The Bookrageous Podcast

Bookrageous Episode 35; Swamplandia! [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 — Break Music; Florida Sunshine by As Fast As — 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) — Outro; Swamp Thing by Sun Hotel — 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

Bookrageous Episode 34; Funny Books 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 — 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 — Outro; Ffunny Ffriends -- Unknown Mortal Orchestra — 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: Swamplandia!, Karen Russell, 10% off from WORD for listeners! 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 33; Book Tourism Intro Music; Needing/Getting, OK Go What We’re Reading Josh [1:15] Enemies and Allies, Kevin Anderson [2:45] Raylan, Elmore Leonard [4:16] Blueprints of the Afterlife, Ryan Boudinot Rebecca [6:43] Contents May Have Shifted, Pam Houston (Hunger Mountain article) [9:05] Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman, February 14 2012 [9:45] Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson, April 17 2012 Jenn [10:17] Why We Broke Up, Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman [11:33] Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (REAMDE) [13:30] Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carre Gabrielle [13:54] Fun Home, Alison Bechdel [16:58] Second Reading, Jonathan Yardley [18:36] The Speed Chronicle, edited by Joseph Mattson David [19:38] Drifting House, Krys Lee [20:21] Vicky Swanky is a Beauty, Diane Williams [21:02] Stay Awake, Dan Chaon [21:55] Zona, Geoff Dyer — Intermission; Destroyer of Worlds, The Sugarettes (free download on Largehearted Boy) — Book Tourism [23:49] Book Boroughing [26:15] Electric Lit [31:15] Minnesota Reads / I Will Dare [33:44] Rainy Day Books [34:27] Tattered Cover [34:35] McNally Jackson’s Twitter [34:48] LA Times Festival of Books (hi, Emily!) [35:34] National Book Festival [36:57] Decatur Book Festival [37:41] Brooklyn Book Festival [38:40] Southern Festival of Books [39:43] Virginia Festival of the Book [40:39] New York Comic Con [43:55] Politics and Prose; McNally Jackson [48:10] The Rumpus [48:27] Miami Book Fair [50:01] Marc Maron on Hemingway’s house [52:53] Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Jon Berendt [53:25] Sin in the Second City, Karen Abbott [54:10] Lost City of Z, David Gran [54:24] This Life Is in Your Hands, Melissa Coleman [54:33] Following Atticus, Tom Ryan [54:55] Jim Carroll [55:45] The Dewey Decimal System, Nathan Larson [57:25] Aurorarama, Jean-Christophe Valtat [57:40] Brakebills South (The Magicians, Lev Grossman) [58:10] American Gods, Neil Gaiman [58:23] Kraken and The City 8 The City, China Mieville — Outro; Needing/Getting, OK Go — 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, Gabrielle, David Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Swamplandia!, Karen Russell 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 32; 2011 Faves 8 a Look Into 2012 Intro Music; Darkness - Leonard Cohen What We’re Reading Rebecca [1:33] In One Person, Jon Irving, May 2012 [4:27] shout-out to Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston, SC; Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl [6:30] Lucky Peach; Blood, Bones 8 Butter; Anthony Bourdain Jenn [7:26] Wild Thing, Josh Bazell, February 2012 [8:21] Among Others, Jo Walton [10:00] John Lanchester: The Debt to Pleasure; Capital, June 2012 [11:18] Kristin Cashore: Graceling, Fire; Tamora Pierce (anything and everything) Josh [12:35] The Demi-Monde: Winter, Rod Rees; Reamde, Ready Player One [16:56] The Operators, Michael Hastings [18:45] Batgirl, Bryan Q Miller — Intermission; Jeeper Creeper - Sinkane — 2011 Faves [22:58] Unveiled, Courtney Milan (sequel: Unclaimed) [24:29] Moondogs, Alexander Yates [26:24] Josh kicks off the cheating: Sex on the Moon, Ben Mezrich; In the Garden of the Beasts, Erik Larsen; The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern; The Magician King, Lev Grossman [28:08] Embassytown, China Mieville (The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell); Dial H! [30:12] The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson [33:13] The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser [35:40] Revolution, Deb Olen Unfirth [37:30] What It is Like to Go to War, Karl Marlantes [39:25] I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck [42:00] Happy engagement, Josh! [42:40] Once Upon a River, Bonnie Jo Campbell; The Curfew, Jesse Ball [45:30] Turn of Mind, Alice LaPlante; The Illumination, Kevin Brockmeier; honorable mentions: Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb, State of Wonder, Other People We Married, Ladies and Gentleman [47:52] honorable mentions: Ladies and Gentleman, The Sisters Brothers, This Life is In Your Hands; The Whore of Akron, Scott Raab (also recommended by Patrick Brown) [51:01] And the Adam Ross Award goes to … Glen Duncan and The Last Werewolf! A Look Into 2012 [53:45] Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore, May 2012 [54:20] American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar [55:45] Authors doing new stuff! China Mieville 8 Dial H; Charles Yu, Sorry Please Thank You, July 2012; Christopher Hitchens, Mortality, October 2012; Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away, April 2012 [56:39] Arcadia, Lauren Groff, March 2012 [57:32] Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, Emma Straub, 2012 [58:06] The Mark Inside, Amy Reading, March 2012 [59:19] The Lifespan of a Fact, John D’Agata and Jim Finlay, February 2012 [1:00:16] Home, Toni Morrison, May 2012 [1:00:53] Josh predicts it will be kind of a shitty year for Amazon [1:03:11] Lost Everything, Brian Francis Slattery, April 2012; Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway, March 2012 [1:04:37] Heading Out to Wonderful, Robert Goolrick, June 2012; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain, May 2012 — Outro; Darkness - Leonard Cohen — 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: Swamplandia!, Karen Russell 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 31; Zone One Book Club Intro Music; Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton What We’re Reading Josh [1:16] Wild, Cheryl Strayed, March 2012 (also recommended by Michele) [4:33] One Soul, Ray Fawkes Rebecca [6:43] The Nobodies Album, Carolyn Parkhurst (also recommended by Ann Kingman) [9:46] The Lola Quartet, Emily St. John Mandel, May 2012 [10:36] Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, Geoff Dyer [12:05] The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon Jenn [15:10] Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Megan Mayhew Bergman, March 2012 [15:50] Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (as recommended by Christine) [17:43] Sylvester, Georgette Heyer [19:41] Cinder, Marissa Meyer (out now!) — Intermission; My Girlfriend’s Dead - The Vandals — Zone One: The Discussion [22:24] Jon from Pages 8 Pages weighs in on his first zombie novel experience. [23:43] How many thumbs was that again? [25:00] Who is this Colson Whitehead anyway? [25:25] Lit 8 genre: The Last Werewolf, The Magician King, Michael Chabon [27:50] We are the monsters!!! (mandatory Walking Dead reference) [31:15] The Passage, Justin Cronin [33:50] We decide that “mid-apocalyptic” is a thing. [35:10] World War Z, Max Brooks [46:29] Margaret Atwood [47:30] We speculate about critical reviews vs. ratings. [49:00] A Modest Proposal [51:30] The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta — Intermission 2; Zombie - The Cranberries — Zone One with Colson Whitehead (Spoiler Alert!) [53:00] The author himself answers our questions! Granta 117: Horror — Outro; Re: Your Brains, Jonathan Coulton — 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, Colson Whitehead Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Swamplandia!, Karen Russell 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 Holiday Special [1:40] A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens [2:48] A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas [5:08] Christmas comics from Marvel and DC [5:48] Conway Twitty’s A Twismas Story [7:25] Alice’s Restaurant (Thanksgiving) [8:50] NYT Christmas bestsellers [9:35] Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris [11:00] Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, JK Rowling [11:20] The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (maybe?) [12:00] The Book Thief, Markus Zusak [12:10] Needs more Christmas! Mr. Peanut, Skippy Dies, Matterhorn, The Lord of the Rings [13:11] White Christmas, Jody Rosen [14:20] The Babysitter’s Club, Nancy Drew [15:30] The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne [18:45] Skippy Jon Jones holiday book, please! [20:10] Every Man Should Know series; All My Friends are Dead, Awkward Family Photos, Sexy Book of Sexy Sex, Crap at My Parents’ House [22:45] Josh’s recommendations round-up [24:50] Books on the Nightstand Holiday Shopping Guide Call-Ins! [25:20] Jenn: Connie Willis (To Say Nothing of the Dog), Miracle and Other Christmas Stories [27:00] Jon Page: backlist books [28:00] Nick Harkaway: Switzerland, Johnny Cash, and Conan Doyle’s pirate stories (!!) 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 Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Zone One, Colson Whitehead Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club 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 30; Non-Fiction with Mary Roach 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 — Intermission; Dry -- Lealea Jones — Non-Fiction as Continuing Education [20:00] Stiff, Mary Roach [23:16] Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan 8 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 8 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 8 Wish-Fulfillment (Packing for Mars) [57:53] Floaters! — Outro; Showbiz? Science? Who Cares? -- Less than Jake — 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, Mary Roach Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Zone One, Colson Whitehead Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club 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 29; Short Stories 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 — Intermission; Morning Fog -- Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi — 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?) — Outro; My Wasted Friends -- The Ike Reilly Assassination — 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: Jenn, Josh, Rebecca, Jenn, Adam Ross Bookrageous Book Club Pick: Zone One, Colson Whitehead Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club Get Bookrageous schwag a

