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The Book Report
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The Book Report is a weekly literary talk show presented by the Millions, and hosted by Michael Schaub and Janet Potter.
Episodes
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Sequels We'd Like To Discover
Sequels We'd Like To Discover by The Book Report
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We Hate Dune
We Hate Dune by The Book Report
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Likable Literary Villains
Likable Literary Villains by The Book Report
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Back 2 School w/ Flannery O'Connor and Ernest Hemingway
Back 2 School w/ Flannery O'Connor and Ernest Hemingway by The Book Report
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Get in Trouble & On the Abolition of All Political Parties
Welcome to a new episode of The Book Report presented by The Millions! This week, Janet and Mike discuss political apathy and spooky teenagers. Like they do every week. But this time, we captured it on video! Discussed in this episode: Get in Trouble by Kelly Link, On the Abolition of All…
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Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin and Museum of Mistakes by Julia Wertz
Welcome to a new episode of The Book Report presented by The Millions! This week, Janet and Mike realize they’ve been reading nothing but post-apocalyptic novels about dying people in war-torn countries, and it is affecting their mental health. So Janet talks about a book with “fart” in the title...
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But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer
This week, Janet discusses a book about jazz. As the great Louis Armstrong once said, "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. Ha ha ha ha ha! I'm just kidding. Jazz is a performance-based musical genre that originated in the African-American communities of the early 20th century, and...
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Find Me by Laura van den Berg
This week, Janet and Mike discuss Laura van den Berg’s Find Me, while traversing a hellish post-apocalyptic landscape, Mad Max-style. Will they turn on each other by the end? There’s only one way to find out. But yes. Yes, they will. Discussed in this episode: South by Southwest, Kansas, disease,...
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Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
This week, Janet and Mike discuss Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. It is about a young woman who may be dead. But maybe she’s not. Or maybe she was not dead at the beginning of the book but is dead at the end. We’re not entirely...
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Marry, Blog, Kill
Welcome to The Book Report presented by The Millions! This week we decided to play Marry, Blog, Kill, the literary party game sweeping the nation. Discussed in this week's episode: social media, Judy Blume, John Green, JK Rowling, marriage, shit getting real, Harry Potter, Gryffindor, Jon Ronson,...
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Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle
In this episode, we take a long look into Janet's middle-school psyche, the hairstyles of manic pixie dream boys, and one of the most acclaimed young adult books in a long while: Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle. Also discussed in this episode: religion, gender roles,...
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Descent by Tim Johnston
This week, Janet has some issues about Tim Johnston's Descent. But how will her concerns affect Mike, who, as a man, is the central protagonist of this show? Also discussed in this episode: Colorado, kidnapping, going quietly insane, disappearing mothers, the easily bruised and all-important male...
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Turtleface and Beyond by Arthur Bradford and Wilson by A. Scott Berg
This week, Janet and Mike talk about a man named Georgie who makes bad decisions and a man named Woodrow (well, Tommy, actually) who made good decisions. For the most part. Discussed in this episode: Turtleface and Beyond: Stories by Arthur Bradford, Wilson by A. Scott Berg, Christmas trees, wood...
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The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette
This week, Mike talks about Jean-Patrick Manchette's The Mad and the Bad, and we beg American publishers to bring more violent nihilism to the literary scene. We are kind, gentle people, but sometime we like reading about murderers, and there is nothing wrong with that. At least according to…
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An Interview with John Safran
This week Janet talks to Australian documentarian and now crime writer John Safran about his new book, God'll Cut You Down, in which he moves to Mississippi for a year, befriends a murderer, and has no idea how to write about it.
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A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Happy New Year, everybody, and welcome back to The Book Report presented by The Millions! We hope that all of you had a great 2014. But we know you didn’t, because 2014 was a stupid garbage year, and nothing good happened, except the founding of The Book Report presented by The Millions, which...
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A Year in Reading 2014
Discussed in this episode: tours de force, Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra, Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, An Untamed State by Roxane Gay, Constance by Patrick McGrath, Joyce Carol Oates, Woody Allen, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov…
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God'll Cut You Down by John Safran & Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon
Discussed in this episode: God’ll Cut You Down by John Safran, cowboy hats, God, whiskey, white supremacists, murder, Australia, Mississippi, The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm, Truman Capote, Walmart gift cards, Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon, nature, God (again), animals, death,...
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My Secret Life in the Movies and The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie
In this holiday-themed episode, Janet Potter and Michael Schaub discuss the two most important things about Thanksgiving: movies and pie. Janet recommends three pie cookbooks: The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie by Paula Haney, The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book by Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen, and...
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The Book Report is a weekly literary talk show presented by the Millions, and hosted by Michael Schaub and Janet Potter.
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