Podcast appearances and mentions of dane huckelbridge

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: Kindle samples and getting new indie bookstores Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: six star books to which we will take no criticism from anyone The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  1:01 - Ad For Ourselves 1:18 - Currently Reading Patreon 1:34 - An Unlikely Story 2:35 - @anunlikelystory on Instagram 3:37 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week 6:48 - Literally, A Bookshop 7:54 - @Literallybookshop on Instagram 8:52 - Our Current Reads 9:23 - The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley (Meredith) 16:32 - All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim (Kaytee) 16:40 - Tucson Festival of Books 2025 19:52 - Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manasala 20:13 - This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab (Meredith) 21:47 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab 23:20 - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 23:49 - They Came for the Schools by Mike Hixenbaugh (Kaytee) 24:11 - Southlake Podcast 27:46 - Past Crimes by Jason Pinter (Meredith) 29:44 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 31:06 - Recursion by Blake Crouch 31:40 - The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues by Beth Lincoln (Kaytee) 31:49 - The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln 35:11 - Our Six Star Reads 36:08 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell 37:29 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 37:33 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 40:17 - Happy Place by Emily Henry 42:32 - The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher 42:37 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 42:38 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden 42:41 - The Stand by Stephen King 42:43 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 42:44 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 44:44 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle 45:00 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel 45:09 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge 45:13 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 45:14 - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson 45:17 - Babel by R.F. Kuang 45:38 - Lobizona by Romina Garber Russell 45:43 - Cazadora by Romina Garber Russell 49:14 - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman 49:49 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 51:22 - Meet Us At The Fountain 51:43 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live 51:53 - I want everyone to listen to episode 188 of Sarah's Bookshelves Live if you enjoy fantasy reading. (Meredith) 51:54 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live episode 188 53:09 - I wish for a book aggregator that would house all book covers of all books so we could compare easily and find the ones we want to purchase quickly without having to browse multiple sites. (Kaytee) 54:09 - Greenwood by Michael Christie Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. March's IPL comes to you from our tried and true partner, An Unlikely Story in Plainville, MA. Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

Dane Huckelbridge, author of "Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit, explains how Bourbon whiskey was the American experience. This full interview from a 2014 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts.

On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: reading genetics and scary saturation Current Reads: backlist gems and TBR surprises and bookish serendipity Deep Dive: we visit The Wayback Machine to give you books we think would go viral on Bookstagram and BookTok if they came out today The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!  We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you'd prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . 2:12 - Bookish Moment of the Week 6:18 - Current Reads 6:51 - Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (Kaytee) 7:34 - Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu 7:50 - The Sorta Awesome Podcast 10:14 - Read-Aloud Revival 11:07 - Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer  (Meredith) 13:33 - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker 17:18 - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Kaytee) 17:27 - CR Season 3: Episode 47 - The Listener Press 17:31 - The Twin Paradox by Charles Wachter 21:25 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (Meredith) 25:55 - Matrix by Lauren Goff  30:20 - A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf (Kaytee) 33:17 - Daphne by Josh Malerman  34:33 - Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates (Meredith) 39:11 - From Below by Darcy Coates 39:54 - Deep Dive: Backlist Books The Would Go Viral Today 40:47 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 41:20 - The Selection by Kiera Cass 41:35 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 43:01 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram 43:04 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge 44:40 - The Last One by Alexandra Oliva  44:56 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel  45:47 - Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman 46:48 - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 48:12 - In the Woods by Tana French 48:58 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 49:45 - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards  51:31 - The Villa by Nora Roberts 52:38 - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 53:37 - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 53:49 - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 53:50 - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell 54:31 - Meet Us At The Fountain I wish every reader would keep a simple reading log. (Kaytee) I wish November and December could get here quicker for some highly anticipated releases. (Meredith) 57:18 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny 57:41 - Three Pines Series Trailer Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcastand www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

