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Books & Beer: Episode 0
_Fiction vs. Non-Fiction_I convinced Clarissa to do a books podcast with me, so we set up the microphones and talked for about 45 minutes about books! I promise the next ones will be shorter, because this one kind of veered into larger discussions of why I like non-fiction more than fiction.
Next episode I’ll grill Clarissa with why she likes fiction, and we’ll try to read the same book so we can both talk about it. We’ll try to do them every two weeks or so.
(We used the same table for our microphones and beer, so those are the thumping sounds you hear occasionally. Oops! Also, maybe a jingle next time?)
Books Discussed, Mentioned, or Disparaged
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
- Franny and Zoey by JD Salinger
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, including A Path to Power and Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro
- Before the Storm and Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
- River of Shadows by Rebecca Solnit
We like to talk about books.
(via gregbrown)
