So Many Damn Books

Sarah Anderson zooms by the Damn Library for a chat about her novel concerning an all-too-real corporate surrogacy initiative, Fallow. We get into how wonderful her MFA was, the ways Julie Buntin helped, and how she’d do in a farm collective. Plus, she brings along the inventive, globetrotting novel A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood, and the longest recommendation list to date. It’s real bookish in here!For the drink recipe, every book mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-263Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic

I found a book list I made on Facebook in September 2014. Right before this show started. I revisit the list, and then I make a new one. Lists are fun! Reading is fun! You, reading this right now: you are fun.For the drink recipe, every book mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-262Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic

A list of short books, because life is short, and you need to make your reading goals.(a sequel to the episode “22 Short Books”)For the drink recipe, every book mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-261Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic

Meg Richardson stops by the Damn Library for some kid wine (or is it adult Martinelli’s?) and book chatter. We get into whether she’s the Jackie or the Kayla, her time as a pawn shop employee, and the journey of this book through lots of different forms before resolving back to the one with all her “darlings.” Plus, she brings along her War and Peace: Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep.For the drink recipe, every book mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-260Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic

Two-time Survivor contestant, cohost of the Survivor podcast We Know Survivor, as well as the literary podcast Paraphrase, Stephen Fishbach drops onto the island SMDB and brings along the swashbuckling spirit of his novel Escape! As you might expect, Survivor is discussed, as is the jungle in general, and self-mythologizing, and then we tear into the savagery of William Golding’s classic, Lord of the Flies.For the drink recipe, every book mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-259Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic

Ailsa Ross uses the power of the internet to join Christopher and chat about the pleasure of destruction, letting mosquitoes bite, the cost of licensing museum photos, and other things too. Plus, she brings along a Jean Rhys novel that wasn’t Wide Sargasso Sea,Voyage in the Dark, and both enjoy the embattled, embittered voice.For the drink recipe, every book mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-258Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic

I hang out and chat a bit about books I've read recently! Fun, right? So much fun.For the drink recipe, every book mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-257Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic

Casey Scieszka squeezes through the internet’s tubes to arrive safely on the podcast and talk The Fountain, her debut novel. We get into immortality, and alcohol etymology, and the Spruceton Inn residency, and growing up the daughter of famous children’s author, Jon Scieszka. Plus, we dive deeper into Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting. Were the Tucks faeries or what?For the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-256Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic

Lior Torenberg zooms into the Damn Library to chat about Just Watch Me, an early entry in the run for “best book of the year.” She goes into just how deep her love for hot sauce goes, some terribly cramped apartments, and chats about the trope of the sad girl grifter. Plus, we get to talk about Rufi Thorpe’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles, a much different book about making money online.For the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-255Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic