Summary: 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
