The Reader: Robert Cottrell

Jan 24, 2020

A new podcast from the Browser where we interview a certain type of person that there isn't a good name for yet: someone with excellent taste who finds good things in a particular area of life (art, wine, podcasts, potato peelers....) and recommends them to a broad audience. In today's pilot, Browser Publisher Uri Bram interviews Browser Editor Robert Cottrell about how he reads and recommends writing of lasting value.

Good Things mentioned in this episode:

Our newsletter: The Browser

Dance critic: Alastair Macaulay

Tyler Cowen's "Underrated or Overrated?" round

Underrated City: Poznań (and Riga, and Tallinn)

Underrated Book: The Just City, by Jo Walton

Audiobook: A History of Western Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell

Underrated Musician: violinist Gidon Kremer

Small Item: Valmiermuižas Tumšais Alus beer