{"podcast":{"title":"3 Books With Neil Pasricha","slug":"3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850","podcast_index_feed_id":230850,"rss_url":"https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/117111/destinations/671382.xml","website_url":"http://www.3books.co","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/9/e/9/e9e9657d59ec593416c3140a3186d450/3Books_Logo_2022.jpg","author":"Neil Pasricha","episode_count":216,"summary":"3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 22-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Shirley The Nurse, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Angie Thomas, David Mitchell, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, Judy Blume, and Quentin Tarantino. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each of the 333 chapters dropped on the exact minute of every single full moon all the way up to 10:37 PM EST on April 26, 2040. 3 Books is an Apple \"Best Of\" award-winning show and is 100% non-profit with no ads, no sponsors, no commercials, and no interruptions. 3 Books has 3 clubs including the End of the Podcast Club, the Cover to Cover Club, and the Secret Club, which operates entirely through the mail and is only accessible by calling 1-833-READ-A-LOT. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bes…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T04:19:17.860573+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850"},"episode":{"title":"Chapter 152: Robin Sloan weaves wonder and weirdness into the warbly world of words","slug":"chapter-152-robin-sloan-weaves-wonder-and-weirdness-into-the-warbly-world-of-words","published_at":"2025-09-07T18:09:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/chapter-152-robin-sloan-weaves-wonder-and-weirdness-into-the-warbly-world-of-words","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850","url":"https://threebooks.libsyn.com/chapter-152-robin-sloan-weaves-wonder-and-weirdness-into-the-warbly-world-of-words","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/threebooks/3BOOKS_CH152_Final.mp3?dest-id=671382","summary":"Last year I picked up a book called ' ​ Moonbound ​ ' by Robin Sloan and it blew me away. Reading it was like riding some rainbow-speckled rocket ship where I experienced the bizarre combination of having no idea what was going on while not being able to wait for what happened next. The book was full of talking beavers. Talking swords! Strange video games. And ever-expanding worlds with wizards, who maybe aren't really wizards, and oh—it's narrated by a microscopic AI-type chronicler, who's been in many different lives across millennia and who now sits inside our protagonist's left shoulder. The writing was like a jacked up 'Star Wars' meets 'Cloud Atlas' by ​ David Mitchell ​ featuring Willy Wonka and Mad Hatter types with moments of poignancy dashed in to let us see, and see around, our endlessly twisting lives together. It is a big, loud, cymbal crash of a book so after I was done I reached out to the giant-minded author Robin Sloan to invite him on the show. Robin Sloan is a writer, printer, and manufacturer—his new 3-word biography!—with three mind-expanding novels including ' ​ Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore ​ ', ' ​ Sourdough ​ ', and, of course, the magical ' ​ Moonbound ​ '. Robin splits his time between the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Joaquin Valley of California where he (wait for it) manufactures California extra virgin olive oil. He also (yes) prints wonderful zines and sends out a delightfully nerdy newsletter every 29 1/2 days via his ​ website ​ . Strap in as we discuss social media, AI ethics, childhood obsession, books as technology, olive oil, working with your partner, myths and identity, and, of course, the brilliant Robin Sloan's 3 most formative books… Let's flip the page to Chapter 152 now...","meta_description":"Last year I picked up a book called ' ​ Moonbound ​ ' by Robin Sloan and it blew me away. 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