Synopsis:

This week we speak with New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler.  We covered his start in the publishing industry, the podcast-only novel mechanism, and his upcoming book release ANCESTOR.  Plus, there’s this bit about the World Cup as well (it’s called football, not soccer!).

(Photo Credit: ScottSigler.com)

Show Length: 52:15

Scott Sigler on the Net:

• Official Website
• Twitter.com/scottsigler
• INFECTED
• CONTAGIOUS
• ANCESTOR

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Synopsis:

What are the books that make the babblers break into a smile?  Perhaps even outright laughter?(Although it must be said that would look weird.  Good for clearing a space for you in public transports, though).  Anyway, babblers list out some interesting picks here, and in true Bookbabble style, a most varied and eclectic mix indeed.  Not just funny books, mind you, but satirical and cynical yet darkly humorous works are also covered.  Plus, critically-acclaimed poet who’s actually crap, and Marcel goes postal.  “Some people shouldn’t be allowed to write!”, he wails. 

(Photo Credit: Christopher Moore from Seattle P-I)

Show Length: 1:09:47

Show Notes:

• Shakespeare
• Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald
• David Sedaris
• Jon Stewart, America the Book, Naked Pictures of Famous People
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Neil Gaiman
• Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan saga
• Janet Evanovich
• Samuel Beckett
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• PG Wodehouse, Jeeves and Wooster Stories
• Dorothy Parker’s interior monologues
• Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais
• Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
• JP Donleavy, "The Ginger Man"
• Lars Saabye Christense The jealous hairdresser/barber
• Hanif Kureishi
• Lars Saabye Christensen
• Eoin Colfer – Hitchhiker’s sequel
• Against The Day, Thomas Pynchon
• Will Self
• Quantity Theory of Insanity
• Gabriel Chevallier
• http://www.amazon.com/Scandals-Clochemerle-Gabriel-Chevallier/dp/1416569766/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275841439&sr=1-1
• Tova Reich
• The Jewish War
• Villy Sørensen:
• http://www.amazon.com/Harmless-Tales-Villy-Sorensen/dp/1870041151/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275841868&sr=1-3
• Cynthia Ozick
• My Holocaust
• http://www.amazon.com/God-Bless-You-Dr-Kevorkian/dp/0743422007/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275842158&sr=8-1
• The Liar, Stephen Fry
• Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry
• The Gunseller, Hugh Laurie
• The Stars’ Tennis Balls
• http://www.amazon.com/Ode-Less-Travelled-Unlocking-Within/dp/1592403115/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275843236&sr=8-8
• Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
• Joe Dunthorne
• Heather Phillipson
• http://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-40-passions-and-obsessions/poems/james-grieve/
• http://www.penpushermagazine.co.uk/magazine/extracts/article/284/
• John Barth
• Donald Barthelme
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sot-weed_factor
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/feb/17/fiction.reviews1

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Synopsis:

The babblers talk about crime fiction, and lists books in this genre (with plenty of help from Wikipedia, too).

Note: The audio for this episode is choppy, so please take note.

(Photo Credit: The Boston Globe)

Show Length: 39:44 (shortest episode in recent memory!)

Links:

• http://www.examiner.com/x-12767-US-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m5d22-Texas-State-Board-of-Education-approves-changes-to-school-guidelines-after-months-of-debate-video
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_100_Crime_Novels_of_All_Time
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_fiction
• Rogue Male
• http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6900-the-top-100-crime-novels-of-all-time
• Stieg Larsson
• Patricia Cromwell (Dr. Kay Scarpetta)
• Jean-Claude Izzo
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._I._Warshawski
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/primesuspect/
• Jakob Arjouni (http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/frankfurter-jakob-arjounis-happy-birthday-turk/)
• Swedish Crime Fiction: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_8?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=swedish+crime+fiction&sprefix=swedish+
• Sherlock Holmes
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Games_%28novel%29

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Synopsis:

Literary author John Wray joins the group for a round of bookbabbling, and ended staying for over 2 hours!  Learn a little more about this talented author of works such as The Right Hand of Sleep, Canaan’s Tongue and his latest novel, Lowboy.  Also, find out why he is compelled to maintain a ‘state of slight illness, indefinitely’.

Remember to check out part 1 of this interview.

(Photo Credit: Washington Post)

Show Length: 1:16:26

John Wray on the Net:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wray_%28novelist%29
• http://www.johnwray.net/
• twitter.com/john_wray

Novels:

• Canaan’s Tongue
• Lowboy
• The Right Hand of Sleep

Links:

• http://books.google.dk/books?id=7XuHeJ7mAf0C&dq=john+wray+The+Right+Hand+of+Sleep+won+prize%3F&source=bl&ots=DJ_G6I6reF&sig=Kcsx2UaRj2t6YLE5an5–IJQSqI&hl=da&ei=PCbLS5THJZKoOPSamKwG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB8Q6AEwBA
• Kurt Bauer
• http://www.amazon.de/Retter-Welt-John-Wray/dp/3498073621/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271605150&sr=8-3
• Peter Knecht
• http://www.amazon.com/Motherless-Brooklyn-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0571226329/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271606021&sr=8-1
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivka_Galchen
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lethem
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
• http://www.insound.com/Marmalade_Beautiful_Soup_MP3/productmain/p/INS35105/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Musil
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Hazzard
• http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/slopover-shirley-hazzards-the-bay-of-noon/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_the_Artist
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_%28character%29
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tutuola
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_in_the_Bush_of_Ghosts_%28novel%29
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Paul_Schreber
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haneke
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Ribbon
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walser_%28writer%29
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kurzeck
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Vlautin
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/20/northline-vlautin-review
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._T._Lowe-Porter
• Merete Pryds Helle
• http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/455278-Facts_Figures_2009_Revised.php
• Hans Henny Jann
• Perrudja
• Fluß Ohne Ufer
• Jahnn
• Reinhard Jirgl
• Arno Schmidt
• Thomas Vinterberg
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_About_Love
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Wendy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarino
• Brian Evenson "The Open Curtain"
• http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14120-true-love-cast-out-all-evil/
• Cornelis Vreeswijk

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Synopsis:

Literary author John Wray joins the group for a round of bookbabbling, and ended staying for over 2 hours!  Learn a little more about this talented author of works such as The Right Hand of Sleep, Canaan’s Tongue and his latest novel, Lowboy.  Also, find out why he is compelled to maintain a ‘state of slight illness, indefinitely’.

Remember to check out part 2 of this interview.

(Photo Credit: Complex.com)

Show Length: 1:01:19

Links:

• 3 Part Q&A with John Wray:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgp3hIAEvfc
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpG8GCvIHg&feature=related
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZwxbbOwuE8&feature=related
• John Wray reads to commuters
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3_3xzxIQVY

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Synopsis:

This week we’re introduced to the seemingly new form of storytelling called ‘sound novels’.  We find out a little more about this supposedly new medium, guided by a resident expert, Renee’s daughter, the Wilde Childe herself, Rosemary.  Along the way, Marcel treats us to a story of Amazon reviews abuse by the author himself.  Oh, and Stephenie Meyer.

Show Length: 58:39

Links::

• Higurashi When They Cry
• Umineko no Naku Koro ni
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_novel#Related_terms
• http://lucarinfo.com/alex/alexstories.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/music/mm/sound02.shtml
• Edward and Bella Pic Montage
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel
• http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/nm_playlist.html
• A literary mystery came to an end when the scholar blamed first his wife and then illness for anonymously savaging his rivals

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Synopsis:

The crew welcomes a visit from our favourite English farmer (Gem) as they discuss the recently announced iPad, and all the jokes that come with it.  Also, Marcel brings our attention to Electronic Arts’s new Dante’s Inferno, based on Dante’s classic of the same name.  Is having a half-naked monk killing monsters in the depths of hell a brilliant idea?  Also, Terry Pratchett and euthanasia, and find out what the Odyssey has in common with scantily-clad berries.

Show Length: 1:28:36

Mentioned

• The Death Of Bunny Munro, Nick Cave
• The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno, Dante Alighieri
• Romance of Three Kingdoms, Lo Kuan-Chung
• The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Franz Kafka
• Journey to the West: The Monkey King’s Amazing Adventures, Wu Cheng’en
• Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatski

Links

• Ribena Advert
• The Apple ‘iPad’
• The Onion – Steve Jobs with the iPad
• iPad vs Stone
• Willy Vlautin’s Northline, which has an accompanying soundtrack
• Marcel’s favourite pro-silent music advocate
• Shigekuni – Welcome to Hell
• Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal

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Synopsis:

Marcel and Lone get together for a duet, where they discuss the process of writing reviews.   As reviewers themselves, they compare notes on how reviews are done, the research put in, and influences.  Also discussed are JD Salinger, on his recent passing, and one of Lone’s true loves: Virginia Woolf.

Show Length: 52:36 mins

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Synopsis:

Gem and Lars return for this first show for the year, where we touched on quite a lot of things, surprisingly.  Music, films and of course, books.  This show was a little slow in going, but there are Michael Jackson jokes in there!

Show Length: 1:45:24 mins

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Length: 10:08 mins

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