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Bookrageous Episode 53; National Poetry Month

Apologies for occasional fades in sound!

Intro Music; Poetry of the Deed by Frank Turner

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:25] I Await the Devil’s Coming, Mary MacLane

[4:40] In Cold Blood, Truman Capote; Wall Street Journal and Salon pieces

[6:20] The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata and Jim Fingal

[7:30] films: Capote; In Cold Blood

Rebecca

[9:25] All That Is, James Salter

[12:25] Drinking With Men, Rosie Schaap

[14:25] The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (recommended by Jeff)

[15:25] Sisterland, Curtis Sittenfeld, June 25 2013

Josh

[16:11] Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland, Josh Christie, May 7 2013 (congratulations, Josh!)

[17:35] The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories, Simon Rich

[21:30] The Odyssey, Robert Fitzgerald

[22:30] Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man, Thomas Foster

Lacy

[25:05] Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

[25:15] To Sell Is Human, Daniel Pink

[25:40] Number9Dream, David Mitchell

[26:15] The Gift, Lewis Hyde

[27:39] Baby Meets World, Nicholas Day

[29:50] Life After Life, Kate Atkinson

[31:10] Bluets, Maggie Nelson

[32:00] Destroyer and Preserver, Matthew Rohrer

[32:15] The Comfort of Things, Daniel Miller

[33:45] Footsteps, Richard Holmes

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Intermission; Boys Want to Be Her by Peaches

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Poetry

[36:15] Red Doc>, Anne Carson

[36:35] Poetry Foundation app

[38:45] Bluets, Maggie Nelson

[39:30] Wave Books

[32:40] From Rachel Rooney: good places to start with Poetry? the Poetry Foundation app; The Writer’s Almanac, Garrison Keillor

[48:50] Forklift, Ohio

[50:10] poetry on the Tumblr: Kat Howard, Leigh Stein, Saeed Jones; Bryan McGacklin

[51:50] Power Politics, Margaret Atwood

[52:55] The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

[53:25] Collected Poems, Chinua Achebe

[54:25] Maybe the Saddest Thing, Marcus Wicker

[56:10] Spectacle, Susan Steinberg

[56:30] Copper Canyon Press

[57:10] When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams

[1:01:55] It Becomes You, Dobby Gibson

[1:02:15] Elegy Owed, Bob Hicok

[1:03:25] Women’s Poetry, Daisy Fried

[1:03:55] Appetite, Aaron Smith

[1:05:30] Blowout, Denise Duhamel

[1:06:05] Come, Thief, Jane Hirshfield

[1:07:00] Pank Magazine app

1:14:20 Share your favorite poems/poets with us! Tag us on Twitter (#bookrageous); throw ‘em in the ask box on Tumblr.

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Outro Music; Poetry of the Deed by Frank Turner

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Intro Music; Lost Ends by Twinstar

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:15] Lawless, Jeff Salane

[2:50] Red Doc>, Anne Carson

[4:00] How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid

[6:20] The Human Division, John Scalzi (read-along on Tor.com)

Josh

[8:50] How to Love Wine, Eric Asimov

[13:00] Salt Sugar Fat, Michael Moss

[13:55] The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart

[14:30] One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Sarah MacLean; digression on romance novels

[23:35] Bet Me, Jennifer Crusie

Rebecca

[25:30] Tampa, Alissa Nutting

[32:30] The movie Jenn was trying to remember the name of is Notes on a Scandal

[36:20] Out, Natsuo Kirino (via Book Riot: Baddass Female Revenge Thrillers)

[38:00] Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed

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Intermission; I Still Think of You from Time to Time by Louville

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Adaptations

[43:20] The Princess Bride, William Goldman

[44:15] High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

[44:45] Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

[46:30] In Her Shoes, Jennifer Wiener

[47:00] Nothing Lasts Forever, Roderick Thorp (Die Hard)

[48:10] The Hours, Michael Cunningham

[48:50] Children of Men, P.D. James

[50:00] The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte (The Ninth Gate)

[51:15] A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (Simon Birch)

[52:20] To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

[53:00] Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

[54:35] Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

[56:30] Jenn begs you to put your opinions about the Cloud Atlas movie in our Tumblr ask box!

