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book.record.beer
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Season 8! We can't believe it. We love you and thank you for listening. Please don't hesitate to send feedback and suggestions to our social media account on Instagram and others. And as always, Book.Record.Beer is hosted by Philadelphian teachers, writers and musicians, Nick Mehalick and Daniel DiFranco and we thank you for listening.
Episodes
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S8 E4 - The Shining | I Saw the TV Glow (OST) | Conshohocken - Nightmare on East Elm St.
A belated Halloween cast with our dear friend Kailey Tedesco! Dorothea Lasky's "The Shining" is the book, along with the soundtrack to the film "I Saw the TV Glow" and Conshohocken Brewery's "Nightmare on East Elm Street" pumpkin beer. Nick, Daniel and Kailey address art informing and used in…
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S8 E3 - We're Not So Different... | The Veils | Yards - Very Mega
The boys are back for this one! Nick Gregorio joins us to talk super heroes, male friendship, and what abv is just too much. Some fun facts about The Veils are dropped and Nick M. finds himself in a very mega way by the end. Cheers!
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S8 E2 -Infinite Possibilities Outside the Screen | Billy Joel | Victory Koffee Kake Ale
Billy Joel is back, along with male fragility washed down with a Tastykake infused brew. Shit got weird.
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S8 E1 - Flashes of Life | Fantasia (soundtrack) | Dogfish Head Nordic Spring
"Fantasia is the first music video" ... - Daniel Difranco Season 8 is going to be great. -NM
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S7 E7 - Dickens | Jim Nabors Christmas | Peppermint Espresso Martini
Our 7th annual Franco Christmas Cast!!! Such a pleasure to welcome Franco Fiorini into the basement for another holiday cast. We started with store brand (it's fine) peppermint espresso poured over vodka and called a martini and it was delish. We could not handle the album. At all. Nor will you,...
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S7 E6 - Bora Chung | Button:Pusher | Von Trapp Vienna Lager
A very special spooky cast with the always lovely Kailey Tedesco! Author of a new book of poetry about the mother of the Jersey Devil, Kailey picked an incredible cast for us. A translated story from Korean author Bora Chung, the 2014 offered from Button:Pusher, and the Von Trapp brewing keystone...
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S7 E5 - The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky | Poulenc Sonata for Violin and Piano | New Ridge Festbier
This month we're joined by Tik Tok sensation, Nick Perilli, to discuss cosmic horror, classical music, and a seasonal offering from New Ridge Brewing.
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S7 E4 - Leone:Notes on a Life | Mitamu | Peroni
A couple of paisanos dig into the gorgeous and anti-linear LEONE by Giandomenico and Colafella and somehow find their way to Mitamu's incredible debut Sunflower in the east, all while drinking that Italian standby, Peroni.
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S7 E3 - Felt in the Jaw | Flying Lesbians | Coors Banquet Beer
Nick and Dan dig into Kristen Arnett's debut short story collection "Felt in the Jaw" from Split Lip Press. Consumption and self indulgence with a suburban backdrop coupled with a dollop of copulation and (warning) sexual abuse. There was a lot to unpack. Nick then unveils the rare find from a...
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S7 E2 - The Shell Collector | Innervisions | Anchorage Brewing Company
A lil Nick and Dan cast! Do we need others? What makes a great artist? What kills a great artist? Can you dig it?
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S7 E1 - Meeting Gods... | Tom Waits | Pabst Blue Ribbon
A lil Nick and Dan cast to start our seventh season of Book Record Beer. This was a joy. Kirsten Reneau's gorgeous "Meeting Gods in Basement Bathrooms and Other Ways to Find Forgiveness" is a fucking gift of a chapbook and we dig in substantially to themes of loneliness and reconciliation, among...
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S6 E10 - Punching The Air | Dead Prez | Partake IPA
2 Nicks 1 cast. A BHM cast focused on a novel in verse entitled Punching the Air by one of the exonerated 5 Yusef Salaaam and poet Ibi Zoboi, Dead Prez's seminal 2000 album "Get Free" and Partake brewing's IPA. The Nick's chat about radical insight and change, the purpose of art, and what…
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S6 E9 - In God We Trust... | A Christmas Story... | Yuengling Hershey Porter
Our dear friend Franco Fiorini joins us once more for our annual holiday cast. The irking story for A Christmas Story in Jean Shepherds "In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash" is lapped up like an 8th glass of wine while Bing Crosby's manifest destiny of an album, "A Christmas Story" is run over…
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S6 E8 - Shirley Jackson | Twin Temple | Hail Santa
We welcome our dear friend Kailey Tedesco to the show and revel in her choices for this late halloween cast. Shirley Jackson's posthumous "The Possibility of Evil" is explored along with the satanic doo-wop stylings of Twin Temple and of course Tired Hands own "Hail Santa" with a fitting abc of...