This week we cover the story of the Champawat tiger, the most deadly animal on record. In this week's episode Danielle tells us the tragic tale of this tiger, the lives she claimed and how it all began. A morbid story no doubt, but there is so much more to it than that. Underneath its terrifying outer skin, this story has layers of discussion regarding the repercussions of irresponsible wild land management, a sobering history of hunting in India and consequences of our collective actions - but with a twist. Jim Corbett was the Champawat's deadliest adversary, but eventually, he stood as her fiercest protector. Learn how Jim Corbett National Park came to be, and what we can do to be better stewards of our planet and those who share it with us through one of the most tragic stories in history. (Highly recommended) Book for this episode: No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History. For a deeper dive into Jim Corbett and the Tigers of Asia, Jim Corbett National Park and their conservation efforts as well as what you can do to help wild tigers, please visit Jim Corbett National Park and WWF  We love our National Parks and we know you do too but when you're out there, remember to enjoy the view but watch your back. Please take a moment to rate and subscribe from wherever you're listening to NPAD! Become part of our Outsider family on Patreon to gain access to ad-free episode, bonus content and more. Follow our socials Instagram, Facebook , and Twitter. To share a Trail Tale, suggest a story, access merch and browse our book recommendations - head over to our website.  Thank you so much to our partners, check them out! Chirp Wheel: 10% off  Prose: 15% your first order Apostrophe: $15 your first visit  Sources: No Beast So Fierce by Dane Huckelbridge, WWF, Jim Corbett National Park, Wikipedia 

In the spirit of saying all the goodbyes to 2020, let us take you on an adventure to the 1920's for all things gin & a little bit whiskey. PLUS, a special guest and super friend/fan join us for this fun and lighthearted episode. This is our third and final episode in our Gin in the '20s series. Don't cry in your G&T just yet, we have tons of great content planned for 2021! References used for this episode: Andrew, Evans for History.com - “10 Things You Should Know About Prohibition.” https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-should-know-about-prohibition Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit - by Dane Huckelbridge de Kergommeaux, Davin for The Whiskey Wash - “Canadian Whisky: Things You Should Know From The Expert.” https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-styles/canadian-whiskey/canadian-whisky-things-you-should-know-from-the-expert/ Encyclopedia Brittanica - Texas Guinan. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Texas-Guinan Miller, Jeffrey for Smithsonian Magazine - “The Modern Craft Cocktail Movement Got Its Start During Prohibition.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/modern-craft-cocktail-movement-got-its-start-during-prohibition-180971265/ Wikipedia - “1920s” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s Wortman, Marc for Smithsonian Magazine - “This Tiny French Archipelago Became America’s Alcohol Warehouse During Prohibition.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tiny-french-archipelago-became-americas-illegal-warehouse-during-prohibition-180967868/

Leslie Zemeckis shares the amazing life of Mabel Stark, the world’s first female tiger trainer. Dane Huckelbridge tells the story of the man-eating tiger of Champawat.

In this episode Matt Crawford speaks with author Dane Huckelbridge about his book, No Beast S Fierce. This is the insane story about a tiger that killed and ate 436 people in Nepal and India in the early 20th century. The legendary hunter Jim Corbett is sent to hunt this man-eater down and the chase begins. While this is truly a story about a tiger it also has so many other facets that I did not expect, socio-economic, racial, deforestation just to name a few. You will come for the tiger but you will stay for the rich layers of this story. Get cozy and read away!

