The director Steven Soderbergh has just released his second film of 2025: the spy thriller "Black Bag," starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett. In January 2024, Soderbergh spoke with host Gilbert Cruz about some of the more than 80 books that he read in the previous year. (This episode is a rerun.)
Books discussed:
"How to Live: A Life of Montaigne," by Sarah Bakewell
"Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining,'" by Lee Unkrich and J.W. Rinzler
"Cocktails with George and Martha," by Philip Gefter
The work of Donald E. Westlake
"Americanah," by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Pictures From an Institution," by Randall Jarrell
"Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will," by Robert M. Sapolsky
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