The Bookrageous Podcast

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  • Bookrageous Episode 83; Banned Books
    Bookrageous Episode 83; Banned BooksWhat We’re Reading
    PaulStar Wars Aftermath by Chuck WendigSmuggler's Run: A Han Solo Adventure by Greg Rucka and Phil NotoUndermajor Domo Minor by Patrick DeWittThe Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi CoatesMarvel and a Wonder by Joe Meno
    JoshThe Brothers Cabal by Jonathan HowardAsking For It by Kate HardingCinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy OrensteinMissoula by Jon Krakauer
    PreetiBoys Don't Knit in Public by T. S. EastonIf I Was Your Girl by Meredith RussoHot Pterodactyl Boyfriend by Alan CumynGoing Bovine by Libba Bray
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    The most frequently challenged and banned books in the USBanned Books Week is a Crock and the Bookriot responseTrivia about banned books week
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    58 min
  • Bookrageous Episode 82; Diversity in Books
    Bookrageous Episode 82; Diversity in Books
    Intro Music; "Bad Karma" by Ida Maria
    What We’re Reading
    Jenn
    [1:05] Victoire, Maryse Conde
    [2:30] Bright Lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam
    [3:40] Kalpa Imperial, Angelica Gorodischer
    Josh
    [5:00] Drinking in America, Susan Cheever (October 13 2015)
    [6:10] The Witches: Salem, 1962, Stacy Schiff (October 27 2015)
    [9:15] Out on the Wire, Jessica Abel
    Preeti
    [11:00] The Year We Fell Apart, Emily Martin (January 26 2016)
    [13:15] Loki: Agent of Asgard
    [15:35] Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
    ---
    Intermission; "Intermission" by Lee Fields and the Expressions
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    Diversity in Books
    [23:50] We Need Diverse Books
    [24:10] We Need Diverse Romance, twitter.com/wocinromance and twitter.com/diverseromance
    [25:05] On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard
    [25:50] Lambda Literary Awards (LGBTQ)
    Stonewall Book Awards (LGBTQ)
    Schneider Family Book Awards for disability in lit
    [27:10] Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman
    [27:50] Coretta Scott King Award (African American lit)
    Michael L. Printz Award
    Alex Awards (for adult books with YA appeal)
    [29:45] Words Without Borders
    PEN America
    Neustadt Prize for International Literature
    Lambda Literary
    [34:40] Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is, John Scalzi
    [37:05] Liar, Justine Larbalestier
    [38:05] The Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan
    [39:30] ‘Bring It On’: The Complete Oral History
    [41:15] Nalini Singh
    [42:48] Chimera, David Wellington
    [43:20] My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, Jennifer Teege
    [44:45] Gemsigns, Stephanie Saulter
    [46:10] The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
    [46:30] The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, John Chu
    [47:20] Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
    [48:30] Radio Silence and Signal Boost, Alyssa Cole
    [50:30] The Kitchen Daughter, Jael McHenry
    [51:35] Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel
    [51:50] Secret Wars: Romance
    [53:15] The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
    [53:30] Batgirl, and its fixes for transphobic language
    [53:55] Gotham Academy
    [54:00] Fresh Romance
    [54:10] Jem and the Holograms, Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell
    54:25 Lumberjanes (now canon!)
    54:50 George, Alex Gino
    [55:30] Gracefully Grayson, Ami Polonsky
    [58:00] Write Bloody Publishing
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    Outro; "Bad Karma" by Ida Maria
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    go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous
    projects. We promise.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Bookrageous Episode 81; GAMERAGEOUS

    Bookrageous Episode 81; Gamerageous

    [show note links tk]

    Intro Music; Gerudo Valley - Koji Kondo

    What We’re Reading

    - Write Bloody

    Publishing

    - Go Set A Watchman

    - State of Play

    - Undermajordomo

    Minor

    - It

    - Star Wars Dark

    Disciple

    - Heir to the Empire

    (comic)