[56:55] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

[57:20] The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

[58:00] Austen adaptations

[58:35] Watchmen, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

[59:30] Sin City, Frank Miller

[1:01:20] The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

[1:03:00] Harry Potter, JK Rowling

[1:04:20] Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko

[1:05:05] Modern adaptations: Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Easy A, Great Expectations, O

[1:07:50] A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin

[1:10:35] Catch-22, Joseph Heller

[1:10:45] Ursula Le Guin

[1:11:15] The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien; The Hobbit

[1:15:10] The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan

[1:15:40] Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway

[1:15:55] The Magicians, Lev Grossman

[1:17:00] Video game adaptations: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.; Metro 2033; The Witcher; The New Yorker interview with Tom

Bissell; Literature’s Greatest Video Games

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Outro; Lost Ends by Twinstar

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Rebecca

[1:35] The Engagements, J. Courtney Sullivan, June 11 2013

[6:25] The House at Belle Fontaine and Other Stories, Lily Tuck, May 1 2013

[7:15] One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Sarah MacLean (A Rogue by Any Other Name)

[10:25] Burning the Days, James Salter

Jenn

[11:05] Grave Mercy, Robin LaFevers (Dark Triumph, April 2 2013)

[13:35] The Gods of Gotham, Lyndsay Faye (on Tumblr)

[15:04] The Towers of Midnight, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (for Book Riot series What the WoT)

Josh

[16:10] Who Censored Roger Rabbit, Gary Wolf

[18:10] “The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden,” Phil Bronstein

[19:10] Wool, Hugh Howey

[20:25] Tampa, Alissa Nutting, July 1 2013

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Intermission; Listen Up by Gossip

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Books and Memory

[26:45] The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

[27:35] The Life of Pi, Yann Martel

[28:21] The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

[29:05] The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss

[30:00] Caps for Sale, Esphyr Slobodkina

[30:33] Hop on Pop, Dr. Seuss

[31:30] Home for a Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown

[32:33] The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

[36:15] James Howe

[36:50] Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

[43:00] Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, Bill Clegg

[44:50] Everything You Know is Wrong, Russ Kick

[46:00] The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler

[47:15] Stiff, Mary Roach

[49:00] The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson

[49:30] Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke

[50:43] Candyfreak, Steve Almond

[52:40] The Godfather, Mario Puzo

[55:20] Scenes from an Impending Marriage, Adrian Tomine

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[58:30] Enna Burning, Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

[59:30] The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

[1:00:10] Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis

[1:00:50] The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

[1:01:50] The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien

[1:03:55] Eliot’s Banana, Heather Swain

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Outro; Do Right by Jimmie's Chicken Shack

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What We’re Reading

Josh

[1:20] Gulp, Mary Roach, April 2 2013

[2:55] An Armenian Sketchbook, Vassily Grossman

[4:00] Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, Anna Anthropy

Rebecca

[7:05] Ivyland, Miles Klee

[8:05] I Can Barely Take Care of Myself, Jen Kirkman, April 16 2013

[9:05] When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams (courtesy of Gabrielle)

Jenn

[11:55] Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams

[13:35] American Childhood, Annie Dillard

[15:10] What Are You Doing Here?, Laina Dawes, Bazillion Points (rec’d by Toby Carroll); Dawes interviewed on NPR

[18:20] Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell

[20:35] His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

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Intermission; Hotline by Jasper Byrne

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E-Books Revisited

Prior conversation: Episode 17: e-reading, April 2011

[27:10] Update: Kobo app does not work on Nook tablet, sorry Rebecca!

[27:35] Note on shopping Kobo via indies: Make sure you’re creating your account through either a dedicated link from the bookstore or through their website!

