Intro Music; Summertime — DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:15] Jazz, Toni Morrison

[3:01] Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, Florence Williams

[5:45] Wait, nutcases??

[6:27] House of Holes, Nicholson Baker

[7:00] Getting Things Done, David Allen

[10:32] Better Book Titles: Write Shit Down

Josh

[11:00] Sorry Please Thank You, Charles Yu, July 24 2012

[13:22] Magic Hours, Tom Bissell

[15:16] The Gun, CJ Chivers

Jenn

[17:25] The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller and Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin

[20:39] The Killing Moon, NK Jemisin (The Shadowed Sun, June 1 2012)

[21:20] The Likeness, Tana French

[22:04] Aurorarama, Jean-Christophe Valtat (Luminous Chaos, October 2 2012)

Rebecca

[23:00] The Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschall

Jenn

[26:00] The Blind Giant, Nick Harkaway, May 15 2012

[27:09] Edie Investigates, Nick Harkaway

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Intermission; Youth Without Youth — Metric

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Listener Questions

[28:15] Jon Page: Book prizes? Too many, not enough, which ones, biases?

[30:31] We particularly heart The Morning News’ Tournament of Books

[33:20] The Orange Prize & gender in prizes

[34:18] Edmund: Revisiting books/rereadability?

[35:10] Rebecca rereads: The Sparrow, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Sula

[35:52] Jenn is rereading: Jacqueline Carey

[36:49] Josh rereads: graphic novels & comics

[37:25] Paul Montgomery: Short & sweet books vs. epic flails?

[37:56] Episode 25: Great Big Not Very Short Huge Epic Big Big Books

[38:05] We the Animals, Justin Torres

[39:06] Small Books with a Big Punch on Brews & Books

[39:27] How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu

[39:40] Clandestine in Chile, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[40:50] Paul Montgomery: Favorite one-hit wonder authors? e.g., Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird; authors we wish would write another book?

[41:28] Toby Barlow (Sharp Teeth)

[41:53] Steve Toltz (A Fraction of the Whole)

[44:19] Philipp Meyer (American Rust)

[44:41] Joss Arden: What do we wish we had mentioned on a previous episode but didn’t?

[46:57] Joss Arden: What do you wish someone had told you when you started your blogs?

[47:15] Never look at the stats! (Or at least don’t get caught up in them)

[49:15] Anyone can find it.

[50:23] Schedule, schedule, schedule.

[51:36] Stacy: How did you come together to do the podcast?

[51:50] Episodes 1 (Just What the Hell is Bookrageous?) & 24 (One Year Anniversary!)

[53:37] Twitter! And there was this calendar…

[53:55] And there was Books on the Nightstand…

[55:05] Kevin: What were the first galleys/free stuff you received because of your blog?

[55:20] Months and Seasons, Christopher Meeks

[56:09] Red, White, and Brew, Brian Yaeger; also, free beer!

[59:00] Rebecca: First book that a rep gave you?

[59:30] REPS ARE AWESOME.

[1:01:06] Anonymous: What are your thoughts on self-published books?

[1:01:10] We have many thoughts on this! (Not sum-up-able in show notes)

[1:04:27] Anonymous: DRM, agency pricing, lawsuits, etc.?

[1:04:44] Tor/Forge goes DRM free!

[1:06:40] $0.99 and up — Amazon and agency pricing

[1:11:00] Better than cheap? Free! Libraries and ebooks

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Outro; Summertime — DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka (out May 8 2012), 10% off from WORD for listeners! Just write BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments field.