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S6 Ep 7 — Me Talk Pretty | Domi and JD Beck | Weihenstephaner Fest
What's a 3 month delay between friends? Part technological snafu, part scheduling conflict, and a big part of laziness is bringing you this cast...finally! This time it's just a little ol' Nick and Dan talking David Sedaris and the heart of comedy, Domi and JD Beck and pushing the art forward (in...
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S6 Ep 6 - The Metamorphosis | Typhoon | Forest & Main
Beers! Fridge buzz! Buddies bullshitting over brews! After 18 months away from eachother, we dusted off our traveling mics to record in person. We met the poet Francis Daulerio at Forest & Main brewery and chatted about Kafka's The Metamorphosis, White Lighter's album Typhoon, and the various...
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S6 Ep 5 - All-Star Superman | Skinty Fia | Moralité
Up, up, and away! This month we're back at it with another graphic novel. This time it's the last Superman story you'll ever need to read with All-Star Superman. We follow it up with the lads out of Dublin, Fontaines D.C. with their third 3 release in 4 years, Skinty Fia. And finally, Daniel has…
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S6 E4 - If I Loved You... | Sorry | Spring
Robin Black's crushing collection "If I loved You, I'd Tell You This" is the subject of this cast as we dive into her title story. Notions of love and how we spend or share it are explored along with the the very real notion that god might be fiction himself. Canadian punks White Lung give us the...
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S6 E3 - The Low Low Woods | Sour | Bonfire Nights Smoked Lager
Morbid romance cast! Our dear friend Kailey Tedesco joins us with some killer picks in Carmen Maria Mechado's "The Low Low Woods" a graphic novel set in a burning Pennsylvania town. She also chose Olivia Rodrigo's album "sour" and Gregorio brings the beer with Workhorse Brewing's "Bonfire Nights"...
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S6 E2 - Everything Ravaged | Fever Ray | Arctic Berry Ale
We welcome very special guest Eric Weingarten for the Daddy episode! Hours before Nick Gregorio becomes a father and months after Nick M becomes one for a second time the crew gets together to discuss Wells Tower's only fiction collection "Everything Raged, Everything Burned," Fever Ray's...
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S6 E1 - The Ghost Ships | A Charlie Brown Christmas | Celebration
After a brief absence from good ol' Nick M, the boys are back Thin Lizzy style with their good friend Franco for our traditional holiday cast. Season six will be an interesting one pivoting to short story collections instead of novels. (diversify baby!!) We get into UK author Angela Carter's...
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S5 E11 - Savage Detectives | toe | Modelo Chelada
One of our favorites to date, the Nick's and Daniel dive into Roberto Bolano's seminal work, "The Savage Detectives" in the hopes of making sense of the enigmatic form and poetic prose. What it means to engage with art and ultimately become an artist is explored as well as the importance of…
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S5 E10 - Only Good Indians | Nighttime Stories | Cape May Salts
Native American myth starts this Gregorio cast with Stephan Graham Jones' acclaimed "The Only Good Indians" and moves the dudes to consider genre, sports writing, and who our Elk Head Woman might be. Pelican's "Nighttime Stories" is universally agreed to be the best soundtrack for the book,...
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S5 E9 Giovanni's Room | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | Ephemere
A very special Nick Mehalick cast, this one was done with pride. The prophet James Baldwin's brilliant "Giovanni's Room" frames the cast as the guys discuss masculinity, sexuality, the human condition, and what it means to be othered. Themes of invisible social contracts and just how dramatic we...
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S5 E8 - Solo Faces | Sparklehorse | Sours
This time it's a little ol' Nhick and Dan joined by guest mw brooke (who we call Michelle, spoiling her disguise). We talk James Salter's 1979 novel, Solo Faces, and the individual's pursuit to the self and the eternal...yeah, it was that kind of cast. We seque right into Sparklehorse's 2001…
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S5 E7 - Famous Men Who Never Lived | P.O.S. | Belgian Triple
A Gregorio cast!! A debut novel from K. Chess following a pair of displaced refugees from an alternate timeline on earth has the dudes contemplating the difficulty of sci-fi and how a spoonful of sugar really does help the medicine go down. Minnesota rapper/drummer P.O.S. kills on his 2012 album...
