So Many Damn Books
A blessing, a curse, a podcast, since 2014.
Christopher (@cdhermelin) invites folks to the Damn Library to talk about reading, literature, publishing, and trying to make it through the never-dwindling stack of things to read. All with a themed drink in hand. Recorded at the Damn Library in Brooklyn, NY.
For show info, book lists, and drink recipes, follow @somanydamnbooks and visit somanydamnbooks.com
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117: Backlist: Larry McMurtry ("Lonesome Dove")
43 min
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116: #OneBookNY (Patti Smith's JUST KIDS) & Top...
34 min
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115: Mona Awad (BUNNY) & Rebecca Godfrey's THE ...
41 min
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114: Seth (CLYDE FANS) & Virginia Woolf's TO TH...
59 min
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113: Erin Somers (STAY UP WITH HUGO BEST) & Dor...
44 min
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112: Myla Goldberg (FEAST YOUR EYES) & Jesse Ba...
50 min
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111: Lauren Wilkinson (AMERICAN SPY) & Nella La...
53 min
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110: Leanne Shapton (GUESTBOOK: GHOST STORIES) ...
57 min
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The 2019 Tournament of Books -- Minisode #4
16 min
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The 2019 Tournament of Books -- Minisode #3
9 min
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109: Halle Butler (THE NEW ME) & Samuel Beckett...
49 min
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The 2019 Tournament of Books -- Minisode #2
14 min
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The 2019 Tournament of Books -- Minisode #1
11 min
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108: Unreliable Narrators
29 min
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107: Charlie Jane Anders (THE CITY IN THE MIDDL...
53 min
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106: Karen Thompson Walker (THE DREAMERS) & Kaz...
38 min
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105: Top 6* of 2018
21 min
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104: Happy Holidays, 2018 edition!
19 min
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103: Jonathan Lethem (THE FERAL DETECTIVE) & Se...
56 min
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102: Preti Taneja (WE THAT ARE YOUNG) & Ahmed S...
45 min
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101: Sjón (CODEX:1962) & Christian Kracht's THE...
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, from golems to Frankensteins, from self-representation to translation, as they discuss the maximalist,...
53 min
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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 books, contributing 50 each. Listen as they go through (some of) them. They also try a couple new segment ideas!...
53 min
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99: Milan Bozic (HarperCollins Senior Art Direc...
Drew and Christopher host HarperCollins' senior art director for a chat about book cover design, the hipness of text, trends in design, and more, plus how everyone has a Murakami phase, and some surprising things about the behind the scenes of book...
40 min
124
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 "My Other Car is a Book" tote is now available for your purchase. Then they get into vacation reading, never...
36 min
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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 Manhattan Beach. They talk its pleasures, and diving costumes, and the possibilities of New York, as well as the...
36 min