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Bookrageous Episode 29; Short Stories

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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