    - Invisible Republic

    - 7 SARAH DESSEN

    BOOKS

    - Along for the Ride

    - Uncanny X Men

    - Beginning of

    Everything

    - Me Earl and the

    Dying Girl

    - The Outsiders

    - True Confessions

    of Charlotte Doyle

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    Intermission; Talk Dirty (To Me) - 8 Bit Universe

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    - Hearthstone

    - World of Warcraft

    - The Sims

    - Shovel Knight

    - Mario Kart (new)

    - Nidhogg

    - Uncharted

    - Tomb Raider

    - Papers Please

    - Westport

    Independent

    - Watch_Dogs

    - The State of Play

    - Rust

    - Rust not pick

    gender

    - Fallout 4

    - Fast

    and the Furious 6

    - Never Alone

    - Mario Maker

    -

    Kieron Gillen new games journalism

    - Level

    One

    - Penny

    Arcade

    - Scott

    Pilgrim

    -

    Seconds

    - Danny

    O Dwyer (GameSpot)

    -

    Austin Walker (Giant Bomb)

    - Phil

    Kollar

    - Leigh

    Alexander

    - Laura

    Hudson

    -

    Shadow of Mordor / Otherness

    -

    Clipping Through

    -

    Offworld

    - Extra

    Lives

    - Super

    Mario

    -

    Jacked

    -

    Console Wars

    - Rise

    of the Video Game Zinesters

    - Boss

    Fight Books

    -

    Yoshi's Island

    -

    Streets of Rage

    -

    Ocarina of Time

    - Game

    of Thrones

    - Gone

    Home

    -

    Tacoma

    -

    Eternal Darkness

    -

    Stanley Parable

    - The

    Last of Us

    - Ready

    Player One

    -

    Armada

    -

    Ender's Game

    - The

    Other Normal

    - The

    Infinity Ring

    - 39

    Clues

    -

    Minecraft

    -

    Ocarina of Time Manga

    -

    Hyrule Historia

    -

    King's Quest

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    Outro; Gerudo Valley - Koji Kondo

