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, Dallas, San Diego, L.A., Eureka, Portland, Seattle, Tulsa, Kansas City, with more dates soon! Follow for tickets and new dates on his bandsintown or to buy tickets directly on his web site where his new poetry book "Of Dumb Importance" should be out any second now and is available for pre-order!

Books Talked About Include:

Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams fb tell all book

My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy

Open by Rachel Krantz

More by Molly Roden Winter

Writers and Lovers by Lily King

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Zealot by Reza Aslan

The Bible the book of James

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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 interpreter Dominique Matelson joins host Joshua Turek to discuss the pleasures and pitfalls of fantasy and how books from I Spy to Clarice Lespecter have helped her integrate her well being and creativity. Check out Dominique here https://www.instagram.com/dominiquematelson/ also wait until the very end to hear the song of hers "When I Told a Lie" they reference at the beginning of the conversation (music video on YouTube).

Books Talked About Include:

Books talked about include

I SPY Fantasy/Mystery

Clarice lespecter’s Complete Stories

No One Belongs Here More Than You Miranda July

All Fours Miranda July

Crime and Punishment

Confederacy of Dunces

Dunce Mary Ruefle

Alex’s journal Alex Cleo Rouboud

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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 bookstores. Check out Sophie's work here https://sophiestrand.com/

Books talked about include:

Plants in the imaginale realm

Ursula Leguin The Language of the Night

A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman

Joan of Arc by herself and her witnesses

Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry

Books by Larry Mcmurtry

the One Inside Sam Shepherd

Joseph Campbell myth books

Confederacy of Dunces

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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 Turek performing live? Visit joshuaturek.com for summer comedy tour dates! So far, San Diego, Seattle, Kansas City tickets are available with L.A., New York and more coming soon!

Check out Joe Carnahan's new movie "Shadow Force" and upcoming after that "RIP" starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

Books Talked About Include:

The Myth of American Idealism noam chomsky

Martyr Kaveh Akbar

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections and Freedom

All The Shahs Men Stephen Kinzer

Books by Larry McMurtry

Some New Kind of Kick by Kid Congo Powers

Werner Herzog Every Man For Himself and God Against All

God Is Not Great Christophr Hitchens

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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 are already available for San Diego and Seattle.

Bestiary-Pablo Neruda

The Desert -John Van Dycke

Blue Desert - Charles Bowden

Killing the Hidden Waters - Charles Bowden

-ofelia Zepeda

Debt - David Graeber

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$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

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