102: Preti Taneja (WE THAT ARE YOUNG) & Ahmed Saadawi's FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD
It's a celebration of stories in translation (both linguistically and narratively), indie bookstores, and bourbon on the latest SMDB when Pr...
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A bookish podcast celebrating a love of reading, with literary cocktails, recommendations, and author-guests talking about their work and a book they love. For show info, book lists, and dri...
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20 of 100 episodes101: Sjón (CODEX:1962) & Christian Kracht's THE DEAD
All the way from Iceland, Sjón joins the guys in a Damn Library annex, aka the FSG offices. The conversation ranges from ghosts to unicorns,...
100: One Hundred Beloved Books
For their 100th episode extravaganza, Drew and Christopher put together a list of their 100 most beloved/most meaningful/most important book...
99: Milan Bozic (HarperCollins Senior Art Director) & Jaroslav Hašek's THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK
Drew and Christopher host HarperCollins' senior art director for a chat about book cover design, the hipness of text, trends in design, and...
98: Reading Snapshot 2
Christopher and Drew hang out with a whiskey+tea cocktail and just give themselves over to the book chat. First: BUY YOURSELF A TOTE! The "M...
97: #OneBookNY (Jennifer Egan's MANHATTAN BEACH)
Christopher and Drew bring back the One Book, One New York episode for another go, this time reading the city's choice of Jennifer Egan's Ma...
96: R.O. Kwon (THE INCENDIARIES) & Rachel Khong's GOODBYE VITAMIN
R.O. Kwon buzzes in with her buzzy book, The Incendiaries , and the guys get to talk to her about stuff like campus novels, North Korea, how...
95: Megan Abbott (GIVE ME YOUR HAND) & Lisa Halliday's ASYMMETRY
Megan Abbott returns to the Damn Library for her new book Give Me Your Hand , and Christopher cooks up a color changing cocktail to celebrat...
94: John Hodgman (VACATIONLAND)
John Hodgman joins the gentlemen in the Damn Library to talk about all sorts of things, from a Borges scholar posing for a picture to readin...
93: Top 5 of 2018 (so far) + Summer Reading
Christopher and Drew hang in the Damn Library and talk about the books they've liked so far this year, the books they are going to read next...
92: Hannah Pittard (VISIBLE EMPIRE) & Ralph Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN
Hannah Pittard drops back into the Damn Library after writing and editing and publishing an entire new novel called Visible Empire ! While d...
91: Stephanie Danler (SWEETBITTER on Starz) & Lorrie Moore's ANAGRAMS
Stephanie Danler drops by the Damn Library for a second go around, this time to talk the Sweetbitter television adaptation she created, now...
90: Amy Kurzweil (FLYING COUCH) & Riad Sattouf's ARAB OF THE FUTURE
For the first time ever, a graphic memoirist stops by the Damn Library in the form of Amy Kurzweil, author of the graphic memoir Flying Couc...
89: Christopher + Drew (Just Interview Each Other)
Christopher and Drew hang out and explain themselves. They also talk their jobs, and formative reading experiences, and other subjects. musi...
88: Jonathan Ames (YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE) & Leonard Gardner's FAT CITY
Jonathan Ames, writer of novels like Wake Up, Sir and I Pass Like Night , as well as series creator of Bored to Death and Blunt Talk , sits...
Minisode: 2018 PEN World Voices Festival!
Christopher and Drew talk about PEN's 2018 World Voices Festival - check out their website of events! https://worldvoices.pen.org/schedule/...
87: Ruth Curry (Emily Books) & Sigrid Nunez's THE FRIEND
Ruth Curry joins the guys in the Damn Library fresh off her #TOB18 judge-ship to chat about all sorts of things, like balancing her reading...
The 2018 Tournament of Books - Minisode #4
Oh my gosh! It's over! Listen to me and Drew talk about what we thought about the Tournament this year, and also, a couple books we really w...
The 2018 Tournament of Books - Minisode #3
Oh my gosh it's still the tournament and we are feeling the madness! Listen to us talk about what's gone on so far, and also, some of the pa...
86: Gabe Habash (STEPHEN FLORIDA) & Iris Murdoch's THE NICE AND THE GOOD
Christopher and Drew wrestle up Gabe Habash to drink, chat, and be merry. Christopher serves everyone a very strange cocktail based on Habas...