The Bookrageous Podcast

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Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise.

Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise.

We had some mic issues during this recording; sorry for the occasional fuzz!

Intro Music; Showbiz? Science? Who Cares? -- Less than Jake

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:21] When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, Lawrence Block (Matthew Scudder Series #6), courtesy of the Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club

[2:21] Georgette Heyer already!, These Old Shades

[3:33] Bigger Than a Breadbox, Laurel Snyder

Rebecca

[4:45] Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Mindy Kaling

[7:16] Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Megan Mayhew Bergman, March 2012

[8:18] Dirty Minds, Kayt Sukel, February 2012

Josh

[9:21] 50 Funniest American Writers, Andy Borowitz; I Found This Funny, Judd Apatow

[11:21] The Mirage, Matt Ruff, February 2012

Mary Roach!!!!!!!!

[14:22] God, No!, Penn Jillette

[16:16] Rin Tin Tin, Susan Orlean

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Intermission; Dry -- Lealea Jones
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Non-Fiction as Continuing Education

[20:00] Stiff, Mary Roach

[23:16] Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha

[23:28] A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman

[24:12] A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

[24:30] Sarah Vowell

[25:21] K Blows Top, Peter Carlson

[25:32] Last Call, Daniel Okrent

[26:12] Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku; Elegant Universe, Brian Greene

[29:17] The Poisoner’s Handbook, Deborah Blum

[30:00] The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

[31:12] The Fruit Hunters, Adam Gollner

[32:00] Annie Proulx

[33:05] How Mary Roach got into writing

[35:00] Books as social lubrication

[38:00] The Vikings, Robert Ferguson

[39:50] “Nonfiction so good it reads like fiction”: Y/N?

[41:30] The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

[42:58] Born to Run, Christopher McDougall

[45:40] The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe; Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

[47:36] Truth and “lies” in nonfiction; The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata and Jim Fingal, February 2012

[52:35] In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin

[56:15] Authors & Wish-Fulfillment (Packing for Mars)

[57:53] Floaters!

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Outro; Showbiz? Science? Who Cares? -- Less than Jake

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Zone One, Colson Whitehead

Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club

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Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise.

Intro Music; My Wasted Friends -- The Ike Reilly Assassination

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:32] The Shadow World, Andrew Feinstein

[3:16] The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata and Jim Finlay, February 2012

[6:53] Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King

Adam Ross!!!!!

[8:20] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, June 2012

[10:25] First Love, Ivan Turgenev

[10:33] The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides

[10:50] Jim Shepard: Project X; Like You’d Understand, Anyway

[11:30] 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Jane Smiley

[11:53] The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz

[16:11] Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon

Josh

[16:35] Americus, MK Reed and Jonathan Hill

[20:15] Lord of the Flies, William Golding

[22:00] Adam on To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

[22:40] A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages, Stephen Rogers

Jenn

[24:40] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell (as recommended by Rebecca and Keryn)

[26:27] Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King

[26:34] Shaping Things, Bruce Sterling

[28:08] Lost Everything, Brian Francis Slattery, April 2012; Liberation, Spaceman Blues

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Intermission; Morning Fog -- Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi
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Short Stories

[35:53] Ladies and Gentlemen, Adam Ross (Best Fiction of 2011)

[39:20] Volt, Alan Heathcock

[41:10] Instant Love, Jami Attenberg; Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri

[42:54] We Others, Steven Millhauser; The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

[43:53] What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Laura Van Den Berg

[45:23] The Courage Consort, Michel Faber

[45:45] The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis

[47:20] Best American Short Stories

[47:25] The World of the Short Story, Clifton Fadiman

[48:40] James Salter: Dusk and Other Stories; A Sport and a Past-Time

[50:00] Pam Houston

[50:15] Moral Disorder and Other Stories, Margaret Atwood

[50:40] The Whore’s Child, Richard Russo

[51:08] How to Breathe Underwater, Julie Orringer; St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell

[51:50] Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross

[56:12] Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, Isaac Babel

[56:40] The Progress of Love, Alice Munro

[57:21] The Stories of John Cheever and The Journals of John Cheever

[59:00] Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Haruki Murakami; John Updike; The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence

[59:56] Rock Springs, Richard Ford

[1:00:08] The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

[1:02:15] Emperor of the Air, Ethan Canin

[1:02:37] Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

[1:03:23] Like You’d Understand, Anyway, Jim Shepard

[1:04:49] Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Leaf Storm), Eyes of a Blue Dog

[1:06:20] AS Byatt: The Matisse Stories, Little Black Book of Stories

[1:07:17] Old Men at Midnight, Chaim Potok; My Name is Asher Lev, The Chosen

[1:07:52] The Great Frustration, Seth Fried (as recommended by Ali); Charles Yu

[1:08:44] In the Valley of the Kings, Terrence Holt

[1:09:38] Out of the Girls’ Room and Into the Night, Thisbe Nissen

[1:10:22] Birds of America, Lorrie Moore

[1:10:43] Flash Fiction

[1:11:25] Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino; The Night in Question, Tobias Wolff; Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers, Stanley Elkin

[1:12:10] The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

[1:12:35] A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

[1:14:00] Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, Harold Brodke

[1:14:23] Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut (Who Am I This Time?)