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Intro Music; Turn on the Sunshine — The Suckers

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:20] The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg

[2:20] Unterzakhn, Leela Corman

[3:30] In the Woods, Tana French

[4:30] Railsea, China Mieville, May 15 2012

[6:00] The Dark Unwinding, Sharon Cameron, September 1 2012

Rebecca

[7:20] Tar Baby, Toni Morrison

[8:35] Drop Dead Healthy, AJ Jacobs

[10:10] Talulla Rising, Glen Duncan, June 26 2012

[12:18] The Lovers Dictionary, David Levithan

Josh

[12:55] Talulla Rising, Glen Duncan, June 26 2012

[14:15] The Ghost Soldiers, James Tate (shout-out to Porter Square Books)

[14:50] American Vampire, Scott Snyder

[15:50] CHEW, John Layman and Rob Guillory

[17:54] Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon, September 11 2012

[18:44] Monkey Mind, Daniel Smith, July 3 2012

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Intermission; Baby You Were There — TV Girl

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Bookish Origin Stories

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Outro; Turn on the Sunshine — The Suckers

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[notes: NSFW, trigger warning]

Intro Music; Swamp Thing by Sun Hotel

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:32] The Voice of the River, Melanie Rae Thon (recommended by Betsy Burton of The King’s English Bookshop)

[3:31] Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko

[5:06] Control Point, Myke Cole

[6:55] The Heroes, Joe Abercrombie

Josh

[8:04] The Girls from Planet 5, Richard Wilson (found at The Green Hand Bookshop)

[9:47] Mr. President, Ray Raphael

[10:55] The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Carter, July 2012

[11:45] Drop Dead Healthy, AJ Jacobs, April 10 2012

[12:50] Jacked, David Kushner, April 3 2012

Rebecca

[13:45] Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

[15:00] The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg

[16:30] Foreskin’s Lament, Shalom Auslander

[17:45] Heading Out to Wonderful, Robert Goolrick, June 1 2012

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Break Music; Florida Sunshine by As Fast As

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Swamplandia!

Spoiler-Free Section

[20:55] The story refresher; St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell

[22:40] The Tournament of Books’ take

[23:08] Warning: DARKNESS AHEAD

[25:00] Kiwi vs. Ava

[28:50] Magic realism vs. surrealism

[30:50] Swamp-goth!

[32:29] Rebecca needs more anger

[36:20] The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

Spoiler Zone

[38:15] So. Well. Written.

[43:11] So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman

[44:14] Once Upon a River, Bonnie Jo Campbell; Tender Morsels, Margo Flanagan

[47:00] Problems with the ending

[50:30] Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood

[54:10] Is it actually legit to “spoiler-warning” for this book?

Verdict: Karen Russell made us feel all the feelings.

Summer Bookrageous Book Club Pick: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka (out May 8 2012)

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Outro; Swamp Thing by Sun Hotel

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Intro Music; Ffunny Ffriends — Unknown Mortal Orchestra

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:01] Gods Without Men, Hari Kunzru, March 6 2012

[4:00] The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka, May 8 2012

[7:20] We digress about how hard it is to sell sports novels, even when they’re awesome

Rebecca

[8:50] Re-reading Toni Morrison in advance of Home (May 8 2012); The Bluest Eye

[11:35] Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway, March 20 2012

[12:25] Religion for Atheists, Alain De Botton, March 6 2012

[13:30] The 20% Doctrine, Ryan Tate, April 1 2012

[14:15] No Cheating, No Dying, Elizabeth Weil

Josh

[19:54] The Yard, Alex Grecian, May 29 2012

[21:50] The Truth of All Things, Kieran Shields, March 27 2012

[23:00] The Book Club Cookbook, Judy Gelman, Vicky Levy Krupp, March 1 2012

[25:00] The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata, Jim Fingal; final essay, What Happens There, The Believer, January 2010

[27:15] The Mark Inside, Amy Reading, March 6 2012

[28:20] Arcadia, Lauren Groff, March 1 2012

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Intermission; I’m So Proud That I’m a Cockney — Rick Hardy —

Funny Books

[31:00] How I Became a Famous Novelist, Steve Hely; Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy Kaling

[31:40] The Magicians, Lev Grossman

[33:51] Mr. Funny Pants, Michael Showalter

[34:41] Bossypants, Tina Fey

[35:38] David Sedaris

[36:00] Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson

[37:03] George Carlin

[37:45] Mary Roach

[38:28] The Princess Bride, William Goldman

[39:15] Stoner, John Williams

[40:25] Beat the Reaper, Josh Bazell

[40:35] To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis; Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome

[41:49] The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

[42:25] Kurt Vonnegut

[42:58] Skippy Dies, Paul Murray

[44:26] Christopher Moore (A Dirty Job)

[45:05] WTF with Marc Maron

[45:22] The 50 Funniest American Writers, Andy Borowitz

[46:00] Catch-22, Joseph Heller; Mark Twain

[46:45] Zone One, Colson Whitehead; Skippy Dies some more

[48:36] The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt

[49:44] Straight Man, Richard Russo

[50:45] The Year of Living Biblically, A. J. Jacobs

[51:57] The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway

[52:30] Why British writers and comedians are funnier (is it the accent?)