At the turn of the 20th century, a rogue tiger terrorized the villages of Nepal and northern India. By the time British hunter Jim Corbett was called in, it had killed 434 people. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe Corbett's pursuit of the elusive cat, and his enlightened efforts to address the source of the problem. We'll also revisit a Confederate spy and puzzle over a bloody ship. Intro: Ralph Beaman devised a sentence that ends with 15 prepositions. The stones of Pennsylvania's Ringing Rocks Park chime when struck. Sources for our feature on the Champawat tiger: Jim Corbett, Man-Eaters of Kumaon, 1944. Dane Huckelbridge, No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History, 2019. Hemanta Mishra, Bones of the Tiger: Protecting the Man-Eaters of Nepal, 2010. Nayanika Mathur, Paper Tiger, 2016. Sujeet Kumar Singh, et al., "Understanding Human–Tiger Conflict Around Corbett Tiger Reserve India: A Case Study Using Forensic Genetics," Wildlife Biology in Practice 11:1 (June 2015), 1-11. Iti Roychowdhury, "Man Eaters and the Eaten Men: A Study of the Portrayal of Indians in the Writings of Jim Corbett," Research Journal of English Language and Literature 5:1 (January-March 2017), 37-41. A.J.T. Johnsingh, "Status and Conservation of the Tiger in Uttaranchal, Northern India," AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 35:3 (May 2006), 135-137. Jim Doherty, "Tigers at the Gate," Smithsonian 32:10 (January 2002), 66-67. Sarah Zielinski, "How a Tiger Transforms Into a Man-Eater," Science News, March 19, 2019. Adele Conover, "The Object at Hand," Smithsonian 26:8 (November 1995), 28. "Jim Corbett Dies; Big-Game Hunter; Told of His Exploits Against Indian Killer Tigers in 'Man-Eaters of Kumaon,'" New York Times, April 21, 1955. "Champawat Residents Remember Jim Corbett on Birth Anniversary," Hindustan Times, July 26, 2017. "The Remarkable Legacy of Tiger Jim," Independent, Nov. 1, 2007, 38. Michael T. Kaufman, "Tiger, Protected From Man, Flourishes Again in India; The Tiger, Protected, Prospers in India Tiger Cubs Live Longer A Special Counting Method," New York Times, Sept. 16, 1980. Christine Hauser, "Number of Tigers in the Wild Is Rising, Wildlife Groups Say," New York Times, April 11, 2016. "A Hunter Who Went on to Save the Hunted," The Hindu, Nov. 10, 2018. "Remembering Corbett! A Legend, Man of Many Parts," [New Delhi] Pioneer, July 26, 2015. "The Tiger Hunter Who Earned His Stripes," Sunday Telegraph, Oct. 13, 2019, 16. Vineet Upadhyay, "Jim Corbett's 100-Yr-Old Rifle Returns Home to His Village," Economic Times, April 6, 2016. Dane Huckelbridge, "How to Ensure Tigers Come Roaring Back," Globe and Mail, Feb. 9, 2019, O.5. D.B.N. Murthy, "It Is Jim Corbett's Country," Alive 365 (March 2013), 48-50. Gregory Crouch, "'No Beast So Fierce' Review: The Making of a Killer," Wall Street Journal, Feb. 4, 2019. R. Raj Rao, "'No Beast So Fierce: The Champawat Tiger and Her Hunter, the First Tiger Conservationist' by Dane Huckelbridge: In the Forests of the Night," The Hindu, May 11, 2019. Bill Purves, "History's Deadliest Single Animal? Story of the Killer Indian Tiger and the Man Who Hunted It Down Detailed in New Book," South China Morning Post, March 6, 2019. Listener mail: The Patreon posts mentioned in the listener mail segment are "Greenhow Misgivings" (discussing the problem) and "Followup to 'Greenhow Misgivings'" (describing the measures we took). This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Steven Jones. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Dane Huckelbridge, author of our July book, Castle of Water, calls Brookes from Paris to talk all things writing, reading and running low on contact lenses.

Books with Brookes book club members Laura and Tracey join to discuss plane crashes, wearing contacts and how octopuses are the devil.

Did rice crops create the most prolific maneater in recorded human history? Your hosts delve in to the story of the Champawat tiger, a creature which terrorized Indian and Nepalese villages for a period of ten years, evading large-scale efforts to hunt it down and ultimately killing an estimate of 436 people. Featuring the factors which make a maneater, a real-life musical instrument straight out of Hannibal, Amelia dunking on the British Empire, and Sarah dunking on Amelia for taking 10 minutes in the middle of the episode to look up a statistic.

Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds this week to chat about all sorts of bookish goodness! Continuing Important announcement: we have a great discount code to share with you from The Bookshelf Thomasville! For a few final days (through June 30th), you can get anything on their website for 10% off using the code CURRENTLYREADING (wow!!!) This would be a great time to pick up a Shelf Subscription for yourself or others! You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: a book devouring, and validating your summer reading choices Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We’re all over the place in genre, age range, and opinions this week, so get out those library cards! For our deep dive this week, we are teasing our new segment for Season 2! Belly Up to the Book Bar will b in our regular rotation next season, and we cannot wait to share it with you, listeners! Thanks to Megan Goodell for being our guinea pig “test customer”. As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to press into every reader’s hands. This week’s pick include some historical fiction about the Spanish flu and a murder mystery from a master. As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  .  .  .  .  .  2:28 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 3:10 - Minisode with Brigid Kemmerer 6:31 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth 9:36 - The Girl in Red by Christina Henry 9:54 - Currently Reading 2019 Reading Challenge 9:59 - Six Stories by Matt Weselowski 12:06 - Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey 12:20 - Episode 16 of Sarah’s Bookshelves Live 12:22 - Episode 189 of Sorta Awesome 15:12 - The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dion 16:53 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 18:05 - Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge 18:09 - Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, and Tobias Iaconis 20:39 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 22:53 - Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink 24:39 - What Should I Read Next episode 186 about bookish serendipity 25:32 - The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry 25:39 - The Giver by Lois Lowry 28:07 - A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket 29:58 - The Penderwicks by Jennie Birdsall Belly Up to the Book Bar! - Megan Goodell 33:51 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 34:25 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes 35:36 - Prey by Michael Crichton 36:04 - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 36:20 - The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 36:27 - Circe by Madeline Miller 37:02 - The Physician by Noah Gordon 37:28 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 37:35 - Beartown by Fredrick Backman 37:36 - Us Against You by Fredrick Backman 38:26 - Class Mom by Laurie Gelman 38:49 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule 38:59 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse 39:10 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara 39:43 - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon 39:49 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage 39:55 - Haunted Ground by Erin Hart 40:10 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer 40:19 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 40:27 - Christina Henry fairytale retellings - Lost Boy, Alice, Red Queen, Girl in Red 40:43 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 40:53 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab 41:17 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty 41:25 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge 41:46 - The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty 41:56 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty If you want to Belly Up to the Book Bar, send us an email: currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com 44:04 - As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner 46:31 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz 46:40 - The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz 48:58 - The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes) by Anthony Horowitz *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*  

"The freak-of-nature-tiger was actually a man-made disaster," says Dane Huckelbridge, @huckelbridge. You're here because you love listening to badass writers, filmmakers, and producers talk about the art and craft of true stories. I try and unpack their journey and how they go about the work, so you can apply those tools of mastery to your own work. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and hand this episode over to a friend you think would benefit from it. If you want to leave a written review please do. Feel free to email me with kind words or questions. I might just read them on the air. And keep the conversation going on Twitter @BrendanOMeara and @CNFPod. You are the social network. Subvert the algorithm, man. Rage against the algorithm (great podcast name by the way). If you need any more evidence of Dane's cool, check out his Twitter handle is simply @huckelbridge. Dane has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, Tin House, The New Republic, and New Delta Review. He is the author of Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit; The United States of Beer: The True Tale of How Beer Conquered America, From B.C. to Budweiser and Beyond; and a novel, Castle of Water, which has been optioned for a film. He grew up in Cleveland. Went to Princeton. And he lives in Paris with his French wife. Happy Valentine's Day, holy shit. Dane's book was originally going to be a chapter in a book of man-eating animals, but this story got bigger and bigger and bigger. It's a brilliant exploration of the tiger as well as British colonialism and how the this tiger was a man-made disaster. Let's get it on, here's @huckelbridge, the coolest dude living in Europe.

