‘Pod Save America’

“Pod Save America” is a serious yet funny political podcast produced by Crooked Media.

The four men that are part of the production, Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor, have all worked as White House speech writers or White House correspondents, thus they have a wide scope of political knowledge.

The episodes are rather lighthearted and even sometimes hilarious, but they still address the important aspects of political issues in America.

If you are looking for some good insight on today’s most heated political topics, the guys at “Pod Save America” can be streamed on iTunes, GooglePlay and Spotify for free.

‘The Name of the Wind’

Patrick Rothfuss’s debut novel, “The Name of the Wind,” is one of the new great stories in the fantasy genre that will take readers and transport them to a different world.

The novel follows Kvothe, a street smart orphan whose mouth gets him into more trouble than it’s worth, and his journey from street performer to budding student at a university.

Rothfuss delivers an intriguing and complex story that will leave the reader flipping pages till the end.

‘The Magicians’

“The Magicians” is an inventive show about an average guy named Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) and his friend Julia (Stella Maeve), who find out they actually harbor magic.

Quentin gains admittance to Brakebills University, a school for learning magic, and he discovers this fantastical place he’d been reading about as a child, Fillory, is actually real.

He meets a girl named Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley), who is the smartest girl in school, a party boy magician named Elliot (Hale Appleman), who becomes his best friend, and he even makes a “frenemy” out of a guy who reads minds named Penny (Arjun Gupta), who is forced to help Quentin on his adventures.