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!

Find Us Online (collectively) - Twitter, Tumblr, Formspring

Find Us Online (individually) - Josh, Paul, Jenn

Outro Music; Delmos Wade - Smooth Criminal

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