Turek Books Podcast

Comedian and writer Zach Pugh joins host Joshua Turek to discuss Moby Dick, Don Delillo, Denis Johnson, being attracted to grimey literatrue, The Fort Bragg Cartel and Chris Hedges, the need for pretentiousness to return to our society among other things. Get Joshua's new poetry book "Ugly Whimsy" out April 10th! Preorder first edition now! Originally recorded Jan 2026 The Fort Bragg Cartel Moby D...

Author and Comedian Amy Silverberg joins host Joshua Turek to discuss the reasons why we live creative lives, her love of books including her debut novel First Time Long Time , and Josh's impending fatherhood. Originally recorded 1/12/2026 Books Talked About Include: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 100 years of solitude by marquez a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan A Confederacy of D...

Author of "Beyond All Reasonable Doubt Jesus is Alive" Melissa Lozada-Oliva talks literary influences, books she's put down, and enjoying the act of reading before we're too old to see the pages anymore. Books Talked About Include: tana french Lady Chatterly’s Lover Debt by David Graeber Grapes of Wrath Autobiography of Macolm X Somebody Walks Over Your Grave by Marian Enriquez The Shadow of the W...

Filmmaker and actor David Hull (Crazy Ex) joins host Joshua Turek to discuss books about eels, wolves, the dust bowl, politics gone wrong and ketamine therapy. Recorded Dec 6, 2025 Books Talked About Include: Slumberland, Sell Out, Tuff, White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty James, Erasure, American Fiction, God’s Country by Percival Everett Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden by Steinbeck Notes From Undergr...

Astrologer and Filmmaker Liz Vazquez joins host Joshua Turek to discuss books documenting our pressing issues and outer space and how they're all related. originally recorded January 26, 2026 Books talked about include Trickster makes the world by Lewis Hyde Shiver by Junji Ito Who I am and What I want by David Shimley The Problem with Work Carceral Capitalism Nechro Politics Achille Mbembe A Peop...

Author Lauren Lavin , of the upcoming essay collection "The Third Beat" , joins host Joshua Turek to talk about books her friends and contemporaries have written, comics, zines, and the mutuality of creative relationships and how they've fostered her own journey as a writer. books talked about include: until it feels right - emily costa girl on girl House Next Door - Anne Rivers Siddons Comet Bus...

Host Joshua Turek is joined by guest Brian Recker , author of the new book "Hell Bent" (How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love). They discuss the books Brian read while researching his own, which details redefining his own spirituality and Christian beliefs. Discussing masculinity and softening the world, the two detail their own unique paths toward similar conclusi...

Political commentator Lily Eagla joins host Joshua Turek to discuss mutual aid, retraining the offline world back into your brain, and books that radicalized her. Sign up for Joshua's weekend Zoom Poetry workshop now for the Dec6&7 gathering! books mutual aid by dean spade Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini The Year of Living Biblically Our American Israel 100 years was on palestine by rashid...

Guest Larry Charles and host Joshua Turek talk SF and LA noir, science fiction grounded on Earth, Larry's new memoir Comedy Samurai . They talk personal growth, the transformative power of literature and how reading can serve as both a source of pleasure and a means of preserving sacred knowledge. for Josh's poetry books , they're on sale until the end of the year, signed copies available domestic...

Guest Yasha Levine and Host Joshua Turek discuss everything from technofeudalism to pistachios. San Francisco! For tickets Nov 1 to see Yasha's new documentary at Roxie Theater with live Q&A hosted by Joshua Turek here For Josh's poetry books and his weekend Zoom workshop on Nov 8 & 9 visit his site Books Talked About Include Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord Surveillance Valley - Yash...

Recorded remotely from Bad Animal Books in Santa Cruz, CA. Joshua Turek and Maddy Power Maddy shares her personal experience of losing her home and books in the Eaton Canyon Fire in Alta Dena and the two books she grabbed before evacuating To sign up to Joshua's Zoom Poetry Weekend Workshop visit joshuaturek.com Books talked about include: Werener Herzog's Guide for the Perplexed Agnes Varda inter...

On a pit stop in Santa Cruz with family between dates on my comedy tour (Get your tickets to my San Diego show Friday and L.A. , SF , Eureka , next week then Seattle and Portland ) before heading up the west coast. I get into a little of what I'm reading, my favorite bookstores so far on this trip, and why I took this podcast off of Spotify (hint they're evil). Come to my shows if I'm in your city...

