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On this episode, Christopher Hermelin, host of the podcast So Many Damn Books and I discuss his life that revolves around books, our shared love for stories on the continuum of weird, and we both go on a bit of a tear about over-comped books. You can also hear me get totally sucked in by something Christopher recommends.    So Many Damn Books The Roving Typist    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy's reading:  Are You Happy? By Lori Ostlund   Books Highlighted by Christopher: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray  Earthlings by Sayaka Murata  Bear by Marian Engle 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino  Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli  Heart of Junk by Luke Geddes The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters 17776 What Football will Look Like in the Future by Jon Bois Bluets by Maggie Nelson   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: The Husbands by Holly Gramazio  On the Calculation of Volume Book 1 by Solvej Balle, trans. Barbara J. Haveland  Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal  Nutshell by Ian McEwan  Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume Redwall by Brian Jacques  The Twits by Roald Dahl  The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender  Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender  Bunny by Mona Awad  We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad  The Magicians by Lev Grossman  The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman  Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link  Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, trans. Anton Hur  Mumbai New York Scranton by Tamara Shopsin  Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin  LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin  Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino  Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino  Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino  You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman  Good Girl by Aria Aber  Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman  Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang  The Bee Sting by Paul Murray  The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray  Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata  Bear by Julia Phillips Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli  Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli  Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn  The Secret History by Donna Tartt  If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio  The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin  The Martian by Andy Weir  The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern  The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas 

This week, Liberty and Emily discuss The Worst Ronin, Swiped, Lost Ark Dreaming, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Make this your most bookish summer yet with personalized reading recommendations from Tailored Book Recommendations! Our bibliologists (aka professional book nerds) are standing by to help you find your next favorite read. Get your recommendations via email, or opt to receive hardcovers or paperbacks delivered right to your door. And with quarterly or annual plans available, TBR has something for every budget. Get started today from just $18! Head to mytbr.co to subscribe. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Faith Schaffer Swiped by L.M. Chilton Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware Small Game by Blair Braverman You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Savages by Shirley Conran The Talk by Darrin Bell Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan Trust and Safety by Laura Blackett, Eve Gleichman Second Night Stand by Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 732, my conversation with author Alexandra Kleeman. The episode first aired on October 13, 2021. Kleeman is the author of the novel Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth Press). Her other books include the story collection Intimations and the debutnovel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among other publications, and her other writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the winner of the Berlin Prize and the Bard Fiction Prize, and was a Rome Prize Literature Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Staten Island and teaches at the New School. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Greenlight's longstanding tradition of celebrating the debuts of new literary voices, Cara Blue Adams graces our (virtual) stage to present her first story collection, You Never Get It Back—winner of the 2021 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. In these poised and perceptive linked stories set in rural New England and across the country—including Maine, Virginia, and New Mexico—the power of place shines through the journey of a young woman in search of vocation and belonging, grappling with social class and privilege, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having. Acclaimed novelist Alexandra Kleeman (You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine) joined Adams for a warm and searching conversation that delved into questions of craft, writing from experience, and what it means to “come of age” for young women today. (Recorded December 13, 2021)

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Happy belated Thanksgiving! Today, we're chatting about our "dream homes" which mostly revolves around having enough closet space (lol, we ❤️ NYC!) Also, tune in to hear Kayla announce her December book club pick, Always In December by Emily Stone. Then we have another backlist bonanza episode for you all, where we all discuss books that we really enjoyed but read a while ago. Plus, a conspiracy rabbit hole about Becky's backlist

Alexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among other publications, and her other writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the winner of the Berlin Prize and the Bard Fiction Prize, and was a Rome Prize Literature Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Staten Island and teaches at the New School. About Something New Under the Sun: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and connectedness in the age of environmental collapse and ecological awakening—a darkly unsettling near-future novel for readers of Don DeLillo and Ottessa Moshfegh ONE OF SUMMER'S BEST BOOKS: The Wall Street Journal • Time • Vulture • Parade • LitHub • Vanity Fair • Vogue • Refinery29 • Esquire “A darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality.”—Time “Genius.”—Los Angeles Times “Wildly entertaining and beautifully written.”—LitHub East Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are omnipresent, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick partners with Cassidy—after having been her reluctant chauffeur for weeks—and the two of them investigate the sun-scorched city's darker crevices, where they discover that catastrophe resembles order until the last possible second. In this often-witty and all-too-timely story, Alexandra Kleeman grapples with the corruption of our environment in the age of alternative facts. Something New Under the Sun is a meticulous and deeply felt accounting of our very human anxieties, liabilities, dependencies, and, ultimately, responsibility to truth.

Rachel was thrilled to have Isle McElroy on the podcast to chat about bagels and bookstores, plus cults and more. Their debut novel, The Atmospherians debuted in 2021. The Atmospherian is a satire which follows a cult to reform problematic men. (Please note that this episode was recorded using a different first name for the author.) Isle's reading recommendations: Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman The Answers by Catherine Lacey Darryl by Jackie Ess All links today go to their favorite Houston, TX indie bookstore: Brazos. Check out Isle's novel, The Atmospherians, and connect with them on Twitter. You can find more about Blind Date for a Book on Twitter or Instagram as well.

We talk about the woefully underreported story of Daniel Hale, who leaked The Drone Papers to the press, and was arrested under the Espionage Act in May 2019. We go on to discuss whistleblowers, dissent, the persecution of Eugene Debs, US drone programs, and more.CORRECTION: The most successful third party run in US history was the Progressive Party in 1912, not Eugene Debs' Socialist Party run during that same year.Stop the Prosecution of Drone Whistleblower Daniel HaleTell Lawmakers to Reform the Espionage ActGeneral RecommendationsJNM's Recommendation: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine & Intimations by Alexandra Kleeman (@AlexKleeman)JD's Recommendation: The HostFurther Reading, Viewing, ListeningEx-NSA official charged with leaking classified drone documentsFormer intelligence analyst charged Government Moves to Block Alleged Drone Whistleblower's DefenseVIDEO: Trump Steps up War on WhistleblowersDaniel Hale arrested for being the source of The Drone PapersJoe Biden told countries there'd be 'consequences'Joe Biden’s Love Affair With the CIAAll the President’s WhistleblowersThe Espionage Act's Troubling OriginsWhen America’s Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War ILocationless LocationsEvery show-related link is corralled and available here.Heat Death of the Universe - @heatdeathpodPlease send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: heatdeathoftheuniversepodcast@gmail.comOutro MusicPete Seeger"Which Side Are You On?"Live in Sweden 1968

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This week, Liberty discusses two great older books, including You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot's Recommended podcast.  Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Sweetland by Michael Crummey The Return by Rachel Harrison

Amanda and Jenn discuss funny book club picks, audiobooks in translation, historical fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Audible, Kingsbane by Claire Legrand and Birthday by Meredith Russo. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher.   Questions 1. Hey Amanda and Jenn!! Long time listener first time requester! Looking for a book to recommend for my book club. Traditionally we just draw from a book jar of other recommendations that we’ve done and let the Fates decide but for the last four months we’ve had a member pick three books and we picked from there. Well we’ve read a lot of ‘serious’ books in that time which included Circe, The Outsiders, and Big Red Tequila (which while not as heavy as the others still was a crime thriller so the humor wasn’t all that heavy). The current pick is All the Light We Cannot See which sounds great but again will be heavy and serious. So I think we’re going to need a bit of a humor break. We have read our fair share of that such as Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and How to Make White People laugh so books in that vein will work. Most of us do ‘book on a budget’ though so backlists are great as well. It is a bit time sensitive as I will need a suggestion by the beginning of June so thanks for any advice you can give! -Paige   2. I love your podcast and so appreciated (and utilized!) the recommendations you gave me a few months ago when I traveled to France. I am in a bit of a reading rut right now and would love some help. Lately I have mostly just been reading romance, fantasy, or young adult and want to mix it up but don’t know where to begin. I love anti-heroes, fast-moving plots, realistic relationships between characters, and a healthy smattering of jokes. I try very hard to only read books by women and/or people of color, so if you could recommend something that sticks to that, it would be deeply appreciated. Thank you! -Hillary   3. I’m a grad student in experimental psychology, so I read a lot of scientific papers and books. When I relax, I love to read light and easy YA Fiction, but I also love books that have some depth to them. I am one of those people who never got over Harry Potter, since it is easy for me to read but there are always new little details to discover. I also read and enjoyed The Hunger Games, Divergent, the Uglies series, etc., but none of them quite stood up to Harry Potter for me. However, I’ve recently found the Books of Babel series by Josiah Bancroft and absolutely fell in love with them. I have also been voraciously reading everything by Maureen Johnson (thanks to one of your recommendations). While I’m loving the Maureen Johnson stuff, I prefer things like the Books of Babel that have a little more sociological and psychological depth to them. I also love books like 1984 and Invisible Man (the one by Ralph Ellison), but I don’t have the mental energy to devote to books that are too heavy. For me, Josiah Bancroft hit the perfect balance of ease and depth. What would you recommend? Thank you! -Sephra   4. Hi there! I’ll be travelling to Vienna and Stockholm for the first time in July to visit some friends. I’ve never been, so I’m hoping you could recommend some books set in these cities that have a strong sense of place, where the city itself is a character. I’m open to most genres except horror (I’m a scaredy cat of the highest order) and am generally a reluctant YA reader; I also haven’t been able to muster up any interest in Stieg Larsson’s books but if you tell me they fit the bill, I will be game to give it a go. Thank you so much in advance! -Rae   5. After going through several life changes I am finding myself questioning everyone I used to be so sure of. Religion, politics, family and relationships… I’m changing my mind and beliefs on all of them. This is very unsettling to say the least! Do you have any recommendations for me? Perhaps memoirs of people who have walked through this particularly confusing path? (No fiction, please.) -Valerie   6. Hi! I’m an English teacher and I read so much with my kids at school, that I’ve lost touch with reading for fun recently, instead numbing my brain with Netflix as soon as I get home. I’d love to find a book or two that gets me excited again. A few of my favorite books are The Phantom Tollbooth, The Little Prince, Don Quixote, and The Magic Mountain. I also love the dark, sardonic wit of Dorothy Parker. I’m currently enjoying The Lonesome Bodybuilder. (I have a very detailed GoodReads profile, so that might give some clues, too…) I’d prefer adult fiction or middle grade. I’m not anti-YA, but I spend enough time with angst-riddled teens at work, that I’d like something different at home. Thanks!! -Kirsten   7. Hi Ladies! Books in translation is a long-standing hole in my reading. I was hoping for some recommendations for good audiobooks in translation. I read all over the place and don’t have a specific genre in mind. I love genre fiction and nonfiction: some recent favorite listens are Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, Stiff by Mary Roach, Circe by Madeline Miller, and Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw. A queer angle is a huge plus, but not required! Thank you! -Lauren   Books Discussed So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows Boneshaker by Cherie Priest The Storm Runner by JC Cervantes Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark The Serious Game by Hjalmar Soderberg, trans by Eva Claeson Sisi series (The Accidental Empress #1) by Allison Pataki Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, trans Ann Goldstein We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen Post: Audiobooks in translation

