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Episode 6; The 'Best American' Series

Intro Music; Delmos Wade - Smooth Criminal

What We're Reading

Paul

[1:20] Lehane's Kenzie and Gennaro series

Jenn

[4:04] Asterios Polyp by David Mazzuchelli

[6:21] Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Josh

[7:20] My Best Friend is a Wookiee by Tony Pacetti

[10:03] The Dungeon and Dragons "Red Box"

[13:55] Order of the Stick

[14:30] Luthor by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo

[15:03] Superman: The Black Ring by Paul Cornell and Pete Woods

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Break Music; America by Spinal Tap

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The Best American Series

[17:25] Short Stories, Comics, Sports Writing, Essays, Mystery Stories, Nonrequired Reading, Science and Nature Writing, and Travel Writing

[18:45] Encyclopedia Jenn and The Case of the 38 Books

[20:30] Nonrequired in-depth

[22:28] Best American Crime Reporting

[24:15] Comics in-depth (including Scott Pilgrim and Asterios Polyp)

Pitching Best American

[27:35] Pitching Best American Scripts - in which our heroes discuss a bunch of TV shows and films, as well as Panel One, The West Wing Script Book, Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, The Office: The Scripts Series One and Series Two, The Shawshank Redemption, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stranger than Fiction, the Powers Script Book, the Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays and The Ultimate Spider-Man Script Book. 

[36:27] Pitching Best American Criticism

[39:19] The "way too much good stuff to read" conundrum - in which we discuss The Best Writing on Mathematics, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Music Writing and Extra Lives.

Our Favorite Collections

[44:39] Little Black Book of Stories by A. S. Byatt

[46:20] Stories, edited by Niel Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio

[46:33] The Pop Gun and Flight anthologies

[47:35] Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

[48:32] My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited by Kate Bernheimer

[49:34] American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub

[50:40] Social Networking and all that jazz!

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Outro Music; Delmos Wade - Smooth Criminal

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Episode 5; Fall Trade Shows

Intro; Grand Theft Autumn - Fall Out Boy

What We're Reading

Rebecca

[1:20] Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

[2:38] What's Up Down There?: Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend by Lissa Rankin

[3:10] Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein

Jenn

[3:47] Power Girl: A New Beginning by Justin Gray; Jimmy Palmiotti; Amanda Conner (Illustrator)

[4:31] I Just Lately Started Buying Wings by Kim Dana Kupperman

Josh

[5:29] Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat

[7:40] Sex Tips from Rock Stars: In Their Own Words by Paul Miles

Break Music; Push It - Glee Cast

Fall Trade Shows

[11:03] Trade Show What Now?

Jenn

[11:42] NAIBA

[12:20] RIP, Joe Drabyak

Rebecca

[13:34] SIBA

[14:15] Social Networking Summit

[14:55] Drama at the Feast!

[16:12] Get In Bed

Josh

[17:04] NEIBA

[17:29] Awesome Presentations Are Awesome

[18:28] Speed-Dating, Bookseller Style

Shit-Loads of Books

[21:15] Jenn - Nothing Left to Burn by Jay Varner

[21:52] Rebecca - Carry the Rock by Jay Jennings

[23:07] Josh - My Best Friend Is a Wookie by Tony Pacitti

[24:33] Jenn - Numb by Sean Ferrell

[25:43] Rebecca - High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris

[27:26] Josh - Keep the Change by Steve Dublanica

[28:25] Jenn - The Broadcast by Eric Hobbs; Noel Tuazon (Illustrator)

[29:50] Rebecca - The Good Daughter by Jasmin Darznik

[31:11] Josh - The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell

[32:28] Jenn - The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard

[33:10] Rebecca - Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind by Ellen Firsching Brown; John Wiley

[34:26] Josh - Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury

[34:56] Jenn - The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier

[35:25] Rebecca - 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro

[36:31] Josh - The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer

[37:43] Josh - Palo Alto by James Franco

[38:22] Rebecca - Enough About Love by Herve Le Tellier

[38:43] Jenn - Zero History by William Gibson

As If You Need More

[39:20] Rebecca's Lists (NAIBA & SIBA) and Jenn's List

[39:55] Find Us!

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Outro Music; Grand Theft Autumn - Fall Out Boy