If Books Could Kill
- Category
- Culture
- Publisher
- Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
- Host
- Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri
- Language
- English
If Books Could Kill, hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri, takes a bestselling ideas book and asks whether the idea survives contact with the chapters.
Airport nonfiction is the prey: a big claim, a few studies, a title that promises a new way to see the world. The hosts read it so you can hear the argument fail in detail, with jokes.
The series is a narrative of intellectual fashion. You get the author’s rise, the book’s reception, and the specific page where the reasoning slips. It is criticism that tells a story about why the book sold.
You do not need to have read the book. Hearing one episode is enough to recognize the template. Hearing three is enough to get angry about it.
Last episode listed in the official feed
Surrounded By Idiots
Read from the publisher’s RSS on Oct 3, 2026 · Sep 1, 2026 ET. Audio is not hosted here.
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