Reading Envy

Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy pub with two guests, Seth Wilson and Barret Newman.  Books discussed range from media to space, Naples to the Hebrides. (Listen to the end for a surprise uninvited guest.) Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 24 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books discussed: How to Watch TV News by Neil Postman and Steve Powers Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan Neuromancer by William Gibson My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Contact by Carl Sagan Other books and authors mentioned: Kurt Vonnegut Ernest Hemingway Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner Toni Morrison Stephen King Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman (audiobook) American Gods by Neil Gaiman Sandman (series) by Neil Gaiman Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman The Pluto Files  Neil deGrasse Tyson Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Count Zero by William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Spook Country by William Gibson Other items mentioned in passing: Reading Envy Episode 007 - Top Secret Dance Off The 50 Year Argument (documentary on The New York Review of Books) Page One (documentary on the New York Times) Cosmos with Carl Sagan Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk Radio Show with Neil deGrasse Tyson Cyberpunk subgenre Posthuman subgenre (Worlds Without End calls it "human development") Tron The Matrix Stalk us online: Jenny at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter Barret on Twitter

It all started with the Summer of Jest, which was preceded by Infinite Summer.... So much summer in the middle of a wretched winter. What gives? Jenny sits down at the Reading Envy Pub with two friends from a book group called the Misfit Readers - Marco Morelli and Averi Dylan. They discuss origins of the group, what we read, how we read, and what it means to each of us. Who is our patron saint? You'll have to listen to find out! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 23 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books and authors discussed: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (series) Eragon by Christopher Paolini The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Brothers K by David James Duncan S. by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson The Pale King by David Foster Wallace If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Toni Morrison A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Underworld by Don DeLillo Overcast by Mark Jabbour Stalk us online: Jenny at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter Marco Morelli (website) Misfit Readers on Facebook (savvy users are welcome to find us and ask to join)

Today we keep it all in the family, well kind of, and Scott's son joins us to talk about books we have been reading AND enjoying lately. It is funny how sometimes unintentional themes emerge, within our own reading and between reading friends. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 22 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books discussed: Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Cobra Event by Richard Preston Euphoria by Lily King Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? by Guy Consolmagno and Paul Mueller Divergent by Veronica Roth Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey Other books or topics that came up: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne Valente Bones (TV show) The Hot Zone by Richard Preston Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton The Stand by Stephen King The Higgs boson Insurgent by Veronica Roth My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Also Lily King did not write The News from Paraguay. That was Lily Tuck. Jenny got a little too excited. Stalk us online: Jenny at GoodReads Scott at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter Scott on Twitter Scott on his blog  

Jenny and writer/editor/designer Darin Bradley sit down on a cold afternoon in the Reading Envy pub to discuss reading from a variety of perspectives. Get ready to add some books to your to-read lists! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 21 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Darin is the author of three novels—Noise (2010), Chimpanzee (2014), and Totem (2016)—as well as co-editor of the literary fringe journal Bahamut and editor-in-chief of the experimental ezine Farrago's Wainscot. With a Ph.D. in Literature and Theory, he works as an acquisitions and production editor at Resurrection House, having previously spent a number of years teaching writing and literature at several universities. He has also worked as the principal video game writer at id Software and has served in various editorial and design capacities for a number of independent presses and journals. He lives in Texas with his wife, where he dreams of empty places. Credits: Darin Bradley (bio), Erin Rambo (photo) This episode is not sponsored by Microsoft. We swear! Books and authors mentioned:   Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Light Years by James Salter Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany The Names by Don DeLillo Afterparty by Daryl Gregory Kelly Link Jeffrey Ford Jonathan Lethem China Mieville  Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel Trampoline: An Anthology edited by Kelly Link Alfred Bester Underworld by Don DeLillo Falling Man by Don DeLillo Totem by Darin Bradley (forthcoming) Archangel by Marguerite Reed (forthcoming) King of Shards by by Matthew Kressel (forthcoming) We Dream of Water by Srdjan Smajic (forthcoming) Chimpanzee by Darin Bradley - the audio play Ready Player One by Ernst Cline Word Made Flesh by Jack O'Connell Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey Other mentions: Farrago's Wainscot - a quarterly journal of the literary weird in fiction and poetry Bahamut Journal -  a biannual journal of the progressive fringe in transnational literature University of North Texas English Department - Special Events (includes information on Darin's reading) Texas Book Festival Stalk us online: Darin Bradley  Jenny at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter

