Podcasts about oddest book title

IzzyVerse welcomes writer of Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero Roy Schwartz. Roy is the author of Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero and The Darkness in Lee's Closet and the Others Waiting There. Is Superman Circumcised? won the 2021 international Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Roy has written for a wide range of publications, including New York Daily News, Jerusalem Post and Philosophy Now. He currently writes about pop culture for The Forward and CNN.com. https://www.royschwartz.com/ Buy Roy's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Roy-Schwartz/e/B07F17NMFM?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1658270352&sr=8-1 #superman, #jewishism, #moses #dccomics, #dc, #dcuniverse, #comics, #clarkkent, #manofsteel, #henrycavill, #supergirl, #art, #comicbooks, #lexluthor, #smallville, #krypton, #christopherreeve #cnn --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/izzyverse/support

Author Roy Schwartz joins me today to discuss his book, "Is Superman Circumcised?"' Comic book geeks and nerds rejoice and prepare yourself as we dive deep into the underlying themes of Superman's mythology. "Is Superman Circumcised?"' is the complete Jewish history of the World's Greatest Hero. In1938 Superman was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both immigrants from Eastern Europe, and has been captivating us since. This week's interview has it all: fascinating history, superheroes, Nazis, lawsuits, Jews in space, and more! If you love origin stories you'll love my discussion with Roy on his book and I guarantee it'll leave you wanting more. Superman is an American tradition crafted upon Jewish tradition. You're sure to finish this podcast with a newfound appreciation for the Mensch of Steel! "Is Superman Circumcised?"': Winner, 2021 international Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year Our Guest, Roy Schwartz https://www.royschwartz.com/ https://www.royschwartz.com/is-superman-circumcised https://www.facebook.com/RealRoySchwartz https://twitter.com/RealRoySchwartz https://www.instagram.com/RealRoySchwartz/ Hashtag Fun: Jeff dives into recent trends and reads some of his favorite tweets from trending hashtags. The hashtag featured in this episode is #DownsideOfBeingSuperman from Hashtag You're It!. Tweets featured on the show are retweeted at @JeffDwoskinShow Follow Hashtag Roundup to tweet along with fun hashtags daily! https://twitter.com/HashtagRoundup Download the Hashtag Roundup app at https://app.hashtagroundup.com/ Follow Jeff Dwoskin: Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigmacher The Jeff Dwoskin Show: https://twitter.com/JeffDwoskinShow Podcast website: https://jeffisfunny.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/JeffDwoskinShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week our guest on PodCraft is Loani Prior, of Queenland, known in knitting circles around the world. Author and popular tutor, she has penned several BEST SELLING books on the subject of tea cosies. She takes great delight in seeing the humour in her subjects, designing outrageous patterns and giving them equally funny names. In Loani’s words: “All four of these beautiful books landed on Australia's Independent Bookstores Top Ten Bestseller lists. ​Who'd a thunk hey?! Tea Cosies! On a bestseller list!" Loani shares with us her story of how she started out knitting, the interest in Tea Cosies, her foray into the broader craft community and more! 'How Tea Cosies Changed the World' was shortlisted for the 2013 Oddest Book Title of the Year Award. And her book, '​Really Wild Tea Cosies' has been translated into French, Finnish, Dutch and Estonian. ​You can purchase Pretty Funny Tea Cosies, How Tea Cosies Changed the World and Really Wild Tea Cosies at any good (or bad) Australian bookstore and on line at Book Depository and Amazon Books. Visit Loani's website: https://www.grandpurlbaa.com/home  Tea Cosy Rap: https://expertiseevents.com.au/podcraft-6-loani-prior-tea-cosy-rap/ About PodCraft PodCraft is a series connecting you with Australia’s creative community. Hear the stories, inspiration and passion of some of the amazing personalities from throughout the community.

