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Special guest Ed Champion endorses Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia
We also mention:
Bat Segundo Show and EdRants.com
Come Meet the Author, but Open Your Wallet NYT
Douglas Coupland
The IFOA
William Gaddis's The Recognitions
McNally Jackson
1000 Fan Theory
Neil Gaiman
Alamo Draft House Movie Poster Series
Jennifer Egan's A Visit from The Goon Squad
Preacher's F**k Communism lighter
David Mitchell's New York tour
Edith Bolton reading series
Thomas Kinkade and James Mason
Stone Arabia in NY state
Don Delillo
Sufjan Stevens and Brian Wilson's Smile
Dennis Wilson and Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
See also Ed's Roundtable part one, two, three, four, and five.
Mark is enthusiastic about Brendan Kerner's skyjacking nonfiction The Skies Belong to Us. It's our first live show! Mark and Jon record in the same room for the first time ever. (We'd fooled you, hadn't we?) This episode we also talk about our most notable takeaways from the unplanned 'hiatus...
Published 01/27/14
Mark is enthusiastic about Neil Gaiman's latest The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also discuss whether Brad Pitt is entitled to a victory lap for his adaptation of a show-favourite novel, Max Brooks' World War Z. We cover:
Our initial discussion of WWZ
Brad Pitt eating
The Vanity Fair...
Published 09/10/13
Jon endorses Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.
We also mention:
Military Scifi
Ender's Game and Movie
John Scalzi's Old Man's War
John Steakley's Armor
Hiroshi Sakurazaka's All You Need Is Kill
Joe Haldeman's The Forever War
Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Stanislaw Lem's Return from...
Published 07/14/13