Special guest Emily St John Mandel endorses Irmgard Keun’s After Midnight.

We also mention:

TheMillions Review of Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains

macfreedom.com

Last Night in Montreal by Emily St John Mandel

The Singer's Gun by Emily St John Mandel

Unbridled Book's announcement of Emily St John Mandel's 3rd novel

Emily's tribute to Emilie Jacobson of Curtis Brown

Patrick Brown's review of Emily Mandel's The Singer's Gun

Emily Mandel's author photo

The Second Life of Irmgard Keun by Emily St John Mandel

Wikipedia entry for Irmgard Keun

After Midnight by Irmgard Keun and Anthea Bell at Amazon

Hans Fallada at Melville House

The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun and Kathie von Ankum at Amazon

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

emilymandel.com

Emily Mandel on Twitter

Emily is reading at Banksquare Books

Emily is also reading in Brooklyn at the end of August

Emily St. John Mandel's 5 Questions Never to Ask at a Bookstore Reading at Blurb is a Verb.

Special guest Ed Champion endorses Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia

We also mention:

Bat Segundo Show and EdRants.com

Come Meet the Author, but Open Your Wallet NYT

Douglas Coupland

The IFOA

William Gaddis's The Recognitions

McNally Jackson

1000 Fan Theory

Neil Gaiman

Alamo Draft House Movie Poster Series

Jennifer Egan's A Visit from The Goon Squad

Preacher's Fuck Communism lighter

David Mitchell's New York tour

Edith Bolton reading series

Thomas Kinkade and James Mason

Stone Arabia in NY state

Don Delillo

Sufjan Stevens and Brian Wilson's Smile

Dennis Wilson and Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta

See also Ed's Roundtable part one, two, three, four, and five.

Mark endorses Ben MacIntyre's Agent Zigzag.

We also mention:

The end of Harry Potter movie franchise

Da Vinci Code

Infinite Jest

The Secret

The Alchemist

Citizen Kane

Lord of The Rings

Game of Thrones

Ben Macintyre entry Wikipedia

Ben Macintyre's The Englishman's Daughter

Eddie Chapman's entry on Wikipedia

Book Of Lies by Mary Horlock

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Erik Larson's Devil in the White in City

Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat

The Heist Society books by Ally Carter

Jon endorses Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why.

We also mention:

John Locke becoming a million seller on Kindle, 99 cents at a time.

.xxx TLD entry on Wikipedia

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

Studios pull back from San Diego Comic Con (ew.com)

Beastly book and movie

Meghan Cox Gurdon's Darkness Too Visible from WSJ.com

Sliding Doors

Falling Down

Gossip Girl series

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Mark endorses Wilbert Rideau's In the Place of Justice.

We also mention:

Rockstar Games' L.A. Noire

Christine Love's Digital: A Love Story

Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus TEDTalk

Jon had a TI-99 4a, not an Amiga

FreedomTM by Daniel Suarez

DCU Online

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King and movie

The Green Mile by Stephen King

OZ The TV Series

To Kill A Mockingbird

Angola Louisiana State Penitentiary

The Angolite prison newspaper

Wilbert Rideau on Wikipedia

George Polk Award

C. Paul Phelps -- the warden who brings press freedom to Angola

Burl Cain -- the warden Rideau says ended press freedom in Angola

Zeitoun

Hellhole by Atul Gawande - The New Yorker

The Way to Stop Prison Rape by David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Jon endorses Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed.

We also mention...

The 2011 MobyAwards

Trailer for Tree of Codes

Trailer for Wild Child

Trailer for Where Good Ideas Come From

Trailer for Little Chickens, Big Day

Tom Cruise as Lee Child's rugged Jack Reacher

Liam Neeson, Daniel Craig, Josh Brolin, Armie Hammer are our picks to play Jack Reacher

Fuzzy Typewriter podcast from Paul Montgomery

Restarting Comics’ Clock Is Issue No. 1 By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES from NYT.

Josh Ferris' And Then We Came To The End

Slate editor David Plotz's chose The Unnamed for book of the year in 2010.

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Road

The Unnamed on Goodreads

twitter.com/enthusiasticast

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Mark endorses Scott Westerfeld's Behemoth

We also mention

iFanboy Podcast for X-Men: First Class

X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (series entry on wikipedia)

Matthew Vaughn (interviewed on The Treatment, Bleeding Cool)

Revenge of the Sith, Hunger, Cars2, Mad Men and Munich

Phlip Pulman's His Dark Materials and Kenneth Oppel's Airborn

Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan (scottwesterfeld.com)

Paolo Bacigalupi (Ship Breaker and Windup Girl)

Scott Westerfeld's Uglies

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

The Difference Engine, Sherlock Holmes Movie, H.G. Wells

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Jon endorses Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind.

We also mention:

EW cover of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss

Johnny Depp says Pirates 2 could have been better

Michael Bay says he went south on Transformers 2

Informationist by Taylor Stevens

Hype for Dark Knight 4

Red band trailer of Girl With a Dragon Tattoo

Patrick Rothfuss's Open letter to Nathan Fillion

Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

Mark endorses Tina Fey's BossyPants.

A contest of sorts: If you are enthusiastic about books that you want us to read and review on the show, send us an email. If we end up reviewing your choice we will gift you a book.

Other things we mention in the show...

Movie Studios Approve $30 Rental Plan, Theater Owners Mightily Upset

Master Switch by Tim Wu (Mark loved it even though he endorses monopolies on the show)

The Informationist by Taylor Stevens

Informationist reviews on Goodreads.

Ted Talk on filter bubbles

Taylor Stevens and The Children of God

Celebrity bios on the NYT bestseller list

Steve Martin's An Object of Beauty

30 Rock

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.

We chat about Thor (2011).

Also:

Tom Hiddleston

Idris Elba

Barney Stinson's Bro Code

The Avenger's Movie

Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye

Gladiator

Fast Five

Neil Gaiman's American Gods

Cosmic Cube

Thanos

Red Skull

Iron Man

Captain America

Legends of the Fall

Pirates of The Caribbean

Green Lantern

Colombiana