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    1 hr 44 min
  • Bookrageous Episode 80; Citizen by Claudia Rankine
    Bookrageous Episode 80; Citizen
    Intro Music; I'd Tell You But - Anti-Flag
    What We’re Reading
    Jenn
    [1:00] Pym, Mat Johnson
    [2:05] The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe (a real book!)
    [2:25] Shadow Tag, Louise Erdrich
    [3:15] Infinity Gauntlet #1, Dustin Weaver
    Preeti
    [5:58] A History of Glitter and Blood, Hannah Moskowitz
    [8:13] The Scorpion Rules, Erin Bow
    [11:15] Nightwing, Chuck Dixon and Scott McDaniel
    Rahawa
    [12:48] Every Kiss a War, Leesa Cross-Smith
    [13:30] Rahawa’s Short Story of the Day on Twitter
    [14:00] The Only Ones, Carola Dibbell
    [15:30] Material, Ales Kot, Will Tempest
    ---
    Intermission; Dead End Alley - Bill Elm and Woody Jackson
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    Citizen by Claudia Rankine
    [23:10] 6 ways white supremacy takes its toll on Black people’s mental health, Salon, Terrell Jermaine Starr
    [38:05] Is Serena Williams the Most Dominant American Athlete Today?, Bleacher Report, Merlisa Lawrence Corbett
    [40:00] ‘Hunger Games’ and Hollywood’s racial casting issue, CNN, Stephanie Goldberg
    [41:30] Cameron Crowe Apologies for the Emma Stone Casting Fallout in Aloha, Vulture, Sean Fitz-Gerald
    [41:40] Hollywood Diversity: Marvel Casting Tilda Swinton to Play Asian Man?, Breitbart, Kipp Jones
    [47:30] Graywolf Press on Twitter
    [49:00] PEN America
    [50:00] 2015 PEN World Voices Festival: Africa in Two Acts, PEN America YouTube
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    Outro; I'd Tell You But - Anti-Flag
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    57 min
  • Bookrageous Episode 79; Strong Female Characters
    Bookrageous Episode 79; Strong Female Characters
    Intro Music; Ha Ha Ha by the Julie Ruin
    What We’re Reading
    Preeti
    [1:30] One Man Guy, Michael Barakiva
    [3:10] Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, Sara Farizan
    [3:55] All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven
    [5:45] Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz
    Jenn
    [7:20] On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee
    [8:15] The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo, Cathy Hirano (Translator)
    [10:15] The Vampire Tapestry, Suzie McKee Charnas; WORDs for Nerds
    [11:45] The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson
    [12:50] Hexed Vol. 1, Michael Alan Nelson, Dan Mora (July 7 2015)
    Josh
    [14:50] Last of the Sandwalkers, Jay Hosler (April 7 2015)
    [17:30] I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, Martin Short
    [19:00] The Smartest Book in the World, Greg Proops
    [20:30] The Riot Grrrl Collection, edited by Lisa Darms; The Punk Singer: A Film about Kathleen Hanna
    Rebecca
    [22:37] On Immunity, Eula Biss
    [25:55] Quarantine, Rahul Mehta
    [27:00] Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed, edited by Meghan Daum (March 31 2015)
    ---
    Intermission; They Meet from Ms Pac-Man (yes, the arcade game)
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    Strong Female Characters
    [30:15] I Hate Strong Female Characters, Sophia McDougall, New Statesman
    [33:45] Jupiter Ascending
    [35:55] Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
    [36:40] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
    [37:50] The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
    [39:35] Hausfrau, Jill Alexander Essbaum
    [41:20] Not Here to Make Friends, Roxane Gay, BuzzFeed Books
    [44:05] Tampa, Alyssa Nutting
    [46:25] Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
    [49:45] Rabbit novels, John Updike
    [51:00] Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
    [53:00] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
    [53:30] A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride (in paperback June 9 2015)
    [55:05] Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories, Katherine Heiny
    [57:00] Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel, Meg Cabot (June 2 2015)
    [58:30] From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, Meg Cabot (May 19 2015)
    [1:03:00] We Need Diverse Books
    [1:04:10] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
    [1:04:55] G. Willow Wilson and comics
    [1:05:45] The Broad Inclusive Canvas of Comics, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
    [1:08:25] A Diverse, Gender-Swapped LOTR Recast, Book Riot
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    Outdo; Ha Ha Ha by the Julie Ruin
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    1 hr 12 min
  • Bookrageous Episode 78; Our Favorite Books of 2014
    Bookrageous Episode 78; Our Favorite Books of 2014
    Intro Music; Swagger by Flogging Molly
    What We’re Reading
    Jenn
    [1:15] Captain Marvel 1: Higher Further Faster More, Kelly Sue DeConnick, David Lopez (Bitch Planet)
    [2:00] The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
    [3:20] If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan
    [3:45] Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
    Rebecca
    [5:00] Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, Sara Farizan
    [6:20] Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, Nina MacLaughlin (carpentrix), March 16 2015
    [8:55] What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Laura Van Den Berg
    [9:20] Blindness, Jose Saramago
    Josh
    [10:45] Let Me Tell You, Shirley Jackson, July 21 2015
    ---
    Intermission; Intermission by Typhoon
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    Our Favorite Books of 2014
    [14:45] Josh: Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter
    [16:25] Rebecca: Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique; Mermaids in Paradise, Lydia Millet
    [20:10] Ghost Lights, Lydia Millet (mystery book: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart)
    [21:15] Jenn: Red or Dead, David Peace
    [23:00] Josh: The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman
    [26:00] Rebecca: A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, Kevin Brockmeier
    [28:10] Jenn: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride
    [29:30] Josh: Sisters, Raina Telgemeier
    [31:05] Rebecca: The Republic of Imagination, Azar Nafisi
    [33:15] Jenn: Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
    [35:00] Josh: The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner
    [36:55] Rebecca: Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
    [39:40] Jenn: Poisoned Apples, Christine Heppermann
    [41:20] Josh: Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
    [44:30] Rebecca: An Untamed State, Roxane Gay; Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, A.S. King
    [46:55] Jenn: Ms. Marvel: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona
    [46:45] Josh: The Historical Atlas of Maine
    [49:35] Rebecca: Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood
    [51:15] Rebecca: Sleep Donation, Karen Russell
    [52:25] Josh: Spoiled Brats, Simon Rich; The Noble Hustle, Colson Whitehead
    [53:05] Jenn’s “literary genre” favorites: Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer; Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes; Tigerman, Nick Harkaway; Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
    [54:25] Josh: Euphoria, Lily King
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    Outdo; Swagger by Flogging Molly
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    57 min
  • Bookrageous Episode 77; What We See When We Read
    Bookrageous Episode 77; What We See When We Read
    Intro Music; Picture Book by The Kinks
    What We’re Reading
    Jenn
    [1:15] Pluto Vol. 1, Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy)
    [2:20] What Are People For?: Essays, Wendell Berry
    [3:30] The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
    Rebecca
    [4:15] Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
    [6:20] The King, Tiffany Reisz
    [9:30] Just the Tips, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky
     