​In this Unabridged Shorts podcast episode, we discuss our favorite love stories within novels.​Some of our favorite authors who write romantic characters (or characters with amazing love stories) include Rainbow Rowell, Leigh Bardugo, and Dane Huckelbridge.We discussed the novels based on levels of steaminess. For more recommendations grouped by "steam" level, check out our social media!    our favorite love stories Ashley -  *Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On *Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga graphic novel series *Marissa Meyer’s Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles series) *Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom ​ Jen - *Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl *L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series *Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series (Book #1) *Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game   Sara -  *Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor and Park *Jasmine Guillory’s The Wedding Date *Helen Hoang’s The Kiss Quotient *Dane Huckelbridge’s Castle of Water    want to support unabridged? Become a patron on Patreon.​ Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram. Like and follow our Facebook Page. Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter. Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher. Check us out on Podbean.

February 6th - Dane Huckelbridge, Liz Massie

Dane Huckelbridge talks about his book "No Beast So Fierce" The true story of the deadliest animal in history.

What’s Trending—The Hot topics of the day Make Us Feel Good-A positive story to put you in a good mood. Matt Granite—Majic Ways To Save--a deal on skin care. Dane Huckelbridge talks about his book "No Beast So Fierce" The true story of the deadliest animal in history.

February 6th - Dane Huckelbridge, Liz Massie

The true story of what is considered the deadliest animal in history- GUEST: Dane Huckelbridge

Welcome to the Currently Reading podcast! In our inaugural episode, we try out our format for the first time. You get to hear us get over our microphone nerves and get comfortable chatting with each other. We share a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us – something readerly in our lives that we want to highlight, a few of the books we’ve finished reading lately, and what’s up next on the TBR pile. We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to put into every reader’s hands: something that has ranked on our favorites list or been well-beloved by the people in our lives that we’ve convinced to read it. Perhaps it will become one of your favorites as well. Time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! . . . . 2:33 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling Illustrated edition 5:20 – Stretched Too Thin: How Working Moms Can Lose the Guilt, Work Smarter, and Thrive by Jessica N. Turner 7:22 – Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 9:38 – The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery 13:05 – You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld 14:28 – Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld 14:31 – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 15:52 – Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton 19:28 – The Book of M by Peng Shepherd 22:53 – The Walking Dead (TV Series) 26:41 – War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 27:02 – Blindness by José Saramago 27:26 – These is my Words by Nancy Turner 30:33 – The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller 30:57 – The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir 32:46 – Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge 35:30 – The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell 36:52 – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Dane Huckelbridge Author of The United States of Beer. It's no surprise Americans love their beer—consuming about six billion gallons annually—and humans have been brewing beer for thousands of years. In his new book, Huckelbridge charts the surprisingly fascinating history of Americans' relationship with their most popular alcoholic beverage and shows how beer has evolved along with the country—from a local and regional product (once upon a time every American city has its own brewery and iconic beer brand) to the rise of global mega-brands like Budweiser and Miller that are synonymous with U.S. capitalism. We learn of George Washington's attempt to brew beer at Mount Vernon with molasses instead of barley when his barley crop failed, of the 19th century “Beer Barons” like Captain Frederick Pabst, Adolphus Busch, and Joseph Schlitz who revolutionized commercial brewing and built lucrative empires—and the American immigrant experience—and of the advances in brewing and bottling technology that allowed beer to flow in the saloons of the Wild West. Throughout the book, Huckelbridge draws connections between seemingly remote fragments of the American past, and shares his reports from the frontlines of today's craft-brewing revolution.   

Will and the Greeze talk with Dane Huckelbridge about his book Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit and even talk about beer for a minute. After the 15, the guys sample Old Forester 86 proof and come to some unique conclusions in their review.  Get Dane's book on bourbon here or his new book on beer here. You won't regret it. If you're enjoying the show, make sure to rate & review us on iTunes. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. 

Few products are more American than Bourbon.  In fact some argue that the Kentucky spirit IS the American experience, distilled and sealed in a bottle.While the English have their Scotch, the Irish their Whisky, Latin America their rum, and Mexico it's cervezas, Kentucky Bourbon is our defining spirit.  So what does this drink say about our character as a nation and how does that history apply to today's America?Dane Huckelbridge sought to find out and he shares it with us in Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit. My conversation with Dane Huckelbridge: