Summary: 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