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S5 E6 - Luster | Lianne La Havas | Guinness
A vaxxed and hammered Daniel brings you this very special St. Patty's episode amplifying Black artists. Nuff said.
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S5 E5 - Mister Miracle | Nothing | Haze
A depression cast, a perspective cast, whatever you make of it this was a fun one for us. This cast was chosen by Nick Gregorio and explores an ode to Jack Kirby with Mister Miracle by Tom King, Philadelphia natives Nothing and their recent aptly titled release The Great Dismal, and finally...
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S5 E4 - If on a Winter's Night... | Juana Molina | Lakeshore Fog
Dear listener, find a comfortable seat or treadmill or walking path and prepare to get frustrated and enlightened with us as we unpack postmodernist Italo Calvino's seminal work, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. It's a book about reading, being a reader, writing and being a writer...but is it?…
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S5 E3 - Christmas Eve | If We Make It Through December | Corsendonk Christmas Ale
THEE Book.Record.Beer Holiday coast host Franco Fiorini joins the gents for this one as they dig into Gogol, your favorite authors favorite author, offering of a Ukrainian folk tale drenched in his own wit and told through the critical lens only Gogol could possess. They weep for the soul of a...
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S5 E2 - Lakewood | Frances the Mute | Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron
Season 5, Episode 2! The boys dive into Megan Giddings's sci-fi, horror, and very timely novel, LAKEWOOD, before discussing The Mars Volta's 2005 release, Frances the Mute. They wash down the heaviness of the book and record with Dogfish Head's Palo Santo Marron while pontificating the merits and...
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S5 E1 - Cask of Amontillado | Meliora | Dunkin Pumpkin - Scarecrow -Nosferatu
Season 5!!! We made it!!!! A Nick Gregorio production brings us Edgar Allen Poe's classic "The Cask of Amontillado while Daniel brings us the Poe expertise. We dive into Ghost's anti-metal metal album Meliora. And all the dudes have their own autumnal brews. Nick M. sips on Harpoon brewery and...
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S4 E12 - Death Industrial Complex | Shrines | Pumking
We finish our 4th year with one of our favorite writer's on as a guest! Kailey Tedesco, author of She Used to be on a Milkcarton, and Lizzie Speak, among others, chose Candice Wuehle's haunting "Death Industrial Complex," a poetry collection channeling late photographer Francesca Woodman. We…
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Indie Cast
This month's cast is brought to you by Gnick Gregorio. We've assembled in our respective studios with not one, but two guests! Author and editor of Trident Press, Nathaniel Kennon Perkins joins us to talk about indie publishing and his collection "The Way Cities Feel to Us Now." And, Cody Bluett…
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S4 E10 - Master and Margarita | In Name and Blood | Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Serendipity! Kismet! Fate! Chance! Like minds! Whatever the reason, or lack thereof, this was a very special cast. The gents has the very special pleasure of welcoming celebrated author Bud Smith to the cast for this one. Author of the novel "Teenager," memoir "Work" and short story collection...
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S4 E9 - On Fire | Bone & Marrow | Pure
Larry Brown was a firefighter for 16 years. Then he quit to write stories. This is a cast focused on his memoir about this time coupled with the lead singer of hardcore punk band Defeater's solo project "Alchoa" and Workhorse brewery's "Pure" light craft beer brewed using traditional Japanese…
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S4 E8 - Written on the Body | Grace | Tickle Parts
Remote Cast No. 3: This one was a Daniel cast. Two sexy and sad offerings are discussed in Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body" and Jeff Buckley's "Grace." The dudes are not unified in their beer endeavour due to social distancing, but Gnick dipped into his stockpile and drinks and talks...
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S4 E7 - Alphabet Squadron & Tie Fighter | 2112 | Light Speed
Gregorio dorkd out hard on this and gave us not one but TWO eu novels (one graphic!) in the Star Wars universe, Alphabet Squadron and Tie Fighter. He also picked Rush's seminal 2112 and a delightful beer named Light Speed from Toppling Goliath brewery. The dudes talk genre fiction, elitism, joy,...