In which we look at rock and roll street names, wonder if Wikipedia is wrecking our memories, remember times we were photographed with pop stars (Snoop Dogg, Springsteen, the Polyphonic Spree!), see a Teddy Thompson 'showcase', talk about favourite characters in the Wire (Prop Joe!) and Mad Men, ask if there's ever been a 'bonus track' worth having and reel off some winners of the annual Oddest Book Title - eg John W Trimmer's 'How To Avoid Huge Ships' and 'Highlights in The History of Concrete'. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we’re kicking things off with one of our favourite books awards - the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year.   In other news, a new children’s book attempts to do what politicians can’t - explain Brexit, the Asterix comics get their first female protagonist, a new app will make books easier to read by compressing them and taking out all the difficult words, an Instagram account describes itself as an online library for old and out-of-print books, and a man has spent 20 years searching, gathering and compiling Shakespeare’s library.    After that, Sarah regales us with her thoughts on No One Is Too Small by Greta Thunberg, and we have a quiz about famous people who have food in their names. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #DiagramPrize #OddestBookTitle #TheDirtHoleAndItsVariations #VikingEncounters #ProceedingsOfThe18thVikingCongress #EndingTheWarOnArtisanCheese #NoahGetsNaked #BibleStoriesTheyDidntTeachYouAtSundaySchool #HitlersMonsters #ASupernaturalHistoryOfTheThirdReich #Asterix #Comics #Blinkit #BookReports #Instagram #SendB00ks #WilliamShakespeare #Library #NoOneIsTooSmallToMakeADifference #GretaThunberg #Quiz

Under normal circumstances (or what passes as normal around here), we’d take our rickety wagon of cultural anarchy and meander along until we found some oddity or weirdness that we could talk about, but at certain points in the time someone else kindly does the job for us. That’s right. It’s time for one of our favourite annual awards - The Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year! But before we get into that there are a few items of note, like Isabella Rossellini’s bizarre “one woman” show that had her sporting novelty gorilla arms (which, contrary to the review we found, we thought sounded amazing), the winner of the Man Booker Prize, and the fact that copies of Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk by Mark Judge (who is a college friend of controversial supreme court judge Brett Kavanaugh), are suddenly very hard to get a hold of … We end the show with our thoughts on Halcyon by Rio Youers. If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Halcyon #RioYouers #ManBookerPrize #Wasted #TalesOfAGenXDrunk #Bookseller #DiagramPrize #IsabellaRossellini

With new ideas about what the Voynich Manuscript actually is, disarmingly obvious sanity for libraries from Sydney, and more strange words added to the Oxford English Dictionary it’s just another day at the office for us. Oh, and we kind of have a quiz about the 2017 Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year, but like everything in this episode that gets derailed. Our featured book is Warlock Holmes: The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles by G. S. Denning. #WarlockHolmes #TheHellHoundOfTheBaskervilles #GSDenning #TitanBooks #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

This week: Our glorious leader Ken is once again unable to reach the epic levels of fitness, and mental agility needed to traverse the rocky rhetoric that is CCN, however, the others are...so, that's good I guess. Anyway, this week they discuss: Catzilla!,  Red Spain, Protestaganda, Lots of stuff about books to look intelligent, authors capitalising on our fascination with Florida, Magickal Magicky Magick, and the death of a legend! Personnel –   Joe Nolan, Frater Isla, and Kim Monaghan Links: Catzilla - Link Spanish Mayor’s Communist Utopia Link ABQ Mayor Bullshits About Protest Link   Isla Beaten to the Punch: Author Writes Florida Book Link Ewok Sex Den Link This year’s Oddest Book Title of the Year Award Link Jack Parson’s and Marjorie Cameron’s New Book Link RIP Oderus Ungerus - Link Musique Sospetto - Agente D'oriente

GHR is back and we’re live with Phil Maiewski, member of the 501st, the Rebel Legion and co-host of the “All Wings Report In” podcast. We talk about the demise of the Clone Wars, drudging old bits of NASA history from the ocean, and unneeded remakes before delving into Cosplay. No acts of God will stop Preacher23 from running all over his co-host Courtney in order to give Perrian a needed break. Link to download Special Guest: Phil Maiewski has officially been cosplaying since February, 2006 when he joined the 501st Legion with his Episode 3 Clone Trooper outfit. He's made 3 movie-quality outfits since, and has several more in the works. Since 2011 he has been serving as the Executive Officer for the local branch of the Rebel Legion, and as of January 1st is Co-Host of the Rebel Legion's "All Wings Report In" podcast, a show about the news, events, and costuming within the Rebel Legion. The GridAmazon CEO recovering NASA bits from the ocean floorBig Bang older than once thoughtThe Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year: Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop Digital ProjectionPete’s Dragon and Escape from New York remakesAlan Ritchson cast as Raphael in TMNT The Meat of the Show501st LegionThe Rebel Legion