Intro Music; She’s a Rebel by Green Day

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:26] Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace

[3:45] In Other Worlds, Margaret Atwood

[4:55] Stiff, Mary Roach

[5:45] The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Rebecca

[7:00] Red Moon, Benjamin Percy

[9:12] Inferno, Dan Brown

[10:45] Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams (When Women Were Birds)

Josh

[13:00] The Audacity of Hops, Tom Acitelli

[16:35] Fear Agent, Rick Remender

[18:20] The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick

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Intermission; Book Club by Arkells

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Book Club; She

[20:45] Shout-out to Project Gutenberg

[22:00] various editions: She (Penguin Classics edition); She (Modern Library, Margaret Atwood introduction)

[46:00] Beowulf on the Beach, Jack Murnighan

[47:15] She (1935)

[52:50] Next book club pick: Tampa, Alissa Nutting (July 1 2013)

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Outro Music; She’s a Rebel by Green Day

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Come to our party! May 29, 7 p.m., at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Tampa, Alissa Nutting (July 1 2013)

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Intro Music; Tumble and Fall by Elijah Ocean

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:30] Fingersmith, Sarah Waters

[3:15] The Last Girlfriend on Earth, Simon Rich

[5:05] The Siren, Tiffany Reisz

Josh

[7:35] Bookrageous Episode 46: Comfort Food Books

[8:10] Hawkeye: My Life As A Weapon, Matt Fraction, David Aja, Javier Pulido

[9:30] Fury Max: My War Gone By, Garth Ennis, Goran Parlov

[10:40] The Citizen’s Constitution: An Annotated Guide, Seth Lipsky

[11:20] Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House,

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Boris Kachka

[12:50] Saga, Vol. 1, Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples

Jenn

[14:20] The Dark is Rising: The Complete Sequence, Susan Cooper

[16:40] How to Be a Good Wife, Emma Chapman (Turn of Mind)

[18:15] The Ice-Shirt, William T. Vollmann

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Intermission; Rumble and Sway by Jamie N Commons

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Managing Our Digital Reading Lives

[21:00] Goodreads and Amazon

[23:25] LibraryThing

[35:05] Alternatives to Amazon: Powells.com; Better World Books

[46:30] Why Have Kids?, Jessica Valenti

[47:45] Traps, Mackenzie Bezos

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Outro Music; Tumble and Fall by Elijah Ocean

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: She, by H. Rider Haggard (available at used bookstores and from Project Gutenberg)

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Bookrageous Episode 53; National Poetry Month

Apologies for occasional fades in sound!

Intro Music; Poetry of the Deed by Frank Turner

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:25] I Await the Devil’s Coming, Mary MacLane

[4:40] In Cold Blood, Truman Capote; Wall Street Journal and Salon pieces

[6:20] The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata and Jim Fingal

[7:30] films: Capote; In Cold Blood

Rebecca

[9:25] All That Is, James Salter

[12:25] Drinking With Men, Rosie Schaap

[14:25] The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (recommended by Jeff)

[15:25] Sisterland, Curtis Sittenfeld, June 25 2013

Josh

[16:11] Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland, Josh Christie, May 7 2013 (congratulations, Josh!)

[17:35] The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories, Simon Rich

[21:30] The Odyssey, Robert Fitzgerald

[22:30] Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man, Thomas Foster

Lacy

[25:05] Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

[25:15] To Sell Is Human, Daniel Pink

[25:40] Number9Dream, David Mitchell

[26:15] The Gift, Lewis Hyde

[27:39] Baby Meets World, Nicholas Day

[29:50] Life After Life, Kate Atkinson

[31:10] Bluets, Maggie Nelson

[32:00] Destroyer and Preserver, Matthew Rohrer

[32:15] The Comfort of Things, Daniel Miller

[33:45] Footsteps, Richard Holmes

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Intermission; Boys Want to Be Her by Peaches

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Poetry

[36:15] Red Doc>, Anne Carson

[36:35] Poetry Foundation app

[38:45] Bluets, Maggie Nelson

[39:30] Wave Books

[32:40] From Rachel Rooney: good places to start with Poetry? the Poetry Foundation app; The Writer’s Almanac, Garrison Keillor

