Feb
13
On Book Tourism [Bookrageous]
2012 at 5am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
I’ve written before about how I love to visit bookstores when I travel, and I know I’m not alone. For this new episode of the Bookrageous Podcast, Josh and Jenn invited our friends David Gutowski (of Largehearted Boy) and Gabrielle Gantz (of The Contextual Life) to join us for a conversation about book tourism and their new project Book Boroughing, which highlights literary events all over New York City. It was fun conversation, and the largest group we’ve had on the show yet.
I hope you’ll enjoy, subscribe, and let us know what you’d like to hear on future shows.
Intro Music; Needing/Getting, OK Go
What We’re Reading
Josh
[1:15] Enemies and Allies, Kevin Anderson
[2:45] Raylan, Elmore Leonard
[4:16] Blueprints of the Afterlife, Ryan Boudinot
Rebecca
[6:43] Contents May Have Shifted, Pam Houston (Hunger Mountain article)
[9:05] Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman, February 14 2012
[9:45] Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson, April 17 2012
Jenn
[10:17] Why We Broke Up, Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman
[11:33] Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (REAMDE)
[13:30] Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carre
Gabrielle
[13:54] Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
[16:58] Second Reading, Jonathan Yardley
[18:36] The Speed Chronicle, edited by Joseph Mattson
David
[19:38] Drifting House, Krys Lee
[20:21] Vicky Swanky is a Beauty, Diane Williams
[21:02] Stay Awake, Dan Chaon
[21:55] Zona, Geoff Dyer
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Intermission; Destroyer of Worlds, The Sugarettes (free download on Largehearted Boy)
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Book Tourism
[23:49] Book Boroughing
[26:15] Electric Lit
[31:15] Minnesota Reads / I Will Dare
[33:44] Rainy Day Books
[34:27] Tattered Cover
[34:35] McNally Jackson’s Twitter
[34:48] LA Times Festival of Books (hi, Emily!)
[35:34] National Book Festival
[36:57] Decatur Book Festival
[37:41] Brooklyn Book Festival
[38:40] Southern Festival of Books
[39:43] Virginia Festival of the Book
[40:39] New York Comic Con
[43:55] Politics and Prose; McNally Jackson
[48:10] The Rumpus
[48:27] Miami Book Fair
[50:01] Marc Maron on Hemingway’s house
[52:53] Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Jon Berendt
[53:25] Sin in the Second City, Karen Abbott
[54:10] Lost City of Z, David Gran
[54:24] This Life Is in Your Hands, Melissa Coleman
[54:33] Following Atticus, Tom Ryan
[54:55] Jim Carroll
[55:45] The Dewey Decimal System, Nathan Larson
[57:25] Aurorarama, Jean-Christophe Valtat
[57:40] Brakebills South (The Magicians, Lev Grossman)
[58:10] American Gods, Neil Gaiman
[58:23] Kraken and The City & The City, China Mieville
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Outro; Needing/Getting, OK Go
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Great ep! Many thanks to David for the Minnesota Reads mention as I will be headed to Minneapolis in the third week of March to visit some family and am most definitely interested in checking out the local sellers. His recommendation gave me a place to start. Thanks!