    Preeti
    [10:55] Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover, Sarah MacLean
    [13:40] The Queen of the Tearling, Erika Johansen
    [14:00] The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson
    [15:25] Loki: Agent of Asgard, Al Ewing
    [16:50] Saga: Deluxe Edition, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
    [17:50] Priya’s Shakti
    Jenn
    [18:20] ODY-C, Matt Fraction, Christian Ward
    Josh
    [20:05] Down East Magazine
    [21:00] All New X-Factor, Peter David, Carmine Di Giandomenico
    [22:50] Brew Brittania, Jessica Boak, Ray Bailey
    [24:00] Hammer Head, Nina MacLaughlin (March 16 2015)
    ---
    Intermission;  Light Reading by Late Night Alumni
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    Book Club: What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
    [27:00] What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund
    [31:55] Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward
    [38:30] Saga, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
    [41:00] Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
    [48:20] Red or Dead, David Peace
    [49:50] Science Has Great News for People Who Read Actual Books by Rachel Grate, Mic.com
    Talking with Peter Mendelsund (apologies for occasional sound issues)
    [53:40] Cover, Peter Mendelsund
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    Outro Music; Picture Book by The Kinks
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    1 hr 29 min
  • Bookrageous Episode 76; Dream Casting
    Bookrageous Episode 76; Dream Casting
    Intro Music; "No Hurry" by The New Twenty Two
    What We’re Reading
    Rebecca
    [1:15] Bird Box, Josh Malerman
    [6:05] Lila, Marilynne Robinson (Gilead)
    [7:30] Get in Trouble, Kelly Link (February 10 2015)
    Josh
    [10:40] The Brewer’s Tale, William Bostwick
    [12:20] Proof, Adam Rogers; Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter
    [12:35] Powder: The Greatest Ski Runs on the Planet, Patrick Thorne
    [14:30] The Winter Family, Clifford Jackman (April 14 2015)
    Jenn
    [17:15] The Handbook of Porters and Stouts, Josh Christie and Chad Polenz
    [19:35] Joshua Bernstein
    [19:45] Stephen Beaumont
    [20:35] Get a signed copy and personalized recommendations from Brews and Books.
    [20:45] The Republic of Imagination, Azar Nafisi
    [22:45] The Monkey-Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
    ---
    Intermission;  "Bonus Room Blitz" from the Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack
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    Dream Casting
    [24:50] Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway; The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan
    [25:15] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (the movie)
    [32:00] Filth, Irvine Welsh
    [37:35] Ali and Jenn’s 2012 Angelmaker casting
    [43:15] If List
    [45:25] Yes Please, Amy Poehler
    ---
    Outro Music; "No Hurry" by The New Twenty Two
    ---