This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine. This week's episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders.  

This month the Ark Audio Book Club discuss Alexandra Kleeman's debut novel "You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine". It's a story of bodies, symbols, shark documentaries, ephemeral cakes and obscured Christian cults. But is it good? This episode features Neus Casanova Vico, Sarah Ommanney, Macon Holt and is hosted by Giovanna Alesandro. You can check out Macon's essay inspired by the novel here http://arkbooks.dk/the-ephemeral-body-and-meaningless-symbols-in-alexandra-kleemans-you-too-can-have-a-body-like-mine/

Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1991. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Etisalat Prize for Literature. She is completing a PhD on the West African Student's Union at King's College London. Her latest novel is Welcome to Lagos. Alexandra Kleeman is a NYC-based writer of fiction and nonfiction, and a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, Guernica, and Gulf Coast, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in Harpers, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. She is the author of the short story collection Intimations, and a debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In our one hour and 22 minute long Best of 2016 episode we talk about our favourite reads from the past year, what it even means for a book to be “best”, how we are not very good at tracking our reading, and what to read when you’re on painkillers. [Our apologies for the sound quality (as usual), someday we’ll get everything to work perfectly.]  [Also, we're now on Stitcher and Google Play!] In this episode  Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi  Favourites from things we read for the Book Club  Fiction Anna: His Majesty’s Dragon - Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik (Historical Fantasy) Runner up: A Short History of Indians in Canada: Stories by Thomas King (Aboriginal/Indigenous/First Nations) Jessi: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Historical Fantasy) Matthew: The Girl With Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson (Historical Fantasy) And Ride a Mule the short story set after the novel Runner up: The excerpt of Red Spider White Web by Misha Nogha from Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (Aboriginal/Indigenous/First Nations) Meghan: Your Republic is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim (Spies/Espionage) Runner up: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Historical Fantasy) Runner up: Godless but Loyal to Heaven by Richard Van Camp (Religious Fiction) Non-Fiction Anna: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed (Self Help) Jessi: Ghosts: A Haunted History by Lisa Morton (Paranormal/Supernatural Non-Fiction) Runner up: National Geographic Ultimate Guide to Supernatural Places: Close Encounters, Haunted Houses, and Other Spooky Hot Spots Around the World by Sarah Bartlett (Paranormal/Supernatural Non-Fiction) Matthew: Corporate Spies: the Pizza Plot (article) by Adam L. Penenberg and Marc Barry (Spies/Espionage) Meghan: Yurei: The Japanese Ghost by Zack Davisson (Paranormal/Supernatural Non-Fiction) Runner up: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Aboriginal/Indigenous/First Nations)  Favourites from everything else [We cheated so bad that we had to split Fiction favourites into Prose and Comics.] Fiction (prose) Anna: Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop (and the entire The Others series) Jessi: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Matthew: Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher Meghan: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Fiction (comics) Anna:  Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Roc Upchurch The new series of Rat Queens comes out March 1st Article about Roc Upchurch (the original artist on Rat Queens) being arrested for domestic violence Jessi: This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki Matthew: Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang Meghan: Yowamushi Pedal, Go! Vol. 1 by Wataru Watanabe  Non-Fiction Anna: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton (and a bunch of his other books) Jessi: On the Farm by Stevie Cameron Matthew: Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles) by Sarah Andersen (an internet monster) Meghan: My Body Is Yours: A Memoir by Michael V. Smith  Other books mentioned Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Wikipedia) Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Wikipedia) Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird and Spicy Pulps edited by Sheldon Jaffery Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Recommended) The Birth of Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki Princeless, Vol. 1: Save Yourself by Jeremy Whitley and Mia Goodwin Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona Eyeshield 21, Vol. 1: The Boy With the Golden Legs by Riichiro Inagaki and Yusuke Murata (Canada is shown to have lost to Germany 63-0 at the beginning of chapter 313) (Recommended) The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier “Raina Telgemeier’s ‘Ghosts’ has a 500,000 copy first printing” United States of Delirium: The Story of the Race Across America by David Houghton was the book about endurance cycling that Meghan mentioned.  Links and Other Things Reading 500 Graphic Novels in a year “DragonForce are a British power metal band” (Wikipedia) Ju-on: The Grudge (Wikipedia) The Ring (Wikipedia) Six-day bicycle racing  (Wikipedia) Akihabara (the “otaku” district of Tokyo) (Wikipedia) The Best and Worst Manga panel Matthew went to at San Diego Comicon  Questions How do you define “best”? What were your favo(u)rite reads of 2016? What are your favo(u)rite “best of” lists?  Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all our favo(u)rite books we read in 2016, follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook Group! Join us again on Tuesday, January 17th, when we discuss Coming-of-Age books!  

