On this week’s show, I talk to the essayist and novelist Chuck Klosterman, Plus John McCaffrey discusses Leo Durocher's Nice Guys Finish Last. BOOKS DISCUSSED I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" Downtown Owl" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" Nice Guys Finish Last" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" NOTES On July 9th, Mattew Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown Orlando. See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but we welcome your continued contributions to keep the show going strong! The Drunken Odyssey Deeply Recommends When I complained that Britney Spears was in Esquire back in the early paleolithic days of 2004, I confess I didn't dwell sufficiently on what Chuck Klosteman's article said about her cognitive dissonance, although his words were competing with Britney Spears's anatomy at the time. On May 14th, 1988, Atlantic Records held a 40th Anniversary Concert during which, in my infallible opinion, and it pained me to say this, Debbie Gibson outplayed Led Zeppelin. Want to disagree? Watch the footage: Debbie Gibson Led Zeppelin For the record, Jason Bonham was drumming, although I don't this Hindenburg of a performance can be blamed on him. According to a Times profile, Alice Munro is retiring. According to The Guardian, Neil Gaiman is writing a new Sandman series.

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