The Bookrageous Podcast

Intro Music; 1976 -- RJD2

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:16] The Starboard Sea, Amber Dermont, March 2012

[4:02] The Revisionists, Thomas Mullen

[4:42] Sex at Dawn, Ryan & Jetha

Jeff

[6:47] I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck

[8:52] The Funny Man, John Warner

[10:35] How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, Stanley Fish

[12:47] Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong (ebook)

[13:50] Jeff’s Wonkometer Scale: Malcolm Gladwell - 2, Freakonomics - 5, Martin Heidegger - 10

Josh

[14:27] Habibi, Craig Thompson

[14:52] Ghost Lights, Lydia Millet, October 2011

[17:20] Cabin, Lou Ureneck (started as a blog for NY Times)

[18:02] All the Way Home, Building a Home with My Husband

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Intermission; Freedom -- Jimi Hendrix
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Banned Books

[21:25] Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

[23:17] Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

[24:47] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

[31:08] Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs

[32:58] Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson

[33:36] Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut; Twenty Boy Summer, Sarah Ockler

[35:33] Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews

[40:00] Most Frequently Challenged Books list from the ALA, Banned Books Week website, stats on challenges at the ALA’s website

[44:20] The Color Purple, Alice Walker

[50:01] Maus, Art Spiegelman

[50:30] Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence

[52:02] that Amazon/pedophilia e-book thing

[55:45] Amazon & the LGBT deranking issue

[57:22] gay relationships in YA novels under attack

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Outro; 1976 -- RJD2

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