Today’s Love, Sex, Death, and Books podcast features Kambri Crews, author of Burn Down The Ground. Kambri had enough material to write her memoir before moving to NYC: the child of two deaf parents, she spent much of her childhood living in a tin shack in Texas. Then, her father was sent to prison for 20 years for attempted murder.

We try to keep the talk light (we talk about married life, strip clubs, dildos) but we do land on some tough issues about prisoner rehabilitation and the right to die peacefully. If you would like to see one of the articles Kambri mentions it’s here.

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Today’s Love, Sex, Death, and Books features Emma Straub, a wonderful writer and human being. We talk about terrible TV, envy, marriage, Hollywood, growing up with a writer, and writing about sex! I hope you enjoy it.

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Today’s episode of Love, Sex, Death and Books features Tim Kreider, author of We Learn Nothing. This was my favorite book of last year, and the interview is great! Hope you like it.

(Also: I spend a little time up top talking about why I dislike Ulysses. It really is OK if you like it, but please take the time to tell me why you do. Share your thoughts on Twitter with this hashtag #LSDandBooks)

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Tech: Eddie Grupper

Music: Soul Khan

Questions? Concerns? Hate mail? dwilbs@gmail.com

Happy Valentine’s Day! I thought I’d show you what I do when I’m bored at work. Follow Community Bookstore’s Tumblr for more pretentious staff picks from The Disgruntled Bookseller + pictures of an adorably mean bookstore cat.

Better Book Titles now has a podcast!

Every week I’ll invite an author to talk about his or her latest work and swap personal stories about love, sex, death, and favorite books.

Listen to the first episode with J.R. Angelella about his first novel, Zombie.

If you’d like to listen via iTunes, go here. And give a guy a break by rating the show if you have time!

To visit the podcast’s feed directly and download episodes go here.

Click play below to stream the first episode:

Logo by Jake Young

Tech: Eddie Grupper

Music: Soul Khan

Questions? Concerns? Hate mail? dwilbs@gmail.com

Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust

Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire

Victor Hugo: Les Misérables

Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Albert Santos.

What do these books have in common? They are all on Vanity Fair’s list of the Best Books of 2012!

In other news: January 1st is the last day to order a copy of How Not to Read with a custom cover made by me. Details here.

You can also buy the book at any of these places.

Susannah Cahalan: Brain on Fire

E.T.A Hoffman and Maurice Sendak: The Nutcracker

I wrote this piece for Powell’s awhile back. May it serve as a gentle reminder to not be a jerk while visiting real bookstores this weekend:

How Customers See Bookstores

Merry Christmas!

Dan