Bookrageous favorites out today, November 15th! -- The Whore of Akron, Scott Raab (from episode 28) -- 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

Bookrageous favorites out today, November 1st! -- Shiny Objects, James A. Roberts The Nerdist Way, Chris Hardwick Brewed Awakening, Joshua Bernstein -- 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

Bookrageous Episode 28; Fall Trade Shows 2011 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 — Intermission; Low Light, Low Life -- POS — 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 — Outro; No Scrubs -- Karmin — 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: Jenn, Josh, Rebecca Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club 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 favorites out today, October 18th. Get to readin'! -- The Mistress Contract, Anonymous Zone One, Colson Whitehead -- 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

Bookrageous Episode 27; Subversive Books 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 8 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 — Intermission; Freedom -- Rage Against the Machine — 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 — Outro; Smells Like Teen Spirit -- Nirvana — 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: Jenn, Josh, Rebecca Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club 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 26; Banned Books 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 8 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 — Intermission; Freedom -- Jimi Hendrix— 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 8 the LGBT deranking issue [57:22] gay relationships in YA novels under attack — Outro; 1976 -- RJD2 — Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Zazzle (for the Bookrageous 2011-2012 calendar), and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323 Find Us Online:, Jeff, Josh, Rebecca; Jenn Fuzzy Typewriter Book Club 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