Officially on my comedy tour across the United States during particularly distressing times. It took six nights and five days but the morning after my first headlining show at Rodney's in Manhattan I managed some time to visit the staple bookstore of NYC "The Strand". CHICAGO my show at Zanies is tonight! Tickets are getting low. You can use discout code TUREK10 for $15.75 tickets here . The rest...

Comedian Cam George of Talking Talk Tuah now Talking Talk podcast discusses being mystified by Infinite Jest and encountering this red flag memed book with new eyes. Joshua's U.S. comedy tour starts this Saturday in New York City. That's Saturday night June 21 at Rodney's on the Upper Eastside. Followed by Chicago on Tuesday June 24 at Zanies. Philadelphia June 27. Dallas June 29 and more. Get tic...

Catch Joshua on tour ! New York City show is in two weeks at Rodney's on 6/21! Chicago at Zainies 6/24 ! Philly at Next in Line Comedy 6/27 ! And More ....Just added New Orleans! Boise! Coming soon with more dates. Follow my Bandsintown to be notified! And order signed copies of my poetry book EMT and Political Creator Hugo of Seize the Means Shirts talks reading 70 books a year with host Joshua T...

Catch Joshua Turek on comedy tour this summer of 2025. To get notified of cities and dates follow his bandsintown and to buy signed copies of his new poetry book "Of Dumb Importance" on joshuaturek.com Writer and filmmaker Evgenia Kovda goes in depth with host Joshua Turek on sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. Did this troubled man predict the future we are living in now or was he the architect of it f...

Josh's sister musician and author Britt Warner brings books that make her miss L.A. and her own novella "Swimming with Horses" . For tickets to Josh's Summer of Discontent Comedy Tour 2025 click here and to get a signed copy of the new poetry book "Of Dumb Importance" click here international friends who want to pay normal shipping for the book can get it here Books talked about include: Swimming...

Comedian and producer of Chatterbox comedy, Steve Hernandez , talks books about rich men seducing young women, polyamory, his own experiences with fatherhood, open relationships, comedy, and navigating his passions toward the shrinking prizes of industry. For even more on Steve check him out here Joshua Turek is going on a 2025 summer comedy tour! New York City is first on June 21! Chicago, Philly...

Catch Joshua Turek on his comedy tour this summer! Tickets are up for shows in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, L.A., Eureka, Seattle, Portland, Kansas City with more dates and cities coming soon at joshuaturek.com . First 3 in each city to send proof of tickets to acalmquietplace@gmail.com get a free copy of Josh's new poetry book after the corresponding show! Musician and sign language int...

Catch Joshua Turek on comedy tour this summer! Tickets are up for shows in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, L.A., Seattle, Portland, Kansas City with more dates and cities coming soon at joshuaturek.com Author of "The Body is a Doorway", Sophie Strand talks with host Joshua Turek about her memoir, mycellial networks, books as guides to our psychic lives, and how both of them want to open boo...

Film Director Joe Carnahan (The Grey, Narc, RIP -new movie starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) and host Joshua Turek discuss a wide range of topics from the LA wildfires to never meeting your heroes. Joe brings a Noam Chomsky book and tells of why he can't read James Ellroy books anymore. They get into Trump and Biden and the U.S. imperial apparatus but also have a good time. Want to see Joshua T...

Host Joshua Turek sits down with Desert Scientist and Reptile Expert, Robert Villa, who is also in Community Outreach at the University of Arizona Desert Labs at Tumamoc Hill in Tucson. Their conversation spans, Sonoran Desert books, Pablo Neruda poems, and the interdependence of all life on Earth. Joshua is going on comedy tour this summer! Check dates on his site joshuaturek.com so far tickets a...

Host Joshua Turek returns with a solo episode of Turek Books after a few months hiatus and his relocation to Tucson. He discusses the very timely book, "Technofeudalism" at length as it was the first pick for a book club on his Turek Books IG live. He also gets into what else he's reading. "Debt" by David Graeber, "The Bible" by whoever wrote it, "All the Shahs Men" a book on U.S. interference in...

$5 from every poetry book sold on my website this week going to wildfire relief in la www.joshuaturek.com I sit in a park in Tucson and discuss this week’s events and my own strange unmoored evacuation and plans for the show. Thank you for listening and stay safe books talked about include Sam Shepard larry mcmurtry Jane Jacobs my poetry book Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

Used bookseller, musician, and writer, Tim Conrad Horner joins Joshua to talk paranoid books, books without faces on the covers, and a project he is building with objects he has found inside of old books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.