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What We’re Reading

Josh

[1:04] The Twelve, Justin Cronin, October 16 2012

[3:30] Thieftaker, DB Jackson, July 3 2012

[4:52] Longform (via Kevin Smokler)

Jenn

[5:50] Redshirts, John Scalzi

[6:55] True Grit, Charles Portis

[7:43] Castle, J Robert Lennon (recommended by bookavore)

[8:40] Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

Rebecca

[12:40] Shine Shine Shine, Lydia Netzer, July 17 2012

[15:05] Among Others, Jo Walton, Nebula Winner (also recommended by Liberty)

[17:20] Magic Hours, Tom Bissell

[18:42] Let’s Talk About Love, Carl Wilson (recommended by Kevin Smokler)

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Intermission; The Plank -- The Devil Makes Three

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BEA Postmortem

[22:01] BookExpo 2012: the vibe, Power Readers, etc.

[28:38] Jenn met Simon Winchester (Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman)

[29:33] Rebecca breathed the same air as Gloria Steinem (!!!) and met Naomi Wolf

[31:10] Bookrageous BEA Bash recap: Megan Mayhew Bergman, David Macinnis Gill, Brian Francis Slattery, J Courtney Sullivan, Emma Straub; big thanks to sponsors Vol. 1 Brooklyn, FSG’s Work in Progress, Small Demons, O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change, and especially Kat Meyer

Book Picks from the Show

[32:47] Josh: Modernist Cuisine at Home, Nathan Myhrvold & Maxime Bilet, October 1 2012

[35:19] Jenn: The Twelve, October 16 2012

[35:28] Rebecca: Vagina, Naomi Wolf, September 1 2012

[36:30] Josh: This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz, September 11 2012

[37:20] Jenn: The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg, October 23 2012

[38:26] Rebecca: She Matters: A Life in Friendships, Susanna Sonnenberg, January 8 2013

[40:05] women’s friendships: Commencement, J Courtney Sullivan; Let’s Take the Long Way Home, Gail Caldwell

[41:50] Rebecca: Dante’s Inferno, trans. by Mary Jo Bang, August 7 2012

[43:04] Josh: The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1

[45:12] Jenn: Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, Emma Straub, September 4 2012; Familiar, J. Robert Lennon, October 2 2012

[46:10] Rebecca: The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers, September 11 2012 (Billy Lynn’s Long Half-time Walk, Ben Fountain)

[47:20] Josh: Book Country site (via Colleen Lindsay)

[49:18] Jenn: Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon, September 11 2012; The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, Shani Boianjiu, September 11 2012

[50:55] Rebecca: Fifty Shames of Earl Grey: A Parody, Andrew Shaffer, July 1 2012; Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough, John Ross, October 16 2012; additional picks on Book Riot

[53:10] Rebecca: Consider the Fork, Bee Wilson, October 1 2012

[53:48] Coming soon: book group discussion! The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka; with Jon Page

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Outro; Bummer in the Summer -- Love

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