – both its darkness and its starlight – for everything from regulating our sleep cycles to providing…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're pushing the limits with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and The Edge of Space-Time
In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle physicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shared with her audience an abiding sense of…
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There will be plenty of finger pointing with Damon Young and Immortal Gestures
There is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are not supposed to look at the finger. You…
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Your curiosity will be peaked with Carly Anne York and The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog
Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the squishability of a cockroach? It all…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe've got the key to A Perfect Murder (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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You'll love the Kool-Aid with Jane Borden and Cults Like Us
Since the Mayflower sidled up to Plymouth Rock, cult ideology has been ingrained in the DNA of the United States. It turns out that Puritan doomsday belief…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastLet's Party with Daniel Stables and Fiesta
A journey through human festivity, told through colorful travel narratives set at some of the world's most eye-catching festivals and interweaved with insights…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're staying alive with Ashely Alker and 99 Ways to Die
Dr. Ashely Alker is a self-described death-escapologist--or, in more familiar terms, an emergency medicine doctor. She has seen it all, from flesh-eating…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe've been infected by The Faculty (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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It's a sinister tale with Hallie Rubenhold and Story of a Murder
On February 1, 1910, the vivacious, diamond-adorned music hall performer Belle Elmore suddenly vanished from her home, causing alarm among her friends, the…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're puckering up for Eileen G'Sell and Lipstick
Lipstick today is as messy—and fascinating—as changing attitudes towards femininity. Mining the experience of women across culture, class, and generation, this…
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You better hold your breath with Matthew Gavin Frank and Submersed
Have you ever wanted to build your own submarine? I admit, I was a little shocked to find out how many men and women—but mostly men—who feel almost obsessively…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're getting extra Peculiar with Jessica McCann and Peculiar Savage Beauty
Jessica McCann is an award-winning historical novelist and has worked as a professional writer and journalist for more than 35 years. One of her earliest…
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We're bugging out to talk to Mindy Weisberger and Rise of the Zombie Bugs
You’ve seen the movies. But did you know that zombies are in fact all around us? Insect zombies, that is. In Rise of the Zombie Bugs, Mindy Weisberger explores…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastIt's an Unchained conversation with Ghost (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're Inviting you to listen to Sarah Weinman and Without Consent
From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent…
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We'll Bring the Christmas Ghosts with the Lady Aye and WHEN WE SPOKE TO THE DEAD
Ghosts spoke. Women listened. Everything changed.It began with whispers in a dimly lit room. In the 1840s, the Fox Sisters―and the legions of mediums they…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're having a smart conversation with Anika Burgess and Flashes of Brilliance
The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them.Today it’s routine to take photos from an airplane window, use…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastThe conversation is simmering with Julie and Julia (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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We're Cooking up Something GOOD with Christina Ward (just in time for the holidays)
Featured : CHRISTINA WARD, Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat — An American HistoryDoes God have a recipe? I know…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're feeling free to express ourselves with Andy Kirshner and SEX RADICAL
New laws limit access to abortion and threaten doctors with prison. Religious zealots and opportunistic politicians team up to ban books about sex and to…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're howling about a An American Werewolf in London...Happy Halloween!!! (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe are fighting back with A Vigilante (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
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Solve a New Mystery with Brandy Schillace and THE DEAD COME TO STAY
Featured : BRANDY SCHILLACE, The Dead Come to StayBrandy’s back with a sequel! Jo Jones can't catch a break. She'd hoped that trading her city life for the…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're bringing the big guns with Nicholas Wright and Warhead
From Dr Nicholas Wright, leading neuroscientist and adviser to the Pentagon, discover the new science behind warfare.Why did France lose to the Nazis, despite…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastIf you bring the cookies we'll bring the Milk (Peculiar Movie Club, Plus a short review of Wag the Dog)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of…
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Don't Get Irritated! Theresa MacPhail Reveals that Allergies are Nothing to Sneeze at
Featured : THERESA MACPHAIL, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing WorldAllergies are a PROBLEM. Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Most of us have an…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastIt's the time of the season for Al Ridenour and A Season of Madness
Al Ridenour, creator and host of the popular podcast Bone and Sickle and author of The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas extends his study of Winter folk…
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MARY ROACH is Un-Replaceable!
Boy, do I have news for you! On September 11, Mary Roach has agreed to join us to talk about her brand new release: Replaceable You! It’s a fabulous book…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're acquiring knew knowledge with Angus Fletcher and Primal Intelligence
Tap into your hidden intelligence and transform your lifeHow are some people so much smarter than the rest of us? Where do visionary creatives and savvy…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastPut on your Sunday best for John Fugelsang and Separation of Church and Hate
For more than two centuries the United States constitution has given Americans the right to live in a society where church and state exist independently and…
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You're in the big LEAGUE with Lisa Perrin's LADY POISONERS
Featured : LISA PERRIN, The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous WomenDescribed as a feast for the senses, this sumptuously…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastYou'll wonder what we're on when we talk to Sam Kelly and Human History on Drugs
A lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history’s most famous figures, including Shakespeare, George Washington, the Beatles…
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What Have We Got in our POCKETSES? Find out with Hannah Carlson!
Featured : HANNAH CARLSON, Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close Okay, million dollar question: Who gets pockets, and why? It is definitely…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're using our outer voice to tell you about Elizabeth Greenwood and Everyday Intuition
A captivating and insightful deep dive into the world of human intuition, exploring the power of this elusive phenomenon and how it can be harnessed to better…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastIt's the perfect Match with Aisha Saed and The Matchmaker (Peculiar Mystery Club)
A society matchmaker realizes she’s in danger when her clients' weddings are sabotaged in increasingly disturbing ways—an utterly original mystery from New…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe'll bring you some relief with Tom Zeller and The Headache
"Required reading for anyone with a head."—Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz"Absorbing, incisive. . . Zeller captures the…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe promise we've scripted nothing with Matthew Goldman and The Murder Show
The Murder Show is a pulse-racing novel about secrets, old friends, and how the past never leaves us by New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award winning…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe have a sense you'll like this conversation with Sam Kean and Dinner with King Tut
From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five…
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We're Fighting Disinformation with Annalee Newitz and STORIES ARE WEAPONS
Featured : ANNALEE NEWITZ, Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American MindJoining us for a second time, Annalee Newitz, best-selling author of…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastYou'll really dig our conversation with Elle Cosimano and Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave
From New York Times bestseller and Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave—the hugely anticipated next installment in the…
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Fight for Science and Transgender Rights with Brandy Schillace!
Featured : BRANDY SCHILLACE, The Intermediaries: A Weimar StoryIt’s me! Bringing you the fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastYou're in the club with Christopher Yates and The Rabbit Club (Peculiar Mystery Club)
The author of Black Chalk, "the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for" (NPR), returns with a mesmerizing new novel about a dangerous secret society at…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastThe summit is in sight with Sherpa (Peculiar Movie Club)
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the…
Peculiar Book Club PodcastWe're shuffling the deck with Krisit Belcamino and Queen of Spades (Peculiar Mystery Club)
From the dark underbelly of Sicily's Mafia to the heart-pounding streets of America, Eva Santella's tale is one of betrayal, vengeance, and an unquenchable…
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It's Time to Get Your Dancing Shoes (and Climbing Gear?) with Mimi Zieman
Featured : MIMI ZIEMAN, Tap Dancing on EverestWe humans are a risky bunch. It seems part of our make-up, or at least the make up of one small expedition of…
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It's a long way down with Matthew Gavin Frank and Submersed
An exquisite, lyrical foray into the world of deep-sea divers, the obsession and madness that oceans inspire in us, and the story of submarine inventor Peter…