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234: Favorite Reads of 2024
Christopher chooses some favorites from the reading year that just passed, and answers some questions from the Patreon patrons. Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book...
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233: Emily Habeck (SHARK HEART: A LOVE STORY) & Jenny Offill’s DEPT. OF SPECULATION
Emily Habeck swims on in to chat the book Christopher can’t stop recommending to anyone and everyone, Shark Heart: A Love Story. Thrill to this episode where we get...
232: Holiday Gift Guide 2024 (with Sarah!)
If you do something two years in a row, that makes it a yearly tradition right? With that in mind, here’s the very traditional Holiday Gift Guide episode. I’m...
231: Rosalind Brown (PRACTICE) & Lisa Robertson’s THE BAUDELAIRE FRACTAL
Rosalind Brown makes her airwaves debut in this one, talking about her debut novel Practice, which means talking about Shakespeare, and using white space on the page, and the...
230: Ten Years of So Many Damn Books (with Drew Broussard)
Our old pal Drew drops into the Damn Library, in Brooklyn, in person, for the first time since February 2020, to celebrate 10 years of So Many Damn Books....
229: Lena Valencia (MYSTERY LIGHTS) & Muriel Spark’s DRIVER’S SEAT
Lena Valencia drops by the Damn Library, physically, and it’s a real nice time complete with a flashing drink you can’t see, because this is a podcast. Lena and...
228: Lev Grossman (THE BRIGHT SWORD) & Phillip K Dick’s UBIK
Lev Grossman returns to the podcast after a nine year break. That’s a long time! Since he was here last, he wrote his Arthurian magnum opus, The Bright Sword,...
227: Holly Gramazio (THE HUSBANDS) & Zito Madu’s THE MINOTAUR AT CALLE LANZA
Holly Gramazio drops by via the magic of Zoom to talk her magical summer blockbuster of a book, The Husbands. She gets into its origin as a computer game,...
226: Kate Slotover (THE BOOK CLUB REVIEW) discusses Helene Hanff’s LETTER FROM NEW YORK and Joseph Mitchell’s UP IN THE OLD HOTEL
Kate Slotover, host of The Book Club Review podcast, joins me in the Damn Library all the way from London! Drinks are had, New York is discussed, along with...