Ben and Brendon talk to award winning journalist Alex Blumberg, podcast host and founder of Gimlet Media. Alex will deliver the 2035 Lecture on 8/15/16.

Emily St. John Mandel, who will be appearing at the Mercantile on September 15th, calls in to talk to Brendon Cull, John Faherty, and Abby Moran about her novel Station 11.

Brendon Cull, Kevin Necessary, and Chris Wetterich discuss Howard Means' "67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocnece."

Abby Moran, Mary Curran Hackett, Joe Heyd, and Linda Maupin re-cap the fourth and final War in Pieces session.

Paula Boggs Muething, Mike O'Neill, and Cedric Rose discuss The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Mary Curran Hackett, Joe Heyd, Linda Maupin, and Abby Moran recap the third session of the Mercantile's War in Pieces discussion group, which is tackling War and Peace in four easy-to-read parts.

Alyssa Brandt, Mary Curran Hackett, Abby Moran, and P. G. Sittenfeld on Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld's modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice.

CONTAINS SPOILERS

Becky Cull, Mary Curran Hackett, Joe Heyd, and Abby Moran recap the second session of the Mercantile's War in Pieces discussion group, which is tackling War and Peace in four easy-to-read parts.

The group will meet to discuss Volume Three on May 10th.

Gabrielle Blocher and Ben Greenberg discuss Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence.

Grace Dobush, Ben Greenberg, and Cedric Rose discuss William Gibson's Neuromancer.