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Sinopse
Tough love for literature.
Episódios
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Writers Ask: Off With Their Heads
06/05/2013 Duração: 52minWe offer tips for organizing your files, dealing with your MFA classmates, and Highlandering your enemies. Got questions for us? Email them to bookfightpod@gmail.com, or tweet them to us at @Book_Fight.
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Ep 33-Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
29/04/2013 Duração: 01h15minWe foist a book upon Tom's college roommate, an avowed non-reader. Will he like it? Will he spit it out, like a child being forced to eat spinach? Talking points include: 80s trivia, Sarah Palin, TV Guide Recommends, info-dumps, dystopian futures, The Princess Bride, and videogames.
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Writers Ask: M.E.N.T.O.R.
22/04/2013 Duração: 57minHeartbreaking church lock-ins, awkward rest stop encounters, and also we answer some questions about writing. How does one find a mentor? Once you get some work accepted, do the rejections lose their sting? And what's the deal with book trailers?
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Ep 32-JM Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
15/04/2013 Duração: 57minBook Fight road trip! We recorded this episode in a car (Tom's) while driving to the annual Conversations and Connections conference in Washington, D.C. The book this week is Tom's pick, and boy is it a bummer. Though a very well-written, culturally important bummer. We still found stuff to joke about, including bears, Tom's driving skills, tunnels, sharks, and Jay Leno's quest for love and approval. We also talked about the upsides and downsides of allegory, and whether Coetzee's narrator is a creep. This week's closing music is from Phosphorescent's 2005 album "To Willie," which you can find in the iTunes store.
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Writers Ask: Hurtin' Feelings and Burnin' Bridges
08/04/2013 Duração: 48minTo MFA or not to MFA: that is the question. Also, what's our beef with flash fiction? And how should writers use Twitter and Facebook? Plus Tom burns a bridge, and Mike tries to glean some lessons from past failures.
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Ep 31-Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
01/04/2013 Duração: 01h20minOne of Mike's favorite books, which means if Tom doesn't properly love it Mike might have to punch him. Also: Britishisms, the Middle Ages, academic ambivalence, Jenga, and ballet.
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Writers Ask: Making Lemonade
25/03/2013 Duração: 34minRejecting your friends. Dealing with overzealous editors. Plus: Tom's bloody nipples, which magazines we dislike, and what editors do with their urine. For more, visit us at bookfightpod@gmail.com.
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Ep 30-Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver
18/03/2013 Duração: 01h02minThis book won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award, for which our guest, Matt Jakubowski, was one of the judges. We talk translations, Nordicness, strong female characters, and rabbits. Also, we recommend some music and argue about snacks.
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Writers Ask: The Waiting Game
11/03/2013 Duração: 48minHow long is too long for a journal or press to read your submission? How much can you get paid for a short story? What are the worst writerly affectations? Talking points include: therapy dogs, AWP, porn scripts, jaunty hats, and writing in coffee shops. Got a question for us? Want to tell us we're wrong? Email us at bookfightpod@gmail.com, or visit bookfightpod.com. Thanks for listening!
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AWP Dispatch #5
09/03/2013 Duração: 14minWe're joined by Tod Goldberg and Julia Pistell, of Literary Disco, to talk bedouin poetry tents, writer costumes, Val Kilmer as Mark Twain, and which small presses sound most like metal bands.
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AWP Dispatch #4
09/03/2013 Duração: 32minThe results of our panel dare: Tom goes to a 75-minute session on therapy, while Mike explores the connections between history and poetry.
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AWP Dispatch #3
08/03/2013 Duração: 05minHello, morning! We're a little groggy, but there's important conferencing to be done. Talking points: popping and locking, the guy in the newspaper hat, rejection notes.
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AWP Dispatch #2
07/03/2013 Duração: 07minMore jibber jabber from the AWP conference in Boston. This time we're on the conference floor, recapping Day One in the belly of the beast.
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AWP Dispatch #1
07/03/2013 Duração: 09minWe're at the annual AWP conference in Boston, i.e. ground zero of the American Writing-Industrial Complex. We'll be filing regular brief dispatches from the conference each day. Here's the first one! Talking points include: train travel, poets in newspaper hats, and rolling VIP style.
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Ep 29-Lynn Coady, The Antagonist
04/03/2013 Duração: 01h09sA novel-in-emails whose main character is annoyed to discover that a former friend has fictionalized his life in a book. Talking points include: Canadian rock, SARS, aggrieved exes, epistolary novels, and grilled cheese sandwiches.
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Writers Ask: The Children Are Our Future
25/02/2013 Duração: 42minOn this Very Special Episode we field questions from students at Tom's high school alma mater. Changing lives!
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Ep 28-Edward St Aubyn, Some Hope
18/02/2013 Duração: 01h04minAn intensely dark, often comic novel about the British landed gentry and child abuse. Talking points include: the decision to write a memoir or a novel, mean-spiritedness versus generosity, inspirational dog films, and which one of us Frazier and which is Roz. Also, another installment of MATR, and whether Tom's recommendations are to be trusted.
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Valentine's Special: Viking Warrior, Unwilling Wife
14/02/2013 Duração: 58minSpecial bonus episode! Our gift to you, listeners. We read a Harlequin Romance novel about Viking love.
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Writers Ask: TGIT
11/02/2013 Duração: 32minLow-residency MFA programs. Revisiting your old work. And should writers go to AWP? We also debate some new catch phrases, Mike alienates everybody, and we create a new iteration of MTV's Real World franchise.
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Ep 27-Jami Attenberg, The Melting Season
04/02/2013 Duração: 01h06minA novel that prompts a discussion of how we pick books, and why certain books stress us out. Talking points include: story structure, penis length versus penis girth, athletes versus writers, Mexican vacations, and Mike's junior tennis career. We also debut a new feature at the end of the show, tentatively titled Mike and Tom Recommend, in which we ... well, recommend stuff (and bicker about said recommendations, as it turns out).