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    52 min
  • Bookrageous Episode 75; Talking YA Fiction with Amy Zhang and A.S. King
    Bookrageous Episode 75; Talking YA Fiction with Amy Zhang and A.S. King
    Intro Music; Mean, Taylor Swift
    What We’re Reading
    Jenn
    [0:55] Who Owns the Future, Jaron Lanier; You Are Not a Gadget
    [3:45] The Shadow Hero, Gene Luen Yang, Sonny Liew; interview with Paul Montgomery, Comic Book Resources
    [5:35] Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, Garth Nix
    Preeti
    [7:30] The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
    [11:00] Amazing Spider-man/Ms. Marvel crossover
    [13:40] Marvels, Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross
    [14:40] Adventure Time Vol. 2, Ryan North, Shell Paroline, Braden Lamb
    [15:15] Sandman
    ---
    YA Fiction with Amy Zhang and A.S. King
    Amy Zhang, Falling Into Place
    100 Days of Falling Into Place
    [42:20] Let’s Get Lost, Adi Alsaid
    [42:35] A Brief History of Mankind
    [43:05] Poisoned Apples, Christine Heppermann
    A.S. King, Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
    [1:30:55] Stitches, David Small
    Blankets, Craig Thompson
    100 Sideways Miles, Andrew Smith
    Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan
    [1:32:15] Poisoned Apples, Christine Heppermann
    [1:33:35] The Year of the Beasts, Cecil Castellucci
    [1:34:05] The Man Suit, Zachary Schomburg
    [1:34:20] Daniel Fights a Hurricane, Shane Jones
    [1:34:30] Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
    [1:35:10] I Am an Emotional Creature, Eve Ensler
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    Outro Music; Mean, Taylor Swift
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    1 hr 38 min
  • Bookrageous Episode 74; International Literature
    Bookrageous Episode 74; International Literature
    Intro Music; In The Summertime - Rural Alberta Advantage
    What We’re Reading
    Jenn
    [1:15] Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens
    [3:15] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
    [4:45] The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare
    Preeti
    [5:30] The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine
    [5:45] Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe
    [9:05] Night of the Living Deadpool, Cullen Bunn
    Dustin
    [11:15] The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
    [11:50] Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems, Marina Tsvetaeva, Christopher Whyte
    [12:50] This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein
    [14:30] Songs of the Dying Earth, eds. George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois
    [16:30] Collected Poems, W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson
    ---
    Intermission; Intermission (West Side Story)
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    International Literature
    [17:40] Jenn’s sad pie-chart
    [22:45] Russian sci-fi: Victor Pelevin, Boris & Arkady Strugatsky, Sergei Lukyanenko
    [25:10] My Struggle: Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
    [26:50] A Time for Everything, Karl Ove Knausgaard, James Anderson
    [27:45] In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
    [29:45] Publishers of literature in translation: Archipelago Books (Knausgaard in hardcover), Dalkey Archive Press, Melville House, FSG, Open Letter Books, Deep Vellum Publishing, And Other Stories Publishing, New Vessel Press, Europa Editions
    [31:45] The Krishnavatara, K.M. Munshi
    [32:20] Mary Stewart’s Arthurian Saga
    [33:25] Alina Bronsky, Elena Ferrante
    [34:10] Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, Walter Benjamin
    [37:15] Lauren Beukes
    [38:20] Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
    [39:30] One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    [40:15] Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman
    [41:20] The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (character chart via Vulture)
    [42:50] Salman Rushdie
    [44:35] The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
    [46:55] Kenzaburo Oe
    [47:30] Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto
    [49:50] Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, Christian Wiman, Osip Mandelstam
    [51:30] Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Roadside Picnic; The Snail on the Slope); Sergei Lukyanenko
    [52:25] Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Juan Jose Saer: The Autumn of the Patriarch, La Grande, Scars
    [52:20] Mohsin Hamid (How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia; The Reluctant Fundamentalist)
    [53:45] War & War, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
    [55:15] The Krishnavatara, K.M. Munshi
    [56:10] Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto
    [56:50] Pluto, Naoki Urasawa
    [57:30] The Infatuations, Javier Marias; Your Face Tomorrow
    [59:10] The Pearl Series, New Directions: Bad Nature or With Elvis in Mexico, Javier Marias
    [59:35] The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, Victor Pelevin
    [1:00:10] The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo
    [1:01:15] Translators on translation: Edith Grossman, Why Translation Matters; Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, David Bellos; The Man Between, Michael Henry Heim

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