Unsolicited Book Reviews

Bono, Cody Cassidy, Dana Spiotta, James Spooner, and Manuel Gonzales walk into a bar... and I review their books: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, Who Ate the First Oyster?, Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview, The High Desert, and The Miniature Wife: And Other Stories. What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically...

Year end review. Year in review? Either way? Both ways. These are the reviews of my favorite books that I read in 2023. David Graeber and David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything: https://amzn.to/47MOAG5 James Bridle Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence: https://amzn.to/3MXDypu Anna Malaika Tubbs Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Mal...

Quentin Tarantino, Iain Gately, Vidya Krishnan, Alexandra Lange, and Brian Cook walk into a bar... and I review their books: Cinema Speculation, Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol, Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, Meet Me by the Fountain, and Butts on things. What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently...

Email bag, Q&A, including the "Unsolicited Book Review" song in its entirety No book reviews for this "very special" episode. But, I just wanted to answer the three questions I got in my inbox: what's the song that plays at the beginning, between reviews, and at the end of each episode? is the format going to change? Would ever include another person or interview an aut...

Sinéad O'Connor, Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr, T. Colin Campbell, Steve Stewart-Williams, and Shannon Chakraborty walk into a bar... and I review their books: Rememberings, The Panic of 1907 (2nd Edition), The Future of Nutrition, The Ape That Understood the Universe, and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride...

Alison Bechdel, Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz, Hugh Howey, and John E Douglas and Mark Olshaker walk into a bar... and I review their books: Dykes to Watch Out For, Demon Copperhead, Trust, Silo (Wool, Shift, and Dust), and Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed re...

Jeff Tweedy, John Green, Lol Tolhurst, Rob Jung, and Sy Montgomery walk into a bar... and I review their books: Let's Go (So We Can Get Back), The Anthropocene Reviewed, Cured, Judgment Day, and Of Time and Turtles. What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 revi...

Benjamin Percy, Nathan Hill, Ibram X Kendi, Michael Finkel, and Lydia King walk into a bar... and I review their books: Sky Vault, Wellness, Four Hundred Souls, The Art Thief, and Quackery. Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode. Michael's webpage: https://www...

Unsolicited Book Reviews with Michael David MacBride, a weekly podcast, dropping every Tuesday. What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode. Michael's webpage: ⁠ https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