EP20: The meanness of the '90s, bookstore events, and finger insertions

Hey hey! It's our 20th episode and we're celebrating by just doing the stuff we normally do: Talk about the books we're currently reading and wherever that takes us. And, yeah, we're at camp again, so it's a bit of old and a bit of new, with more reflections on the meanness of the 1990s (Sarah Vowell is apparently a voice actor now, in addition to being a writer), the brand-new "Calling for a Blanket Dance" (there's hope!), and Emily St. John Mandel (who can write like hell) and just how much authors hate doing book tour events. This leads us into how not to talk to your local bookstore as an aspiring author (it is, actually, about the money) and then the books we're currently working on, by Molly Tanzer (finger insertions), Gabrielle Zevin (gaming!), and Hiron Ennes (whose "Leach" debuts in September), with a final discussion on indie publishers and how and why we bring books into the Shop.