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Bookrageous Episode 41; Essays and Anthologies
Intro Music; Check -- The Rustic Overtones
What We’re Reading
Jenn
[1:10] Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
[2:55] Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (recommended by Molly)
[3:45] In Her Shoes, Jennifer Wiener
[4:36] Blasphemy, Sherman Alexie, October 1 2012
Rebecca
[5:00] A Cook’s Tour, Anthony Bourdain
[7:15] Get Jiro!, Anthony Bourdain
[8:00] The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
[13:05] The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, Hanna Rosin, September 11 2012
Josh
[18:10] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Dark Places, Sharp Objects)
[19:25] The Twelve, Justin Cronin, October 16 2012
[20:05] Presidential Campaign Posters
[21:16] Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute, Jonathan Howard [UK edition only]
[25:21] Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe, October 1 2012
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Intermission; I Don’t Know -- The Sheepdogs
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Essays and Anthologies
[27:30] The Longreads Phenomenon, Critical Margins
[30:10] Jenn’s Martha Gellhorn obsession (courtesy of the Picador Tumblr): The Face of War; various pieces on Byliner
[31:15] John Brockman
[31:12] Oliver Sacks
[33:20] The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment, AJ Jacobs (Drop Dead Healthy)
[35:05] Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed
[35:25] The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell
[36:15] Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
[37:50] Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon
[38:55] Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson
[39:30] The Blind Giant, Nick Harkaway (ebook)
[40:45] Some Remarks, Neal Stephenson, August 1 2012
[41:25] Magic Hours, Tom Bissell
[42:00] The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, David Grann (The Lost City of Z)
[43:44] I Just Lately Started Buying Wings, Kim Dana Kupperman (and more about Tiny Beautiful Things)
[46:15] The Boilerplate Rhino, David Quammen
[48:45] Sugar in My Bowl, Erica Jong
[50:50] March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown, edited by Elmer Luke and David Karashima
[51:20] Click: The Moment We Knew We Were Feminists, edited J. Courtney Sullivan and Courtney Martin
[52:39] Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, Geoff Dyer
[56:05] Good series: The Best American; Popular Culture and Philosophy; 33 ⅓ (Let’s Talk About Love, Fear of Music)
[59:40] Griftopia, Matt Taibbi
[1:00:15] Arguably, Christopher Hitchens
[1:00:50] The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem (paperback coming in October)
[1:01:20] Sophisticated Dorkiness’s Essay a Day
[1:01:50] I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
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Outro; Check -- The Rustic Overtones
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