Scott and Jenny gather by the fire in the Reading Envy Pub to discuss our reading goals for 2015.  It is January, we are excited about what is coming up on our reading lists, and we want to know about your reading goals as well. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 20 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books we read recently, an excerpt: Harbinger (Star Trek, Vanguard #1) by David Mack Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak Reading Goals for 2015: Jenny World Literature - Southeast Asia, Oceania, Australia - read a bunch of books!Mighty Tomes - Dhalgren, and maybe a return to War and PeaceSpy novels and memoirs. More spies. (Any recommendations?) Authors in translation - Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove KnaussgardRead the books from authors I might meet. Scott The Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellThe Martian by Andy WeirHyperion / Fall of Hyperion by Dan SimmonsDon Quixote by CervantesInferno by DanteThe Habit of Being by Flannery O'ConnorGhost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal (if it gets released this year)A year with Gene Wolfe: JAN - The Shadow of the Torturer (1980) FEB - The Claw of the Conciliator (1981) MAR - The Sword of the Lictor (1982) APR - The Citadel of the Autarch (1983) MAY - The Urth of the New Sun (1987) JUN - Nightside the Long Sun (1993) JUL - Lake of the Long Sun (1994) AUG - Caldé of the Long Sun (1994) SEP - Exodus From the Long Sun (1996) OCT - On Blue's Waters (1999) NOV - In Green's Jungles (2000) DEC - Return to the Whorl (2001) Stalk us online: Jenny at GoodReads Scott at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter Scott on Twitter Scott on his blog

For Episode 019, some past guests as well as some other readers contribute their favorite books from 2014.  Thanks to everyone who participated! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 19 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books mentioned:   Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine The Broken Road: Travels from Bulgaria to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor Builder Goose by Boni Ashburn The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan The Martian by Andy Weir Inversions by Iain M. Banks Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee The Lost Salt Gift of Blood by Alistair MacLeod Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Also mentioned: Science Fiction Book Review Podcast SFF Audio Podcast Stalk us online: Jenny at GoodReads Scott at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter Scott on Twitter Scott on his blog

In episode 18, Jenny and Scott talk about the best of 2014! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 018 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe CLICK HERE to find out how you can add something to the next podcast! Some of the books mentioned (the ones we've read, at least): The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell Orfeo by Richard Powers Geek Love by Katherine Dunn The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra Chimpanzee by Darin Bradley The End is Nigh, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr. The Open Door: 100 Years of Poetry Magazine The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon The Most Dangerous Book by Kevin Birmingham Everything Annie Dillard has written Pavane by Keith Roberts Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi (read by Wil Wheaton) The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchman Jesus: A Pigrimage by James Martin And some lists: NPR Book Concierge 2014 NY Times 100 Notable Books GoodReads Best of 2014 (user-voted) Audible Best Books of 2014 Tor.com Reviewers Choice - Best Books of 2014 Amazon 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, Feb 2014

In this episode we bring our pal Luke Burrage, who was recording past midnight in Berlin for Episode 017. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 017 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books discussed:   The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis Ronald MacDonald what the world will look like when the water leaves us by Laura van den Berg Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber The Son of God in the Roman World by Michael Peppard As They Were by M.F.K. Fisher Other books and topics that came up along the way: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, the new audiobook The "Bryan List" of post-modern literature (see comments on Reading Envy Episode 003) SFF Audio Odyssey readalong (first of six episodes) Engaging the Powers by Walter Wink Find Me by Laura van den Berg Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress George Singleton, author George Saunders, author The Big Time by Fritz Leiber The Persistence of Vision by John Varley The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson Gladiator, the movie, which Jenny has never seen Les Miserables, the movie, where Russell Crowe sings Les Miserables, the 25th anniversary tv special You can find Luke Burrage, international juggler and entertainer, on his website.  He is also known for the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast, where he reviews every single science fiction book that he reads. More stalking: Jenny at GoodReads Scott at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter Scott on Twitter Scott on his blog

This episode features a repeat guest from Episode 015: The Time for Exclaiming Over Costumes, Jean!  This time she drops by the Reading Envy pub to discuss a few books she has read lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 16 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books discussed: The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit The Lover by Marguerite Duras The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich Other books or topics that came up: Library of Water Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in The New Yorker, 1939 Newberry Award Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman "Cancer novels" by Lurlene McDaniel Henri le chat noir

This episode features another book club - The League of Extraordinary Dorks Book Club.  Karen ("Cat") and Jean ("Owly") join Jenny ("Sam") to discuss five years of this virtual world book club. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 15 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe In November 2009, the League of Extraordinary Dorks Book Club had its very first meeting in Second Life.  The picture includes three of the characters from Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger - Elspeth and two "kittens of death."  And thus begins a book club that takes place in virtual space, with monthly meetings, and an emphasis on costumes, or rather, coming as a character from the book. Some of our favorite reads, according to Cat, Owly, and Sam: Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente Rites of Spring: the Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker Wool by Hugh Howey St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Up next: Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris.  If you're curious, you can read it and join in. Important links: Book club booklist League of Extraordinary Dorks Book Club blog - pictures, chat, lists. (Here is one example of a book club discussion that you can relive through the blog!) The League of Extraordinary Dorks Book Club in Goodreads