[34:30] The Largely Irrational Reasons I’m Not Ready to Go All-Digital, Amanda Nelson (Book Riot)

[41:35] Dave Eggers on ebooks

[46:05] Perdido Street Station, China Mieville

[48:50] Waltzing the Cat, Pam Houston

[51:15] TURRIBLE digital formatting (OR Books)

[55:50] Down with DRM!

[59:55] The Selected Works of TS Spivet, Reif Larsen (app)

[1:00:30] How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman (app)

[1:01:10] The Elements, Theodore Gray (app)

[1:02:30] Inkling; Tasting Beer, Randy Mosher (app)

[1:03:55] Literary reviews publishing ebooks: Electric Literature; The Millions; Book Riot

[1:09:20] Further proof that e-books do, in fact, cost money to produce, MobyLives (Melville House)

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Outro; 21st Century Digital Boy by Bad Religion

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[1:25] The Vanishers, Heidi Julavits

[3:25] Daring Greatly, Brené Brown; TED talk on vulnerability

[4:15] Nana Vol. 1, Ai Yazawa

[5:30] One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Sarah MacLean

Michelle

[6:45] The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy

[7:10] The Dog Stars, Peter Heller

[8:25] Magnificence, Lydia Millett

[8:45] The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka

Sarah

[12:15] Hell or High Water, Joy Castro

[13:40] Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple

Rebecca

[16:15] Gulp, Mary Roach, April 1 2013

[18:10] Dear Life, Alice Munro

[19:35] Elders, Ryan Mcilvain, March 5 2013

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Intermission; The Editor by Mobley

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How a Book is Made, Pt 2 (Agents and Editors)

Michelle Brower, Folio Lit
Sarah Knight, Simon and Schuster

[28:45] The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, Michele Young-Stone

[40:45] Nightshifted, Cassie Alexander

[41:05] The House Girl, Tara Conklin, February 1 2013

[43:30] David Maraniss, Chris Matthews

[44:40] The House Girl, Tara Conklin (on the Indie Next list!)

[45:40] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

[46:21] Sharp Objects, Dark Places

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Outro; I Could Write a Book by Harry Connick Jr

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Jenn

[1:10] Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

[2:30] The Secret History, Donna Tartt

[4:20] Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ (from Singularity&Co)

Rebecca

[6:00] Where’d You Go Bernadette, Maria Semple

[8:25] Wifey, Judy Blume

[11:40] There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Night, Laura van den Berg (What the World Will Look Like...)

[15:00] Digression: Rebecca and short stories

[16:00] Books on the Nightstand’s Year of the Short Story

[17:05] Saints and Sinners, Edna O’Brien

Josh

[19:00] Cyclepedia, Michael Embacher, Paul Smith

[20:25] Scoundrels, Timothy Zahn (for Fuzzy Typewriter discussion)

[21:15] Traffic, Tom Vanderbilt

[23:05] Readlists

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Intermission; Mad About Cycles by Murat Esmer

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In Other Worlds

Discussion: In Other Worlds, Margaret Atwood

[32:45] Jacqueline Carey

Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood

[42:00] Jenn’s quibble; She; Woman on the Edge of Time; News from Nowhere; Consider Her Ways; 1984

[48:50] Open invitation to Margaret Atwood to join the show

[58:15] Next book group pick: She, H. Rider Haggard

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Outro; Freedom at 21 by Jack White

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Rebecca

[1:10] Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere, Andre Aciman

[3:00] Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, various

[5:10] The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer, April 9 2013

[6:30] Suttree, Cormac McCarthy

Josh

[7:10] Desperate Sons, Les Standiford

[9:05] from recommendations on iFanboy, Graphic Canon: Vol. 2, Russ Kick (Vol. 3 coming in March 2013)

[11:15] The Rime of the Modern Mariner, Nick Hayes

[13:00] Jenn interjects: Down in the Hole, Joy Delyria and Sean Michael Robinson (recommended by Emily)

Jenn

[14:15] The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan (Tender Morsels)