[48:50] Forklift, Ohio

[50:10] poetry on the Tumblr: Kat Howard, Leigh Stein, Saeed Jones; Bryan McGacklin

[51:50] Power Politics, Margaret Atwood

[52:55] The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

[53:25] Collected Poems, Chinua Achebe

[54:25] Maybe the Saddest Thing, Marcus Wicker

[56:10] Spectacle, Susan Steinberg

[56:30] Copper Canyon Press

[57:10] When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams

[1:01:55] It Becomes You, Dobby Gibson

[1:02:15] Elegy Owed, Bob Hicok

[1:03:25] Women’s Poetry, Daisy Fried

[1:03:55] Appetite, Aaron Smith

[1:05:30] Blowout, Denise Duhamel

[1:06:05] Come, Thief, Jane Hirshfield

[1:07:00] Pank Magazine app

1:14:20 Share your favorite poems/poets with us! Tag us on Twitter (#bookrageous); throw ‘em in the ask box on Tumblr.

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Outro Music; Poetry of the Deed by Frank Turner

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: She, by H. Rider Haggard (available at used bookstores and from Project Gutenberg)

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Intro Music; Lost Ends by Twinstar

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:15] Lawless, Jeff Salane

[2:50] Red Doc>, Anne Carson

[4:00] How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid

[6:20] The Human Division, John Scalzi (read-along on Tor.com)

Josh

[8:50] How to Love Wine, Eric Asimov

[13:00] Salt Sugar Fat, Michael Moss

[13:55] The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart

[14:30] One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Sarah MacLean; digression on romance novels

[23:35] Bet Me, Jennifer Crusie

Rebecca

[25:30] Tampa, Alissa Nutting

[32:30] The movie Jenn was trying to remember the name of is Notes on a Scandal

[36:20] Out, Natsuo Kirino (via Book Riot: Baddass Female Revenge Thrillers)

[38:00] Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed

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Intermission; I Still Think of You from Time to Time by Louville

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Adaptations

[43:20] The Princess Bride, William Goldman

[44:15] High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

[44:45] Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

[46:30] In Her Shoes, Jennifer Wiener

[47:00] Nothing Lasts Forever, Roderick Thorp (Die Hard)

[48:10] The Hours, Michael Cunningham

[48:50] Children of Men, P.D. James

[50:00] The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte (The Ninth Gate)

[51:15] A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (Simon Birch)

[52:20] To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

[53:00] Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

[54:35] Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

[56:30] Jenn begs you to put your opinions about the Cloud Atlas movie in our Tumblr ask box!

[56:55] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

[57:20] The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

[58:00] Austen adaptations

[58:35] Watchmen, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

[59:30] Sin City, Frank Miller

[1:01:20] The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

[1:03:00] Harry Potter, JK Rowling

[1:04:20] Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko

[1:05:05] Modern adaptations: Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Easy A, Great Expectations, O

[1:07:50] A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin

[1:10:35] Catch-22, Joseph Heller

[1:10:45] Ursula Le Guin

[1:11:15] The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien; The Hobbit

[1:15:10] The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan

[1:15:40] Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway

[1:15:55] The Magicians, Lev Grossman

[1:17:00] Video game adaptations: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.; Metro 2033; The Witcher; The New Yorker interview with Tom

Bissell; Literature’s Greatest Video Games

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Outro; Lost Ends by Twinstar

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: She, by H. Rider Haggard (available at used bookstores and from Project Gutenberg)

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Intro Music; Do Right by Jimmie’s Chicken Shack

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:35] The Engagements, J. Courtney Sullivan, June 11 2013

[6:25] The House at Belle Fontaine and Other Stories, Lily Tuck, May 1 2013

[7:15] One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Sarah MacLean (A Rogue by Any Other Name)

[10:25] Burning the Days, James Salter

Jenn

[11:05] Grave Mercy, Robin LaFevers (Dark Triumph, April 2 2013)

[13:35] The Gods of Gotham, Lyndsay Faye (on Tumblr)

[15:04] The Towers of Midnight, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (for Book Riot series What the WoT)

Josh

[16:10] Who Censored Roger Rabbit, Gary Wolf

[18:10] “The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden,” Phil Bronstein