[53:50] Kids books!: Beware of the Frog, Blueberries for Sal, Make Way for Ducklings, Caps for Sale, I Want My Hat Back, Extra Yarn, Skippyjon Jones, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and other Mo Willems, Sandra Boynton

[56:50] Socksquatch, Frank Dormer

[58:19] Why Not Me, Al Franken

[1:00:02] Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame

[1:01:40] Jane Austen; Charles Dickens and Salman Rushdie

[1:02:41] China Mieville, particularly Kraken

[1:03:01] Jenn officially goes off the rails about all things British, including Cockney slang, with apologies to everyone ever, and in particular China Mieville. (She has not been able to corroborate that story about his name with anyone else, although she swears she didn’t make it up.)

[1:07:56] Blueprints of the Afterlife, Ryan Boudinot; How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu

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Outro; Ffunny Ffriends — Unknown Mortal Orchestra

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Find Us!

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Swamplandia!, Karen Russell, 10% off from WORD for listeners!

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We had some mic issues during this recording; sorry for the occasional fuzz!

Intro Music; Showbiz? Science? Who Cares? – Less than Jake

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:21] When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, Lawrence Block (Matthew Scudder Series #6), courtesy of the Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club

[2:21] Georgette Heyer already!, These Old Shades

[3:33] Bigger Than a Breadbox, Laurel Snyder

Rebecca

[4:45] Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Mindy Kaling

[7:16] Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Megan Mayhew Bergman, March 2012

[8:18] Dirty Minds, Kayt Sukel, February 2012

Josh

[9:21] 50 Funniest American Writers, Andy Borowitz; I Found This Funny, Judd Apatow

[11:21] The Mirage, Matt Ruff, February 2012

Mary Roach!!!!!!!!

[14:22] God, No!, Penn Jillette

[16:16] Rin Tin Tin, Susan Orlean

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Intermission; Dry — Lealea Jones
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Non-Fiction as Continuing Education

[20:00] Stiff, Mary Roach

[23:16] Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha

[23:28] A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman

[24:12] A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

[24:30] Sarah Vowell

[25:21] K Blows Top, Peter Carlson

[25:32] Last Call, Daniel Okrent

[26:12] Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku; Elegant Universe, Brian Greene

[29:17] The Poisoner’s Handbook, Deborah Blum

[30:00] The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

[31:12] The Fruit Hunters, Adam Gollner

[32:00] Annie Proulx

[33:05] How Mary Roach got into writing

[35:00] Books as social lubrication

[38:00] The Vikings, Robert Ferguson

[39:50] “Nonfiction so good it reads like fiction”: Y/N?

[41:30] The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

[42:58] Born to Run, Christopher McDougall

[45:40] The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe; Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

[47:36] Truth and “lies” in nonfiction; The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata and Jim Fingal, February 2012

[52:35] In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin

[56:15] Authors & Wish-Fulfillment (Packing for Mars)

[57:53] Floaters!

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Outro; Showbiz? Science? Who Cares? – Less than Jake

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Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Zone One, Colson Whitehead

Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club

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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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Find Us!

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Find Us Online: Jenn, Josh, Rebecca, Jenn, Adam Ross

Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Zone One, Colson Whitehead

Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club

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Bookrageous favorites out today, November 15th!

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The Whore of Akron, Scott Raab (from episode 28)

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Don’t forget to order your copy of Zone One by Colson Whitehead from Word Brooklyn for the first Bookrageous Book Club. Put BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments of your order for a 10% discount and stay tuned for the November discussion date.