[16:50] The Rise of Ransom City, Felix Gilman (The Half-Made World; also try Sixth Gun)

[18:15] Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (Moby-Dick Marathon NYC); Moby Dick Big Read (h/t to Holly)

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Intermission; Mama Told Me from Big Boi feat. Little Dragon

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2012 Favorites

[21:50] Rebecca: Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Megan Mayhew Bergman

[23:30] Josh: Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed

[25:00] Jenn: Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway

[26:55] Rebecca: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain

[28:50] Josh: Mortality, Christopher Hitchens

[30:44] Jenn: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka (Episode 40)

[32:40] Rebecca: Quiet, Susan Cain

[37:25] Josh: Penguin’s Civic Classics series

[39:50] Jenn: Railsea, China Mieville

[42:35] Rebecca: Ask the Passengers, A.S. King

[44:55] Josh: Drama, Raina Telgemeier

[46:25] Jenn: This Is Not My Hat, Jon Klassen (Buy prints of his work!)

[49:10] Rebecca: Contents May Have Shifted, Pam Houston

[51:20] Josh: Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon

[53:25] Jenn: The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata and Jim Fingal

[55:20] Rebecca: The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers

[58:50] Josh: This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz

[1:00:45] Jenn: Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore

[1:03:00] Rebecca: Diving Belles, Lucy Wood

[1:06:30] Josh: The World Atlas of Beer, Tim Webb and Stephen Beaumont

[1:08:20] Jenn: The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

[1:10:20] Rebecca: Arcadia, Lauren Groff

[1:13:10] Josh: Modernist Cuisine at Home, Nathan Myhrvold and Maxime Bilet

[1:16:10] Jenn: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland, Catherynne Valente (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland)

[1:17:40] Rebecca: Home, Toni Morrison

[1:20:10] Josh: The Rime of the Modern Mariner, Nick Hayes

[1:22:35] Jenn: The Killing Moon, NK Jemisin

[1:25:25] Rebecca: Breasts, Florence Williams (check out the trailer); cheater shout-out to The Guide to Getting It On

[1:28:45] Josh: Several Short Sentences About Writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg

[1:30:30] Jenn: Safe as Houses, Marie-Helene Bertino

[1:32:45] The Adam Ross Award for 2012 goes to: Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, originally recommended by Adam Ross! (Runners up: Angelmaker, Arcadia, The Lifespan of a Fact, Drop Dead Healthy, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, Telegraph Avenue)

[1:37:00] Book group: In Other Worlds, Margaret Atwood, discussion next show!

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Outro; Northern Lights by Allo Darlin

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What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:20] Woke Up Lonely, Fiona Maazel, April 2 2013

[4:03] Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan

[6:50] St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell

[8:40] Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell, February 12 2013

Jenn

[9:40] The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Teddy Wayne, February 5 2013 (Kapitoil)

[12:05] Old Man’s War series, John Scalzi (Old Man’s War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, Zoe’s Tale)

[12:40] Cold Days, Jim Butcher

Josh

[13:55] Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley, Robert Sheckley

[14:50] Amsterdam Stories, Nescio

[15:50] Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell, February 12 2013

[17:45] The Dinner, Herman Koch, February 12 2013

[19:10] Guide to Getting It On, Paul Joannides, Toni Johnson, Daerick Gross, Sr.

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Intermission; Passion Pit - Constant Conversations (Chrome Canyon remix)

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Comfort Food Books

[26:55] The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie; The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick

[31:30] Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan

[34:05] A.S. King

[36:00] Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby

[36:40] Reign of Fire

[38:25] Homeland; Justified; The Wire

[39:15] Frank Miller

[39:40] Anchorman, Star Wars, Back to the Future

[41:00] The Princess Bride; When Harry Met Sally; Elf

[41:10] P.G. Wodehouse; Agatha Christie

[43:00] John Irving

[43:15] Nicholas Sparks

[44:00] Mary Roach

[45:10] Nora Roberts

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Outro; Lord Huron - The Stranger

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