[19:10] Wool, Hugh Howey

[20:25] Tampa, Alissa Nutting, July 1 2013

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Intermission; Listen Up by Gossip

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Books and Memory

[26:45] The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

[27:35] The Life of Pi, Yann Martel

[28:21] The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

[29:05] The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss

[30:00] Caps for Sale, Esphyr Slobodkina

[30:33] Hop on Pop, Dr. Seuss

[31:30] Home for a Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown

[32:33] The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

[36:15] James Howe

[36:50] Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

[43:00] Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, Bill Clegg

[44:50] Everything You Know is Wrong, Russ Kick

[46:00] The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler

[47:15] Stiff, Mary Roach

[49:00] The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson

[49:30] Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke

[50:43] Candyfreak, Steve Almond

[52:40] The Godfather, Mario Puzo

[55:20] Scenes from an Impending Marriage, Adrian Tomine

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[58:30] Enna Burning, Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

[59:30] The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

[1:00:10] Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis

[1:00:50] The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

[1:01:50] The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien

[1:03:55] Eliot’s Banana, Heather Swain

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Outro; Do Right by Jimmie’s Chicken Shack

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: She, by H. Rider Haggard (available at used bookstores and from Project Gutenberg)

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Intro Music; 21st Century Digital Boy by Bad Religion

What We’re Reading

Josh

[1:20] Gulp, Mary Roach, April 2 2013

[2:55] An Armenian Sketchbook, Vassily Grossman

[4:00] Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, Anna Anthropy

Rebecca

[7:05] Ivyland, Miles Klee

[8:05] I Can Barely Take Care of Myself, Jen Kirkman, April 16 2013

[9:05] When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams (courtesy of Gabrielle)

Jenn

[11:55] Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams

[13:35] American Childhood, Annie Dillard

[15:10] What Are You Doing Here?, Laina Dawes, Bazillion Points (rec’d by Toby Carroll); Dawes interviewed on NPR

[18:20] Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell

[20:35] His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

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Intermission; Hotline by Jasper Byrne

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E-Books Revisited

Prior conversation: Episode 17: e-reading, April 2011

[27:10] Update: Kobo app does not work on Nook tablet, sorry Rebecca!

[27:35] Note on shopping Kobo via indies: Make sure you’re creating your account through either a dedicated link from the bookstore or through their website!

[34:30] The Largely Irrational Reasons I’m Not Ready to Go All-Digital, Amanda Nelson (Book Riot)

[41:35] Dave Eggers on ebooks

[46:05] Perdido Street Station, China Mieville

[48:50] Waltzing the Cat, Pam Houston

[51:15] TURRIBLE digital formatting (OR Books)

[55:50] Down with DRM!

[59:55] The Selected Works of TS Spivet, Reif Larsen (app)

[1:00:30] How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman (app)

[1:01:10] The Elements, Theodore Gray (app)

[1:02:30] Inkling; Tasting Beer, Randy Mosher (app)

[1:03:55] Literary reviews publishing ebooks: Electric Literature; The Millions; Book Riot

[1:09:20] Further proof that e-books do, in fact, cost money to produce, MobyLives (Melville House)

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Outro; 21st Century Digital Boy by Bad Religion

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: She, by H. Rider Haggard (available at used bookstores and from Project Gutenberg)

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Intro Music; I Could Write a Book by Harry Connick Jr

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:25] The Vanishers, Heidi Julavits

[3:25] Daring Greatly, Brené Brown; TED talk on vulnerability

[4:15] Nana Vol. 1, Ai Yazawa

[5:30] One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Sarah MacLean

Michelle

[6:45] The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy

[7:10] The Dog Stars, Peter Heller

[8:25] Magnificence, Lydia Millett

[8:45] The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka

Sarah

[12:15] Hell or High Water, Joy Castro

[13:40] Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple

Rebecca

[16:15] Gulp, Mary Roach, April 1 2013

[18:10] Dear Life, Alice Munro

[19:35] Elders, Ryan Mcilvain, March 5 2013

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Intermission; The Editor by Mobley

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How a Book is Made, Pt 2 (Agents and Editors)

Michelle Brower, Folio Lit
Sarah Knight, Simon and Schuster

[28:45] The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, Michele Young-Stone

[40:45] Nightshifted, Cassie Alexander

[41:05] The House Girl, Tara Conklin, February 1 2013

[43:30] David Maraniss, Chris Matthews

[44:40] The House Girl, Tara Conklin (on the Indie Next list!)