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S4 E6 - The Myth of Sisyphus | Superunknown | Beer Suicide
Remote quarantine cast with Nick M. and Daniel went surprisingly well given the conditions and topic, suicide. Camus' essay regarding suicide as the essential philosophical question is explored along with his suggestion that we imagine Sisyphus happy. Can we? Can you? Listen and find out. We...
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S4 E5 - Beowulf | High Fantasy | Luscious Imperial Stout
Top 3 Book.Record.Beer casts brought together by the glory that is The Alchemist Luscious Imperial Stout. A graphic interpretation of the classic epic Beowulf and from there it only gets better. This was one for the ages, quite literally.
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S4 E4 The Narrow Door | Elliott Smith | St. Ides
Nick M. picked this one. Our first memoir in Paul Lisicky's "The Narrow Door," covers nearly 30 years of a life of love, loss, and friendship. Goddamn that is such a reductive summary. What we find in this beautiful work is the nuance of feeling that comes from a thoughtful and poetic observer of...
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S4 E3 - Last Night at the Lobster | Thanks for the Dance | Mon Cheri Stout
"Zero out of zero pieces of flair because we don't do flair on Cohen," -Franco. This quote sums up another incredible calendar year and Holiday Cast with our great friend Franco Fiorini. A gorgeous posthumous album from Leonard Cohen brought the dudes together after various takes on Stewart…
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S4 E2 - The Book of X | When We All Fall Asleep... | Black Mettle
Episode two gets dark. The Black Friday cast has little to do with consumerism (except for the obvious {cough} pop music {cough}) and more to do with the a grotesque darkness that one needs to engage with to get through this thing we call life. The Book of X is for all of us one of the great...
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S4 E1 - William Wilson (POE) | Loveless | Festbeer
It has been one of the great pleasures of my life to sit down with so many incredible people and talk about the things that keep life worth living every month. It has been 3 years and this feeling has yet to wane so I know it's got to be real. Unfortunately one of my favorites had to be absent…
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S3 E11 - Perfect Little World | Be He Me | Vermont Pilsner
The last episode of season 3 and Nick M. totally blew it on the book choice. Some teachable moments regarding what not to do when writing fiction permeates the first third of the cast but then he TOTALLY REDEEMS HIMSELF with the music choice of Annuals seminal debut lp "Be He Me." GNick then…
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S3 E10 - Johnson, Updike, Basho | Hot Snakes, Bad Religion, Christina Black | Perfect Day
After nearly 3 years the guys are finally revealing their back to school songs and stories. Each cast mate picked their favorite piece of literature to start the school year as well as the song that carries them into week one. Gregorio was kind enough to bring us back a Perfect Day IPA from his...
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S3 E9 - Potted Meat | Danzig | No Brainer
The fellas are joined by Jaime Fountaine—author of MANHUNT, host of Tire Fire, comedian, Danzig apologist—to talk Steven Dunn's POTTED MEAT, getting bumped for Janeane Garofalo, falling in holes, Danzig's lack of humor and self-awareness, and writing about those hard coming of age years. They…
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S3 E8 - The Frog King | Live Killers! | Summer Solstice
The boys get into Garth Greenwell's beautiful story of new love, travel, and the inevitable end to said love. The discuss the merits, or lack thereof, of live albums, specifically Queen's 1979 release entitled "Live Killers!" The end this celebration of all the is different and beautiful during...
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S3 E7 - General Motors | Smash | Circadian
The cast that almost wasn't! After an ER visit and a few weeks of recovery, all is well in the Book.Record.Beer family and the boys descend the Dupont street basement stairwell once more to embark on their FIRST POETRY CAST! Featuring the latest from philly poet Ryan Eckes, a look back at...
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S3 E6 - The Pearl | Led Zeppelin 1 | Czechvar
A classic canon cast. These are a few of (Nick M.'s) favorite things. The guys dig into Steinbeck's folk tale "The Pearl," Led Zeppelin I, and the original Czech lager "Czechvar" better know in the Czech Republic as the original Budweiser. Nick drops a surprise jam of "Good Times, Bad Times" into...
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Season 8! We can't believe it. We love you and thank you for listening. Please don't hesitate to send feedback and suggestions to our social media account on Instagram and others. And as always, Book.Record.Beer is hosted by Philadelphian teachers, writers and musicians, Nick Mehalick and Daniel DiFranco and we thank you for listening.
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