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Shiny Objects, James A. Roberts

The Nerdist Way, Chris Hardwick

Brewed Awakening, Joshua Bernstein

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Don’t forget to order your copy of Zone One by Colson Whitehead from Word Brooklyn for the first Bookrageous Book Club. Put BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments of your order for a 10% discount and stay tuned for the November discussion date.

Intro Music; No Scrubs — Karmin

What We’re Reading

Josh

[1:28] Zone One, Colson Whitehead [this is our book club pick for October, put BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments of your order to get 10% off from WORD!]

[1:49] The Passage, Justin Cronin

[2:12] The Whore of Akron, Scott Raab, November 1 2011

Rebecca

[5:32] The Passage, Justin Cronin

Jenn

[9:00] Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway, March 20 2012 (The Gone-Away World)

[10:40] Bees are interesting, you guys!

[11:15] The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, Victor Pelevin

[12:56] Terrier, Tamora Pierce

[14:26] How to Save a Life, Sara Zarr

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Intermission; Low Light, Low Life — POS
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Fall Trade Shows 2011

[18:16] The Curious Garden, YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND!, Peter Brown

[19:08] Zone One, Colson Whitehead, and MacArthur Park (the Donna Summer version)

[20:45] Waking, Ron Rash (Serena)

[23:05] The Bookstore of the Future, recapped in Publishers Weekly

[24:00] I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck

[25:06] Contents May Have Shifted, February 1 2012, Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness)

[26:30] I’m With the Bears, various incl. Margaret Atwood

[27:30] Deep Economy, Bill McKibben

[28:25] Long Distance

[28:42] Sugarhouse, Matthew Batt, June 19 2012

[29:26] Cabin

[30:05] Wild, Cheryl Strayed, March 20 2012 (also recommended by Michele/readandbreathe!)

[30:55] A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

[32:16] The Invisible Ones, Stef Penney, January 5 2012

[33:25] The Mirage, Matt Ruff, February 1 2012

[36:00] Granta 116: Ten Years Later

[38:30] American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar, January 9 2012 (as recommended by Kalen/kalenski)

[40:15] Pure, Julianna Baggott, February 1 2012 (Which Brings Me to You)

[43:00] The Nerdist Way, Chris Hardwick, November 1 2011

[44:24] A Good American, Alex George, February 7 2012

[45:25] Emily St. John Mandel

[45:50] Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Megan Mayhew Bergman, March 6 2012

[47:00] The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata, Jim Fingal, February 1 2012

[47:49] About a Mountain, John D’Agata

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Outro; No Scrubs — Karmin

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Find Us!

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Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club

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Bookrageous favorites out today, October 18th. Get to readin’!

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The Mistress Contract, Anonymous

Zone One, Colson Whitehead

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Don’t forget to order your copy of Zone One by Colson Whitehead from Word Brooklyn for the first Bookrageous Book Club. Put BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments of your order for a 10% discount and stay tuned for the November discussion date.

Intro Music; Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:10] Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

[1:30] Love at First Bark, Julie Klam

[2:26] Shiny Objects, James A. Roberts, November 1 2011

[3:50] My Beautiful Genome, Lone Frank

Jenn

[5:35] The Sixth Gun: Cold Dead Fingers, Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt

[6:36] Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner

[7:34] Beautiful & Pointless, David Orr

[9:01] Arcadia, Lauren Groff, March 1 2012 (The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds)

[10:26] Out, Natsuo Kirino

Josh

[11:51] I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck

[13:27] The Truth of All Things, Kieran Shields, March 27 2012

[15:46] Pax Romana, Jonathan Hickman

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Intermission; Freedom — Rage Against the Machine
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Subversive Books

[20:23] Bored of the Rings, Henry Beard, Douglas C. Kenney

[21:44] Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut

[22:20] Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews

[23:20] The Giver, Lois Lowry

[24:37] Maus, Art Spiegelman

[25:40] A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

[27:06] Earth, David Brin

[28:54] Native Son, Richard Wright

[30:23] Sex is Not a Natural Act, Leonore Tiefer

[31:39] Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

[33:45] The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

[34:43] Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli

[35:11] Shame, Salman Rushdie

[36:10] Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

[37:37] The Usual Suspects

[38:15] The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway

[38:07] The Purity Myth, Jessica Valenti

[40:06] The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell; Freakonomics, Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner

[40:58] Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff

[42:51] Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

[43:57] Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson

[45:11] Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber

[45:44] Reality Hunger, David Shields

[46:33] The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

[46:47] Little Brother, Cory Doctorow

[47:14] The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

[47:55] His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

[48:05] Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross

[48:32] Disinformation series, Richard Metzger

[49:46] On Liberty, John Stuart Mill

[50:52] Ghost World, Dan Clowes, Adam Grano; V for Vendetta, Alan Moore, David Lloyd

[51:15] OccupyWallStreet Library on LibraryThing

[51:30] Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara, Jorge Castaneda

[52:40] The Magicians, Lev Grossman; The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan

[53:16] The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

[54:25] Primary Colors, Wag the Dog

[54:56] Hunter S. Thompson

[55:13] Matt Taibbi

[55:46] The House of Tomorrow, Peter Bognanni; Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb, George Rabasa

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Outro; Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana

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Intro Music; 1976 — RJD2

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:16] The Starboard Sea, Amber Dermont, March 2012

[4:02] The Revisionists, Thomas Mullen

[4:42] Sex at Dawn, Ryan & Jetha

Jeff

[6:47] I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck

[8:52] The Funny Man, John Warner

[10:35] How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, Stanley Fish

[12:47] Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong (ebook)

[13:50] Jeff’s Wonkometer Scale: Malcolm Gladwell - 2, Freakonomics - 5, Martin Heidegger - 10

Josh

[14:27] Habibi, Craig Thompson

[14:52] Ghost Lights, Lydia Millet, October 2011

[17:20] Cabin, Lou Ureneck (started as a blog for NY Times)

[18:02] All the Way Home, Building a Home with My Husband

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Intermission; Freedom — Jimi Hendrix
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Banned Books

[21:25] Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

[23:17] Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

[24:47] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

[31:08] Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs

[32:58] Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson

[33:36] Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut; Twenty Boy Summer, Sarah Ockler

[35:33] Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews

[40:00] Most Frequently Challenged Books list from the ALA, Banned Books Week website, stats on challenges at the ALA’s website

[44:20] The Color Purple, Alice Walker

[50:01] Maus, Art Spiegelman

[50:30] Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence

[52:02] that Amazon/pedophilia e-book thing

[55:45] Amazon & the LGBT deranking issue

[57:22] gay relationships in YA novels under attack

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Outro; 1976 — RJD2

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Intro Music; Bigger Blacker Ben - Samuel James

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[01:20] The Magician King, Lev Grossman

[03:24] Making an Exit, Sarah Murray, October 2011

[04:00] Curtains, Tom Jokonen

[04:24] The Undertaking, Thomas Lynch

[06:10] The Get-Away Car, Ann Patchett

[06:30] House of Holes, Nicholson Baker

Jenn

[07:30] Ragnarok, AS Byatt, February 2012

[07:45] The Children’s Book, Possession, Little Black Book of Stories, Elementals

[09:45] Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran

[10:55] Three Shadows, Cyril Pedrosa

[11:46] The Sisters Brothers, Patrick Dewitt

Josh

[13:06] Following Atticus, Tom Ryan

[14:02] Chubster, Martin Cizmar, January 2012

[14:41] 420 Characters, Lou Beach, December 2011

[15:23] Invisible Sun, David McGinnis Gill, March 2012

[15:55] Brewed Awakening, Joshua Bernstein, November 2011

[16:48] In Other Worlds, Margaret Atwood, October 2011

[18:10] Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing, Don George

[19:02] Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff

Intermission; Letters - Marching Band

Great Big Not Very Short Huge Epic Big Big Books

[24:34] The Instructions, Adam Levin; A Moment In the Sun, John Sayles

[26:40] Skippy Dies, Paul Murray

[27:01] 2666, Roberto Bolano

[28:27] A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling

[28:48] Arguably, Christopher Hitchens

[30:36] Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

[30:52] Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

[32:07] Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

[32:23] War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

[32:24] Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

[32:29] House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski

[35:52] In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust

[36:32] The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb

[38ish] Neil Gaiman: George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.