[45:40] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

[46:21] Sharp Objects, Dark Places

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Outro; I Could Write a Book by Harry Connick Jr

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: She, by H. Rider Haggard (available at used bookstores and from Project Gutenberg)

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Intro Music; Freedom at 21 by Jack White

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:10] Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

[2:30] The Secret History, Donna Tartt

[4:20] Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ (from Singularity&Co)

Rebecca

[6:00] Where’d You Go Bernadette, Maria Semple

[8:25] Wifey, Judy Blume

[11:40] There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Night, Laura van den Berg (What the World Will Look Like…)

[15:00] Digression: Rebecca and short stories

[16:00] Books on the Nightstand’s Year of the Short Story

[17:05] Saints and Sinners, Edna O’Brien

Josh

[19:00] Cyclepedia, Michael Embacher, Paul Smith

[20:25] Scoundrels, Timothy Zahn (for Fuzzy Typewriter discussion)

[21:15] Traffic, Tom Vanderbilt

[23:05] Readlists

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Intermission; Mad About Cycles by Murat Esmer

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In Other Worlds

Discussion: In Other Worlds, Margaret Atwood

[32:45] Jacqueline Carey

Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood

[42:00] Jenn’s quibble; She; Woman on the Edge of Time; News from Nowhere; Consider Her Ways; 1984

[48:50] Open invitation to Margaret Atwood to join the show

[58:15] Next book group pick: She, H. Rider Haggard

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Outro; Freedom at 21 by Jack White

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: She, by H. Rider Haggard (available at used bookstores and from Project Gutenberg)

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Intro Music; Northern Lights by Allo Darlin

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:10] Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere, Andre Aciman

[3:00] Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, various

[5:10] The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer, April 9 2013

[6:30] Suttree, Cormac McCarthy

Josh

[7:10] Desperate Sons, Les Standiford

[9:05] from recommendations on iFanboy, Graphic Canon: Vol. 2, Russ Kick (Vol. 3 coming in March 2013)

[11:15] The Rime of the Modern Mariner, Nick Hayes

[13:00] Jenn interjects: Down in the Hole, Joy Delyria and Sean Michael Robinson (recommended by Emily)

Jenn

[14:15] The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan (Tender Morsels)

[16:50] The Rise of Ransom City, Felix Gilman (The Half-Made World; also try Sixth Gun)

[18:15] Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (Moby-Dick Marathon NYC); Moby Dick Big Read (h/t to Holly)

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Intermission; Mama Told Me from Big Boi feat. Little Dragon

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2012 Favorites

[21:50] Rebecca: Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Megan Mayhew Bergman

[23:30] Josh: Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed

[25:00] Jenn: Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway

[26:55] Rebecca: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain

[28:50] Josh: Mortality, Christopher Hitchens

[30:44] Jenn: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka (Episode 40)

[32:40] Rebecca: Quiet, Susan Cain

[37:25] Josh: Penguin’s Civic Classics series

[39:50] Jenn: Railsea, China Mieville

[42:35] Rebecca: Ask the Passengers, A.S. King

[44:55] Josh: Drama, Raina Telgemeier

[46:25] Jenn: This Is Not My Hat, Jon Klassen (Buy prints of his work!)

[49:10] Rebecca: Contents May Have Shifted, Pam Houston

[51:20] Josh: Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon

[53:25] Jenn: The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata and Jim Fingal

[55:20] Rebecca: The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers

[58:50] Josh: This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz

[1:00:45] Jenn: Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore

[1:03:00] Rebecca: Diving Belles, Lucy Wood

[1:06:30] Josh: The World Atlas of Beer, Tim Webb and Stephen Beaumont

[1:08:20] Jenn: The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

[1:10:20] Rebecca: Arcadia, Lauren Groff

[1:13:10] Josh: Modernist Cuisine at Home, Nathan Myhrvold and Maxime Bilet

[1:16:10] Jenn: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland, Catherynne Valente (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland)

[1:17:40] Rebecca: Home, Toni Morrison

[1:20:10] Josh: The Rime of the Modern Mariner, Nick Hayes

[1:22:35] Jenn: The Killing Moon, NK Jemisin

[1:25:25] Rebecca: Breasts, Florence Williams (check out the trailer); cheater shout-out to The Guide to Getting It On

[1:28:45] Josh: Several Short Sentences About Writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg

[1:30:30] Jenn: Safe as Houses, Marie-Helene Bertino

[1:32:45] The Adam Ross Award for 2012 goes to: Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, originally recommended by Adam Ross! (Runners up: Angelmaker, Arcadia, The Lifespan of a Fact, Drop Dead Healthy, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, Telegraph Avenue)

[1:37:00] Book group: In Other Worlds, Margaret Atwood, discussion next show!

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Outro; Northern Lights by Allo Darlin

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: In Other Worlds, Margaret Atwood, 10% off from WORD in NY and Pages & Pages in Australia for listeners! Just write BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments field.

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Intro Music; Lord Huron - The Stranger

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:20] Woke Up Lonely, Fiona Maazel, April 2 2013

[4:03] Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan

[6:50] St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell

[8:40] Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell, February 12 2013

Jenn

[9:40] The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Teddy Wayne, February 5 2013 (Kapitoil)

[12:05] Old Man’s War series, John Scalzi (Old Man’s War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, Zoe’s Tale)

[12:40] Cold Days, Jim Butcher

Josh

[13:55] Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley, Robert Sheckley

[14:50] Amsterdam Stories, Nescio

[15:50] Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell, February 12 2013

[17:45] The Dinner, Herman Koch, February 12 2013

[19:10] Guide to Getting It On, Paul Joannides, Toni Johnson, Daerick Gross, Sr.

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Intermission; Passion Pit - Constant Conversations (Chrome Canyon remix)

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Comfort Food Books

[26:55] The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie; The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick

[31:30] Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan

[34:05] A.S. King

[36:00] Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby

[36:40] Reign of Fire

[38:25] Homeland; Justified; The Wire

[39:15] Frank Miller

[39:40] Anchorman, Star Wars, Back to the Future

[41:00] The Princess Bride; When Harry Met Sally; Elf

[41:10] P.G. Wodehouse; Agatha Christie

[43:00] John Irving

[43:15] Nicholas Sparks

[44:00] Mary Roach

[45:10] Nora Roberts

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Outro; Lord Huron - The Stranger

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We try and do these discussions quartely, which means we’ll be discussing In Other Worlds at either the end of December or the beginning of January.

Intro Music; Breaking Free by Nerd Revolt

What We’re Reading

Paul

[1:14] Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury

[3:40] People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry (recommended by Megan Abbott, Dare Me)

[6:05] Dope, Sara Gran

[7:15] Jenn interjects: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead; Come Closer

[8:40] Rebecca interjects: The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

Jenn

[9:30] Ask the Passengers, A.S. King, October 23 2012

[11:15] Josh interjects: Books that make us cry? I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck

[11:40] Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver, November 6 2012

Rebecca

[13:15] Daring Greatly, Brene Brown; article on Fast Company; TED talk

[16:40] Lucky Peach Issue 4

[17:45] Consider the Fork, Bee Wilson

[18:09] Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

[18:30] Josh interjects: Grantland

Josh

[19:30] Beer Lover’s New England, Norman Miller

[20:40] The Good Beer Guide to New England, Andy Crouch

[21:20] The Great State of Maine Beer Book, Will Anderson

[22:00] The Best American Travel Writing 2012; The Best American Sports Writing 2012; The Best American Non-Required Reading 2012

[25:10] Telegraph Avenue on audio

[25:45] Several Short Sentences About Writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg

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Intermission; Up in Here by Big Sam’s Funky Nation

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Book Club: Telegraph Avenue

[34:00] The A.V. Club review

[1:15:00] Among Others, Jo Walton

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Outro; Breaking Free by Nerd Revolt

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Intro Music; Downtown Fiction — Super Bass (cover)

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[2:40] The Devil in Silver and Lucretia and the Kroons, Victor LaValle (full review on Tor.com)

[4:15] The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness

[6:25] The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, Maurice Dekobra (The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy)

Rebecca

[10:30] The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers (recommended by Jon Page)

[12:40] Ask the Passengers, A.S. King, October 23 2012

[14:50] The Twelve, Justin Cronin, October 16 2012

Josh

[17:05] Longreads

[18:10] The Amazing Spider-man: Spider Island

[19:20] The World Atlas of Beer, Tim Webb and Stephen Beaumont, October 1 2012

[21:00] Fakes, ed. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, October 1 2012

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Intermission; Candy Bars — Violets

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2-Year Anniversary: Looking Back

[26:20] Author guests in the past year: Mary Roach, Colson Whitehead, and Adam Ross

[27:00] Books all three of us have read in the last year:

- Book Club picks: Swamplandia!, Zone One, The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

- Others: Gone Girl; The Passage; The Lifespan of a Fact; The Night Circus; The Mark Inside

[28:10] Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross

[30:44] Charlatan, Pope Brock (ebook)

[31:55] Kushiel’s Dart; I Married You for Happiness; Arcadia; Skippy Dies

[32:33] Favorite episodes: Desert Island Books (#38); The Great Big Not Very Short Epic Huge Big Big Books (#25); Non-Fiction with Mary Roach (#30); The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (#40); Swamplandia! (#35); Mockingjay (#4); Poetryrageous (#12)

[35:05] Dispatch from the Future, Leigh Stein (The Fallback Plan)

[36:00] Ghost Soldiers, James Tate; Broetry, Brian Mcgackin

[36:30] Genre fiction, Literary Fiction, and Space Camp (#3); The Magicians and The Magician King

[38:20] Essays and Anthologies (#41)

[42:10] Shout-out to our pod-parents: Ann and Michael at Books on the Nightstand

[45:50] Obama is reading: Home, Toni Morrison; Salvage the Bones, Jessmyn Ward; The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes

[46:45] Next book club pick: Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon

[47:50] The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides

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Outro; Downtown Fiction — Super Bass (cover)

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Intro Music; BELLS≥ — Behold

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:15] Every Day, David Levithan

[2:45] The Apothecary, Maile Meloy

[3:35] Safe as Houses, Marie-Helene Bertino, October 1 2012 (Recommended Reading)

Josh

[4:15] Mortality, Christopher Hitchens

[5:30] Penguin Civic Classics series

Rebecca

[7:45] I Married You For Happiness, Lily Tuck

[9:00] Dare Me, Megan Abbott

[10:35] Kushiel’s Dart, Jacqueline Carey

[11:10] This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz

[11:45] More Baths Less Talking, Nick Hornby

[12:15] Why Have Kids, Jessica Valenti

Gabrielle

[12:45] More Baths Less Talking, Nick Hornby

[13:10] Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie (The Child Thief, Brom)

[14:00] He Died With His Eyes Open, Derek Raymond

[15:15] A Breath of Life, Clarice Lispector

Steve

[16:20] Drift, Rachel Maddow

[17:40] Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson

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Intermission; BELLS≥ — On the Arc

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How a Book is Made

[36:45] Steve has worked on: Glen Duncan; Chuck Palahniuk; The Night Circus

[39:45] Gabrielle has worked on: Jonathan Franzen; Jeffrey Eugenides; Siri Hustvedt’s Living, Thinking, Looking; BIG IDEAS//small books; Garret Keizer’s Privacy; The Paris Review’s Object Lessons (October 2 2012); Alain de Botton’s How to Think More About Sex (December 24 2012); Philippa Perry’s How to Stay Sane (December 24 2012)

[48:00] Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner

[48:20] Office Girl, Joe Meno

[49:15] First Second Books

[50:55] Angry Robot

[51:15] When She Woke, Hillary Jordan

[57:15] Publishing job listings: Mediabistro/Galleycat; Publishers Lunch; Publishers Weekly

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Outro; BELLS≥ — Behold

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Oh, and the intro/outro music is Where Is My Mind? by The Pixies.

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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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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Intro Music; Cricket — The Kinks

What We’re Reading

Jon

[1:17] The Twelve, Justin Cronin, October 16 2012

[1:49] The Cutting Season, Attica Locke, September 1 2012

[2:35] Secrets of the Tides, Hannah Richell

Rebecca

[3:30] The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka

[4:10] The End of the World As We Know It, Robert Goolrick

[5:15] The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

[5:30] Faitheist, Chris Stedman, November 6 2012

Jenn

[6:45] Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

[7:30] InfiniteSummer.org

[8:35] Old Man’s War, John Scalzi

[9:44] Dial H, China Mieville

[10:20] The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker (review on Tor.com)

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Intermission; Sri Lanka — Colorpulse

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The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

[12:20] “Chinaman”

[13:30] Cricket!

[15:00] The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach

[16:15] Kudos to Bookavore

[16:45] “Reading a writer writing about a writer who’s writing about writing”

[21:30] Peter Jackson’s Forgotten Silver

[30:07] The Cage, Gordon Weiss, September 1 2012

[31:30] Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanada Ngozi Adichie

[32:20] Graywolf Press

[35:00] Commonwealth Book Prize

[36:15] What we’d recommend next: The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach; One Day I Will Write About This Place, Binyavanga Wainaina (paperback coming in September!); The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway

[41:20] HEREAFTER BE SPOILERS, BEWARE

[46:20] The Princess Bride, William Goldman

[50:15] How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu

[50:50] On obsessions & book therapy

[55:40] Our next book group pick is Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon

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Outro; Cricket — The Kinks

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Intro Music; Bummer in the Summer — Love

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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Intro Music; Message in a Bottle - The Vienna Boys Choir

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:30] Paul takes Jenn to task over advance reading/recommending

[2:15] The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne Valente (The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, October 2 2012)

[3:40] Zombie, J.R. Angelella, June 5 2012

[4:35] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, June 5 2012

[5:10] Let Me Clear My Throat, Elena Passarello, October 1 2012

[6:13] What is the Wilhelm Scream, you ask? We will tell you. In great (specifically Star Wars) detail.

[8:48] Elena at the Stella Screaming Contest

Josh

[9:15] Why Does Batman Carry Shark Repellent?, Brian Cronin

[10:20] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Sharp Objects and Dark Places)

[13:25] Blacksad: A Silent Hell, Juan Diaz Canales, Juanjo Diaz Guarnido, July 1 2012 (Blacksad)

Paul

[18:05] Alpha, Greg Rucka (Gotham Central)

[22:00] Prophet, written by Brandon Graham

[25:15] The Manhattan Projects, written by Jonathan Hickman; see also iFanboy’s Pick of the Week #335

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Intermission; Rock N Roll is the Answer - Joey Ramone

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Desert Island Books

[27:55] Thanks to @tfheller for the idea!

[28:28] What exactly was the assignment? Because Josh has two lists, and Paul has a spreadsheet.

[30:00] Josh’s survival-nerd list: a forager’s cookbook; Shelters, Shacks & Shanties; SAS Survival Guide; Fit By Nature; a boat-building book and/or Fifty Shades of Grey

[34:00] Josh: 50 Funniest American Writers, Andy Borowitz

[35:40] Jenn: The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway

[37:25] Paul: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

[38:30] Josh: also The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

[38:58] Jenn: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

[41:00] Paul: Thor Omnibus, Walt Simonson (runners-up: Bone, by Jeff Smith; All Star Superman, Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely)

[43:48] Josh: Watchmen, Alan Moore

[45:58] Jenn: A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman

[47:08] Paul: American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub (runners-up: The Best of Roald Dahl; The Stories of Ray Bradbury; The Best of Wodehouse)

[51:01] Josh: Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy, Steven Cahn

[52:56] Jenn: The Oxford Shakespeare

[54:28] Paul: Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare (runners-up: Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Neil Simon; The West Wing Teleplay, Aaron Sorkin)

[58:18] Josh: Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

[1:01:45] Jenn: Tuesday, David Wiesner

[1:03:05] Paul: a pack of yellow legal pads

[1:09:13] If you could only have one book off the list, what would it be? Josh: 50 Funniest American Writers; Paul: American Fantastic Tales; Jenn: The Oxford Shakespeare

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Outro; Message in a Bottle - The Vienna Boys Choir

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