My Favorite Things Episode 12: Jonathan Ellsworth
25 March 2026 at 19:00

My guest for Episode 12 is Jonathan Ellsworth, writer, podcaster, founder of Blister Review, and former philosophy professor. Jonathan's favorite things are:
1
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Publisher's Page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Old-Man-and-the-Sea/Ernest-Hemingway/Hemingway-Library-Edition/9781476787855
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/4216/9780684801223
2
Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life
Publisher's Page: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Philosophy+as+a+Way+of+Life%3A+Spiritual+Exercises+from+Socrates+to+Foucault-p-9780631180333
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/4216/9780631180333
3
Pulp Fiction
(trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGpTpVyI_OQ
4
Don Quixote by Pablo Picasso: https://www.pablopicasso.org/don-quixote.jsp
5
Bob Dylan, Mississippi
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-and-theft/552413840
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6iCUV1fm0Ag3Jg8zFniarc?si=9a507559372a4cfc
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaw-kODsFDE
Other stuff we talked about:
Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnWXunQhLXY