Ep. 6 - Wipe Your Hands and Other Book Event Advice with IDW's Chris Ryall

Reading Glasses

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🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, Brea and Mallory help you navigate different types of book events, interview comics editor Chris Ryall and learn the importance of clean hands. Use the hash tag #BookEvents to participate in online discussion on Twitter and Instagram! Links- Being A Book Escort- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/the-modern-face-of-book-tours/407641/ Frankfurt Book Fair- https://www.buchmesse.de/en/fbf/ LA Festival of Books- http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/ Brooklyn Book Festival- http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/ Emerald City Comic Con- http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/ Chris Ryall- https://twitter.com/chris_ryall IDW Comics- http://www.idwpublishing.com/ Books Mentioned -- American War by Omar El Akkad https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451493583 Hunger by Roxane Gay https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062362599 The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250075581 Abandon Me by Melissa Febos https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781632866578 The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143034902 On Writing by Stephen King https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781439156810 The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781451678192 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802130204 Carter Beats The Devil by Glen Gold https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780786886326

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0:00.0	You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book giving out advice about attending book events, interviewing comics editor Chris Ryle, and trying
0:25.0	to get to all the listener feedback you guys are sending languages so much and we really appreciate
0:28.6	it.
0:29.6	But first...
0:30.6	What are you reading, Bria?
0:31.6	I am reading American War by Omar al-A-Qed. I've looked it up but I forgot
0:36.8	to say it already. I've heard that so good. It's really great. It is a dystopian. I'm so surprised.
0:44.6	A dystopian, stop the presses,
0:46.6	I'm reading a book about a dystopia.
0:48.6	It's not that far in the future though.
0:50.6	So it's like, you know, it's only,
0:52.3	it's only about 70 years in the future and it's a civil war that's taking place in America over fuel issues and it follows this girl who becomes the sort of mercenary for a back of a better word but it follows her from a very early time and basically how
1:06.3	her life gets torn apart and you kind of
1:10.1	These horrible things happen to her so you kind of like you understand what's going on with her.
1:14.4	It's really great. It's very dark, but it is really, really well written.
1:18.7	It will really draw you in because you really
1:25.0	really love this girl and also all the politics that are happening today in America are really reflected anyway
1:26.2	so there's a lot of things happening and as a person who grew up in East Texas
1:30.3	there's this huge thing that takes place this huge all these battles that take place in East Texas, so that was really interesting.
1:36.0	What are you reading, Mallory?
1:38.0	I am reading Hunger by Roxanne Gay.
1:40.0	Oh, man, yes, it is amazing. I love her.
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