January 2012
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Bookrageous Episode 31; Zone One Book Club →
Author Colson Whitehead joined us for the inaugural edition of the Bookrageous Book Club. Check it!
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December 2011
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Talk Holiday Reading Traditions With Us!
We’re ready to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with a chat about our holiday reading traditions, and we want to hear from you!
Leave us a voicemail at 347-855-7323 to join in the fun! We’ll splice your stories into the show and holler at you when it’s up.
So hit us—-do you reread A CHRISTMAS CAROL every year or curl up with a favorite volume of wintry verse?...
November 2011
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Bookrageous Episode 30; Non-Fiction with Mary... →
Mary Roach, you guys. Mary! Roach!
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Bookrageous Episode 29: Short Stories, with... →
A doozy of an episode with a floppity jillion book recommendations AND special guest Adam Ross.
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Change of Plans: ADAM ROSS on the next...
The calendar gods threw a wrench into our plans to chat with Mary Roach this week, so Adam Ross (author of Bookrageous favorite Mr. Peanut and a terrific collection of short stories called Ladies and Gentlemen) is stepping in to join us for a show about short fiction.
Holler back at us with your thoughts and questions re: short stories (the good, the bad, the OHNOTHEYDIDNT) on...
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Mary Roach on the next Bookrageous!
We just can’t keep the secret any longer! Mary Roach is joining us for a show later this week about how to continue your education with books, and WE ARE SO EXCITED. Also, we’re a little bit concerned about forming complete sentences and not just grunting like cavemen. But mostly, WE ARE SO EXCITED.
If you have thoughts, questions, shouts of OMYGODILOVEYOUSOMUCH or whatever for us and...
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October 2011
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Bookrageous Episode 28; Fall Trade Shows →
The podcast elves stayed up late last night show-noting this one for you, so you’d have it bright and early. In our latest episode, Jenn, Josh and Rebecca get excited about meeting authors and forthcoming books. And bees!
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WatchDirty AND bookish.
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Subversive Bookrageous: Books matter. Knowledge is... →
Big ups to Friend of Bookrageous (and bookseller extraordinaire) Emily Pullen for this post about the books that rocked her worldview, inspired by our latest episode.
Have thoughts about Bookrageous? We’d love to hear them.
prolixcorpuslibris:
Bookrageous 27 was all about subversive books, and they started talking about ones they read when they were young that they probably shouldn’t...
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Random House: Ten Things Haruki Murakami Made Me... →
There is still time!
randomhouse:
Sponsored by Random House, Inc. (“Random House”)
I. HOW TO ENTER NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. The contest begins October 15, 2011, and final submissions are due by 11:59 pm (Eastern Daylight Time) on November 22, 2011. Winners will be announced no later than December 15, 2011.
II. ELIGIBILITY …
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Bookrageous Episode 27; Subversive Books →
Jenn, Josh and Rebecca dish on the books that subverted their tender innocent thoroughly corruptible minds.
Your turn: which books can you not believe you were allowed to read at that age/shifted your world-view/”blew your mind out of the back of your skull” (as Josh so graphically puts it)?
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Aristophanes finally wins Nobel prize for...
A good excuse to pick up Meg Wolitzer’s THE UNCOUPLING!
prolixcorpuslibris:
Or rather, Leymah Gbowee shares Nobel Peace Prize because of her efforts to end civil war in Libya by promoting, among other things, a “sex strike.”
A good day for the ladies, internationally. And a day that suggests that literature matters and has true impacts on our world, even 2000 years later…
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Anonymous asked: Hi, I can't seem to download your last three episodes from iTunes. And I can't seem to be able to stream the last episode. Are you switching to a different form for the podcasts? How can I get the current ones?
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Meanest Book Reviews →
These guys have the “rage” thing down pat.
vintageanchor:
1.Of Henry James, Mark Twain said, “Once you’ve put one of his books down, you simply can’t pick it up again.”
2. In response to reading Benito Mussolini’s “The Cardinal’s Mistress”, Dorothy Parker said, “this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
3. Of George Meredith,...
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September 2011
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The Bookrageous Podcast » Bookrageous Episode 26;... →
Jenn was out of town, so friend of Bookrageous Jeff of The Reading Ape joined Josh and Rebecca for a rollicking fun discussion about banned books—-the ones we’ve read, why banning sucks, and the eternal question of how to tell when a young person is ready to read a certain book. Check it out, and let us know what you’d like to hear in the future!
Anonymous asked: The last Bookrageous podcast available on iTunes is July 6th, what's up? Don't tell me you have canceled the Bookrageous Podcast as I will be very disappointed. cjmcbridestern at yahoo com
Anonymous asked: The podcasts are back up, thanks! So halloween is coming up. Can you guys do an episode or talk about spooky/halloween-ish books? I just think that the turning of the season and the stormy weather makes this the perfect time to read spooky and atmospheric books. Some books I like during this time of the year are The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, M.R. James short stories, The Ghost Story by...
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Bookrageous Team Member Josh Christie featured on... →
We love Josh, and you should, too!
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Banned Books Week is coming!
Banned Books Week kicks off this Saturday, September 24th, and Team Bookrageous is getting together Sunday evening to record our banned books show. If there are questions, books, or ideas you’d like to hear us discuss, we’d love to hear about them! Holler back here, on Twitter @bookrageous, or send email to bookrageous@gmail.com.
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Bookrageous Episode 25; Great Big Not Very Short...
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Intro Music; Bigger Blacker Ben - Samuel James
What We’re Reading
Rebecca
[01:20] The Magician King, Lev Grossman
[03:24] Making an Exit, Sarah Murray, October 2011
[04:00] Curtains, Tom Jokonen
[04:24] The Undertaking, Thomas Lynch
[06:10] The Get-Away Car, Ann Patchett
[06:30] House of Holes, Nicholson Baker
Jenn
[07:30] Ragnarok, AS Byatt,...
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Bookrageous Favorites Out This Week!
Big fiction and nonfiction out this week, including the baseball book that isn’t really a baseball book but will make you love baseball books.
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff, paperback edition (Back Bay Books)
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown and Co)
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“A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only...”
– Perfect in light of this podcast episode we just recorded about big books.
Mick Foley (via bookshavepores)
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Read ZONE ONE with the Bookrageous Book Club!
Zombies! New York! Humor!
Bookrageous loves nothing more than we love a good genre buster, so we’ve selected Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, coming October 18th from Doubleday, to kick off the new quarterly Bookrageous Book Club.
Save 10% when you pre-order your copy from WORD Brooklyn—-just enter BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments on your order—-and join us mid-November for the...
August 2011
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Bookrageous Favorites Out Today!
And so begins the season of ZOMG THERE ARE SO MANY AMAZING NEW BOOKS!
True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School edited by Susan Gubar (W.W. Norton)
We the Animals by Justin Torres (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)**
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta (St. Martin’s Press)
What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes (Grove/Atlantic)
**Unanimous Bookrageous Favorite, read...
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Bookrageous Playlist →
Just in time for our first anniversary, Josh created a Spotify playlist of all the music we’ve used on the show. Check it!