The Bookrageous Podcast

Bookrageous Episode 48; In Other Worlds 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 SingularityCo) 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 — Intermission; Mad About Cycles by Murat Esmer — 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 — Outro; Freedom at 21 by Jack White — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn, Rebecca Bookrageous Book Club Pick: She, by H. Rider Haggard (available at used bookstores and from Project Gutenberg) Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise

Bookrageous Episode 47; 2012 Favorites (Supersized Episode) 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) — Intermission; Mama Told Me from Big Boi feat. Little Dragon — 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! — Outro; Northern Lights by Allo Darlin — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn, Rebecca 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. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.

Bookrageous Episode 46; Comfort Food Books 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. — Intermission; Passion Pit - Constant Conversations (Chrome Canyon remix) — 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 — Outro; Lord Huron - The Stranger — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn, Rebecca 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. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise

The next book we'll discuss for the Bookrageous Book Club is Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds, which is out in paperback now. As always, if you order the book from  WORD in NY or Pages Pages in Australia, use the coupon code "Bookrageous" for a 10% discount. 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

Bookrageous Episode 45; Telegraph Avenue 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 — Intermission; Up in Here by Big Sam's Funky Nation — Book Club: Telegraph Avenue [34:00] The A.V. Club review [1:15:00] Among Others, Jo Walton — Outro; Breaking Free by Nerd Revolt — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn, Paul; Rebecca 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. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise

Bookrageous Episode 44; 2-Year Anniversary Special 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 — Intermission; Candy Bars -- Violets — 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 — Outro; Downtown Fiction -- Super Bass (cover) — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn, Rebecca Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon, 10% off from WORD in NY and Pages Pages in Australia for listeners! Just write BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments field. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.

Bookrageous Episode 43; How a Book is Made 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 — Intermission; BELLS≥ -- On the Arc — 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 — Outro; BELLS≥ -- Behold — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn, Rebecca, Gabrielle, Steve Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Telegraph Avenue (out September 11 2012), Michael Chabon, 10% off from WORD in NY and Pages Pages in Australia for listeners! Just write BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments field. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise

In our first non-Bookrageous Bookrageous episode (think of it as a parallel timeline, or Bookrageous-2), Jenn and Rebecca brought in our friend Stephanie to talk about Getting Things Done. The only show note you really need is this -a link to David Allen's Getting Things Done. Oh, and the intro/outro music is Where Is My Mind? by The Pixies

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 — Intermission; Bill Elm Woody Jackson  - Triggernometry — 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 — Outro; Nick Lowe - When I Write the Book — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn, Rebecca Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Telegraph Avenue (out September 11 2012), Michael Chabon, 10% off from WORD in NY and Pages Pages in Australia for listeners! Just write BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments field. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise.

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 — Intermission; I Don’t Know -- The Sheepdogs — 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 — Outro; Check -- The Rustic Overtones — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn, Rebecca Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Telegraph Avenue (out September 11 2012), Michael Chabon, 10% off from WORD and Pages Pages for listeners! Just write BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments field. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise

Bookrageous Episode 40; The Legend of Pradeep Mathew 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) — Intermission; Sri Lanka -- Colorpulse — 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 — Outro; Cricket -- The Kinks — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Jon, Jenn, Rebecca Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon, 10% off from WORD and Pages Pages for listeners! Just write BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments field. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise

Bookrageous Episode 39; BEA Postmortem 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) — Intermission; The Plank -- The Devil Makes Three — 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 — Outro; Bummer in the Summer -- Love — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn (Robots!), Rebecca Bookrageous Book Club Pick: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka, 10% off from WORD for listeners! Just write BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments field. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise

Bookrageous Episode 38; Desert Island Books 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 — Intermission; Rock N Roll is the Answer - Joey Ramone — 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 8 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 8 Clay, Michael Chabon [38:30] Josh: also The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier 8 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 8 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 — Outro; Message in a Bottle - The Vienna Boys Choir — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, Zazzle (for the Bookrageous 2011-2012 calendar), and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Jenn, Paul 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. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise

Bookrageous Episode 37; Listener Questions 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 — Intermission; Youth Without Youth -- Metric — 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 8 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 8 comics [37:25] Paul Montgomery: Short 8 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 8 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?) 8 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 — Outro; Summertime -- DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, Zazzle (for the Bookrageous 2011-2012 calendar), and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Rebecca, Jenn 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. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book

Bookrageous Episode 36; Bookish Origin Stories 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 — Intermission; Baby You Were There -- TV Girl — Bookish Origin Stories — Outro; Turn on the Sunshine -- The Suckers — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, Zazzle (for the Bookrageous 2011-2012 calendar), and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online: Josh, Rebecca, Jenn 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. Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or Bookrageous projects like our calendar. We promise