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Outro; My Wasted Friends -- The Ike Reilly Assassination

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Find Us!

Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, Zazzle (for the Bookrageous 2011-2012 calendar), and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323

Find Us Online: Jenn, Josh, Rebecca, Jenn, Adam Ross

Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Zone One, Colson Whitehead

Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club

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Intro Music; No Scrubs -- Karmin

What We’re Reading

Josh

[1:28] Zone One, Colson Whitehead [this is our book club pick for October, put BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments of your order to get 10% off from WORD!]

[1:49] The Passage, Justin Cronin

[2:12] The Whore of Akron, Scott Raab, November 1 2011

Rebecca

[5:32] The Passage, Justin Cronin

Jenn

[9:00] Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway, March 20 2012 (The Gone-Away World)

[10:40] Bees are interesting, you guys!

[11:15] The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, Victor Pelevin

[12:56] Terrier, Tamora Pierce

[14:26] How to Save a Life, Sara Zarr

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Intermission; Low Light, Low Life -- POS
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Fall Trade Shows 2011

[18:16] The Curious Garden, YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND!, Peter Brown

[19:08] Zone One, Colson Whitehead, and MacArthur Park (the Donna Summer version)

[20:45] Waking, Ron Rash (Serena)

[23:05] The Bookstore of the Future, recapped in Publishers Weekly

[24:00] I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck

[25:06] Contents May Have Shifted, February 1 2012, Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness)

[26:30] I’m With the Bears, various incl. Margaret Atwood

[27:30] Deep Economy, Bill McKibben

[28:25] Long Distance

[28:42] Sugarhouse, Matthew Batt, June 19 2012

[29:26] Cabin

[30:05] Wild, Cheryl Strayed, March 20 2012 (also recommended by Michele/readandbreathe!)

[30:55] A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

[32:16] The Invisible Ones, Stef Penney, January 5 2012

[33:25] The Mirage, Matt Ruff, February 1 2012

[36:00] Granta 116: Ten Years Later

[38:30] American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar, January 9 2012 (as recommended by Kalen/kalenski)

[40:15] Pure, Julianna Baggott, February 1 2012 (Which Brings Me to You)

[43:00] The Nerdist Way, Chris Hardwick, November 1 2011

[44:24] A Good American, Alex George, February 7 2012

[45:25] Emily St. John Mandel

[45:50] Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Megan Mayhew Bergman, March 6 2012

[47:00] The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata, Jim Fingal, February 1 2012

[47:49] About a Mountain, John D’Agata

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Outro; No Scrubs -- Karmin

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Find Us!

Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, Zazzle (for the Bookrageous 2011-2012 calendar), and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323

Find Us Online: Jenn, Josh, Rebecca

Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club

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Intro Music; Smells Like Teen Spirit -- Nirvana

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:10] Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

[1:30] Love at First Bark, Julie Klam

[2:26] Shiny Objects, James A. Roberts, November 1 2011

[3:50] My Beautiful Genome, Lone Frank

Jenn

[5:35] The Sixth Gun: Cold Dead Fingers, Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt

[6:36] Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner

[7:34] Beautiful & Pointless, David Orr

[9:01] Arcadia, Lauren Groff, March 1 2012 (The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds)

[10:26] Out, Natsuo Kirino

Josh

[11:51] I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck

[13:27] The Truth of All Things, Kieran Shields, March 27 2012

[15:46] Pax Romana, Jonathan Hickman

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Intermission; Freedom -- Rage Against the Machine
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Subversive Books

[20:23] Bored of the Rings, Henry Beard, Douglas C. Kenney

[21:44] Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut

[22:20] Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews

[23:20] The Giver, Lois Lowry

[24:37] Maus, Art Spiegelman

[25:40] A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

[27:06] Earth, David Brin

[28:54] Native Son, Richard Wright

[30:23] Sex is Not a Natural Act, Leonore Tiefer

[31:39] Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

[33:45] The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

[34:43] Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli

[35:11] Shame, Salman Rushdie

[36:10] Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

[37:37] The Usual Suspects

[38:15] The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway

[38:07] The Purity Myth, Jessica Valenti

[40:06] The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell; Freakonomics, Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner

[40:58] Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff

[42:51] Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

[43:57] Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson

[45:11] Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber

[45:44] Reality Hunger, David Shields

[46:33] The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

[46:47] Little Brother, Cory Doctorow

[47:14] The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

[47:55] His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

[48:05] Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross

[48:32] Disinformation series, Richard Metzger

[49:46] On Liberty, John Stuart Mill

[50:52] Ghost World, Dan Clowes, Adam Grano; V for Vendetta, Alan Moore, David Lloyd

[51:15] OccupyWallStreet Library on LibraryThing

[51:30] Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara, Jorge Castaneda

[52:40] The Magicians, Lev Grossman; The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan

[53:16] The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

[54:25] Primary Colors, Wag the Dog

[54:56] Hunter S. Thompson

[55:13] Matt Taibbi

[55:46] The House of Tomorrow, Peter Bognanni; Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb, George Rabasa

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Outro; Smells Like Teen Spirit -- Nirvana

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Find Us!

Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, Zazzle (for the Bookrageous 2011-2012 calendar), and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323

Find Us Online: Jenn, Josh, Rebecca

Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club

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