Rather than do our normal "favorite books of XXXX" podcast, we decided to focus on four books from last year that we really liked: Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge, Javier Marias's The Infatuations, Keith Ridgway's Hawthorn & Child, and Arnon Grunberg's Tirza. (Chad also snuck in a reference to Julia Deck's Viviane, which is coming out in April.) Then things devolved--as is probably expected by now--into talking about the demise of Bookish. 

Additionally, we each wrote a special post to go along with this podcast. You can get to Tom's here, and Chad's here.