Doctor-approved: Be mean to your baby! Is your first baby just practice? Morgan foreswears Barry’s revision advice. Focusing on one project at a time. Followup on Barry’s Cheat Method for Revision and a discussion of what you need to know about your protagonist before you start writing. Links: Scrivener (app for writers on Mac and Windows) Rules for Writing Multiple Books at Once — Barry Lyga Dot Com Twin Peaks -strange path of Albert Rosenfield -fragment - YouTube Morgan Recommends: The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound 'Kingfisher' Girls Will Dance Their Way Into Your Heart : NPR Barry is Reading: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound Rate us on iTunes

Alexandra Kleeman is the guest. Her debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, is available now from Harper. Alexandra is from Boulder, so we have that in common. Not that I'm "from" Boulder, but I did live there for eight years, went to college there, and so on. The feeling I came away with after talking to her is that she's an unusually kind person. She's one of those people who emanates goodness. Just sweet as could be. And behind that sweetness is a really fierce intelligence. Her book has been getting all kinds of raves, and Ben Marcus called it "the fiction of the future" or something along those lines, and he tends to be right about those kinds of things, so...a very promising start to a literary career. And I'm happy I got to talk with Alexandra just as things are getting under way.  In today's monologue I talk about the holidays. And jury duty. And then at the tail end of the show I talk about some movies I've seen recently.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alexandra Kleeman takes So Many Damn Books down the rabbit hole as Drew and Christopher discuss her novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, as well as the novel The Blind Owl. Everyone gets unsettled. 15 Seconds of a Song: Lucy Rose - Middle of the Bed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So after a month away, Chad and Tom are back, discussing the books they read over the summer and breaking down jacket copy for a number of recent books. They're both astounded by how many meaningless phrases they come across (and references to how a book is "necessary"), and also talk about when and how to frame a particular author. Tom rants about how we're reaching the bottom of the barrel in list-making, and Chad gives some love to the Iceland Men's National Team.    Also, after some befuddling technical difficulties, the podcast is back up at iTunes, so please tell all your friends and family to subscribe and rate us. We're determined to break into the top 200 of literary podcasts . . .    To listen to this podcast, either subscribe via iTunes at the link above, or just copy this link to add our show's feed to any podcast app: http://threepercent.libsyn.com/rss   And, as always, feel free to send any and all comments or questions to threepercentpodcast@gmail.com.   Finally, here's the (hopefully) complete list of books and authors discussed on this week's podcast:   Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas by Christian Kracht Lovers on All Saints' Day by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman  You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman 3 to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette The Dead Mountaineer's Inn by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Definitely Maybe by Arkady and Boris Sturgatsky Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano Ann Tenna by Marisa Acocella Marchetto  Oreo by Fran Ross Submission by Michel Houellebecq The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink How's the Pain? and A26 and The Front Seat Passenger by Pascal Garnier Billy and Girl by Deborah Levy Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks Traitors to All by Giorgio Scerbanenco Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaître  Savage Seasons by Kettly Mars

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, George, Rising Strong, and more new releases.