SBR The Podcast
By SBRThePodcast
SBR The PodcastJan 30, 2019
Morning Joe: American Historian
Episode 84! We get an Art Garfunkel update and talk typewriters, airport books, and NYT "best-sellers". Marc read The Wayward Bus by Steinbeck and Trevor read Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima - or was it Murakami?
I Skim, Therefore I Read
Episode 83! If you skim a book, have you really read it? We say HELL NO - Trevor has a revelation delivered via Matrix by @legroff and Marc finished reading Blindness by José Saramago
Elite Category of Super Achievers
Episode 82! Marc and Trevor learn that in 2019 and 2020 they were some of the smartest people on the planet. Marc sees the potential in Blindness by Jose Saramago, and Trevor is reading London Fields by Martin Amis
The Moby Dick Problem
Episode 81! This week Marc wraps up "Butcher's Crossing" or was is Miller's Crossing? Someone crossed something. Cormac McCarthy isn't as OG as he would have you believe. Trevor cautiously gets into Tolstoy with "Family Happiness".
Hemingway Was Gross!
Episode 80! We discover Hemingway had way too many cats. Marc read "Butcher's Crossing" by John Williams and Trevor finished up "Quiet Flows the Don" and started "The Dragonbone Chair" by @tadwilliams
A New Era
Episode 79! This week we talk about a new era of the podcast, a format that hopefully be bringing you MORE EPISODES! Marc read Neuromancer by William Gibson @GreatDismal and Trevor read And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov who does not have a twitter account.
The Short Story Dispenser
Episode 78! We talk literary Christmas gifts! Marc cheated HARD and read 3 shorts from the Arvada "Short Story Dispenser" by @ShortEdition_EN short by Henry van Dyke, Juan Rosado, and Jenny Moore! Trevor read Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Orion Special
Episode 77! Ursula K. Le Guin is on a stamp - Trevor ruins the intro and cracks open two classics: an Orion beer and "Tale of Two Cities" by little known author Charles Dickens - Marc read "Autumn" by Karl Ove Knausgaard...or was it Ali Smith?
Touched by Chocolate
Episode 76! We have HUGE NEWS! Like...super huge. Marc read the almost legitimate Ray Bradbury and his novel "The Martian Chronicles" and Trevor actually read something new! "Three Women" by @lisadtaddeo
800 Pages of Validation
Episode 75! Marc starts a new game of book blurbs that Trevor has to guess at, we shit on Franzen without even knowing it this time! Trevor is in a groove with Virginia Woolf and "Mrs. Dalloway" and Marc shares the pain with "Crying in H Mart" by @Jbrekkie frontwoman Michelle Zauner
Separate Loaves
Episode 73! Marc finally lets us know what his book sale haul was from a few weeks ago - Trevor read KOKO by Peter Straub and Marc read The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Milq
Episode 73! Marc has some preparations to make for a yearly used book sale - Trevor read "Persuasion" by Jane Austen and Marc read "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons
Something Classy Like...Butt-Chugging
Episode 72! We mix some interesting literary cocktails - Marc takes a break with Christopher Buehlman's "Those Across The River" and Trevor becomes the voice of a generation of feminists after reading "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf
Jam Packed With Facts
Episode 71! Marc catches up on literary headlines - Trevor read Moby Dick and Marc gets back into Alexander Dumas with The Black Tulip