[39:02] Freedom, Jonathan Franzen; The Corrections

[39:59] The Passage, Justin Cronin

[42:01] The Stand, Steven King

[43:08] The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber

[44:47] Under the Skin; The Courage Consort

[46:06] Catch-22, Joseph Heller

[46:40] The Secret History, Dona Tartt

[47:20] Local, Bryan Wood, Ryan Kelley

[48:17] Essex County, Jeff Lemire

[48:28] Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes

[49:10] What It Is Like to Go to War

[49:58] Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

[50:56] The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee

[51:12] Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow

[51:30] True Compass, Edward M. Kennedy

[51:47] The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon

[52:25] Edmund Morris: Theodore Rex, Colonel Roosevelt, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

[53:26] Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, Linda Gordon

Outro; Bigger Blacker Ben - Samuel James

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Intro Music; Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner

What We’re Reading

Josh

[1:15] House of Holes, Nicholson Baker

[4:15] Mule, Tony D’Souza

[6:10] American Vampire, Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque

Rebecca

[7:00] The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta

[9:52] What It Is Like to Go to War, Karl Marlantes (also, Matterhorn)

[11:30] I’m Feeling Lucky, Douglas Edwards (also, The Filter Bubble)

Jenn

[13:40] The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson

[14:55] The Magician King, Lev Grossman (sequel to The Magicians)

[16:35] Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

[19:15] The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler

[20:24] The Sisters Brothers, Patrick Dewitt

Intermission; One Year Later - The Get Up Kids

[22:12] One year! and our evolving tastes.

[30:17] We are stats nerds

[36:22] Thanks a billion to our guest hosts Paul, Ali, Lacy, Christina, Ryan, Michele, Bethanne, Emily, Rachel, Sarah, Kit and Kevin.

[36:58] The Murmur Podcast

[39:35] Our book club! Zone One, Colson Whitehead

[41:30] Listener feedback

[47:00] Lightning round; books we didn’t love (Super Sad True Love Story, Room, Atonement, Catcher in the Rye), books we’re ashamed we didn’t read (Old Man and the Sea, The Great Gatsby, Joyce Carol Oates (We Were the Mulvaneys, Zombie), Murakami), books we wish we’d covered (Freedom)

[54:23] The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan

[56:00] Goals for Bookrageous, year two

Outro; Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner

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Intro Music; The Heart of the Sea - Flogging Molly

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:20] The Magicians, Lev Grossman

[2:10] Rumspringa, Tom Shachtman

[4:15] We Others, Steven Milhauser

[5:12] Granta 116: 10 Years Later

Jenn

[5:50] Ghost Story, Jim Butcher

[7:30] The Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin

[9:40] We the Animals, Justin Torres

Josh

[12:34] Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

[14:29] Scalped!, Jason Aaron

[15:50] Jenn interrupts re: Fables series

[16:40] Philosophy on Tap, Matt Lawrence

Intermission; Going Through Hell - The Streets

Un-Book Reading Rollcall

Byliner

LA Times’ Jacket Copy

The Atlantic

The New Yorker

The Millions

The Nervous Breakdown (Fathermucker)

The Morning News & The Tournament of Books

Freakonomics Blog

NOTCOT

Jenn’s webcomics bundle

Diesel Sweeties

Octopus Pie

Abominable Charles Christopher

Sabretooth Vampire

Freak Angels

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

Axe Cop

New York Magazine

Granta

Gluten-Free Girl

The Pioneer Woman (books)

The Hand-Made Kitchen

Pints and Panels

Horn! Reviews

Beer for Chicks (The Naked Pint)

Red White and Brew (book)

Feministing (The Purity Myth)

BoingBoing

TED

iFanboy

Gamasutra

The Escapist

WIRED

Sociological Images

Strange Maps

BuzzFeed

Flavorwire

gingerhaze.tumblr.com

Spock Is Not Impressed

Slaughterhouse 90210

Algonquin Books Blog
I Love Charts

Small Stories

Outro; The Heart of the Sea - Flogging Molly

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