Bookrageous Episode 42; Stream of Consciousness
Apologies for Jenn’s occasionally wonky sound! There was a storm brewing in Brooklyn at the time of recording.
Intro Music; Nick Lowe - When I Write the Book
What We’re Reading
Josh
[1:02] Oral histories!
[1:50] Working, Studs Terkel
[2:10] Top of the Rock, Warren Littlefield, T.R. Pearson
[4:05] Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson
[4:20] Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Music, Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain
[4:30] Avengers Assemble: An Oral History of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Brian Michael Bendis
Rebecca
[5:20] Gillian Flynn binge
[5:45] Sarah Weinman’s list of thrillers for people who love Gone Girl
[6:05] In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B. Hughes
[8:45] Jenn recommends Out, Natsuo Kirino [10:45] The End of Men, Hanna Rosin
Jenn
[11:38] Finished! Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
[13:30] Spillover, David Quammen, October 1 2012
[15:15] Magic Strikes, Ilona Andrews
[16:25] Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson
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Intermission; Bill Elm & Woody Jackson - Triggernometry
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Stream of Consciousness
[19:10] Jay Chandrasekhar on This is Spinal Tap, NPR
[20:15] The Ascent of Rum Doodle, W.E. Bowman
[20:45] The Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, by Fanny Merkin a.k.a. Andrew Shaffer
[24:45] Bored of the Rings, The Harvard Lampoon
[25:45] Goodnight Keith Moon, Go the Fuck to Sleep, The Emily Dickinson Reader
[27:45] @kimkierkegaard
[28:20] How I Became a Famous Novelist, Steve Hely
[29:00] The NSFW Show’s fake iBook bestseller
[30:30] The Harvard Lampoon’s Twilight and Hunger Games parodies
[32:20] TechCrunch’s piece on Text from Dog
[33:30] Feminist Ryan Gosling: The Book, Danielle Henderson (from the blog)
[37:15] Hark! A Vagrant, Kate Beaton (originally a webcomic)
[39:10] Girl Genius (the steampunk webcomic Jenn couldn’t remember the name of)
[40:45] Achewood by Chris Onstad (started online)
[41:40] Emitown by Emi Lenox (journal comic)
[43:30] Listener question: How do we decide what to read next?
[49:20] The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
[49:25] Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
[54:05] Any galleys we’re excited about?
[54:10] Rebecca doesn’t have Cronin’s The Twelve yet!
[55:44] Josh is excited for Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove
[56:05] Books we wish we’d read?
[56:20] Josh hasn’t read Stoner
[56:30] Rebecca hasn’t read Moby-Dick or Infinite Jest
[57:00] Jenn hasn’t read Their Eyes Were Watching God
[58:00] AJ Jacobs on blurbing
[58:50] Moar high fantasy!
[59:50] NK Jemisin: The Killing Moon & The Shadowed Sun
[1:00:50] Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series (Kushiel’s Dart is the first one)
[1:02:15] Santa Olivia, Jacqueline Carey
[1:03:35] Read This!, contributors include Josh
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Outro; Nick Lowe - When I Write the Book
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