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Visit danwilbur.com</description><title>Better Book Titles</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @betterbooktitles)</generator><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/</link><item><title>Do you know someone who’s graduating soon? Are you a...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/61e2b575cac9e282276f42fb2423344a/tumblr_mmqp6o2WOt1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you know someone who’s graduating soon? Are you a student scared of entering college, grad school, or the real world (scariest)? &lt;/p&gt;
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Reader Submission by David Leeds</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4a0b8c50c7f3eca91a277b3bf6d77e75/tumblr_mmmxw2kKwm1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joseph Heller: Catch-22&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Reader Submission by &lt;a href="http://catch-11.tumblr.com/"&gt;David Leeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/50162816405</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/50162816405</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 09:11:41 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>funny</category><category>lol</category><category>books</category><category>better book titles</category><category>catch 22</category><category>reader submission</category><category>novel</category></item><item><title>danwilbur:

I’ve been summing up books and movies on Twitter...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a41cd0cd91d338bbaa144e0062bc716d/tumblr_mm15avZVs31qgk2clo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Dante's Inferno&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/549602b5f4989d9e898fa41c028774da/tumblr_mm15avZVs31qgk2clo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Of Mice and Men&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1205131a623b9d1d2cf2a4e513a028d0/tumblr_mm15avZVs31qgk2clo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; The Catcher in the Rye&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6203413b93928393eb65dcb80c024e00/tumblr_mm15avZVs31qgk2clo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; 1984&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7ac91a8616596f645ffbc65e3c5db29b/tumblr_mm15avZVs31qgk2clo5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; The Stranger&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3e58bfea4168ea44ad0a5e5c309626e4/tumblr_mm15avZVs31qgk2clo6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; The Godfather&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d777a48a2255589e8a7abc1076de4ea5/tumblr_mm15avZVs31qgk2clo8_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; The Master and Margarita&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://danwilbur.tumblr.com/post/49208450690/emojis"&gt;danwilbur&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’ve been summing up books and movies on Twitter this way because I clearly have too much time on my hands.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/49208711555</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/49208711555</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:20:55 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>education</category><category>funny</category><category>books</category><category>novel</category><category>emojis</category><category>humor</category><category>lol</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>dumb</category></item><item><title>John Updike: Rabbit, Run
Follow me (@DanWilbur) on Twitter!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ab1dbdf1cbdf7d749ceabd97d56de260/tumblr_mlxdov00f01qczxc6o1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Updike: &lt;em&gt;Rabbit, Run&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/DanWilbur"&gt;Follow me (@DanWilbur) on Twitter!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/49021534995</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/49021534995</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:53:00 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>books</category><category>updike</category><category>lol</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>funny</category><category>novel</category><category>rabbit</category><category>dan wilbur</category><category>john updike</category></item><item><title>Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener
Follow Better Book...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ee4969fdb105a167f1c8c68ffe2a3382/tumblr_mlm0qbOvIG1qczxc6o1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Herman Melville: &lt;em&gt;Bartleby, the Scrivener&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://betterbooktitles.com/LSDandBooks"&gt;Listen to the most recent podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/48525887421</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/48525887421</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:39:00 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>herman melville</category><category>books</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>funny</category><category>bored to death</category><category>humor</category><category>lol</category><category>dan wilbur</category><category>melville house</category><category>bartleby</category><category>scrivener</category><category>novella</category><category>story</category><category>reading</category><category>education</category></item><item><title>James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce
Reader Submission from Michael...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/aaa4b274ed76e97548d2014c3a00b2cc/tumblr_mlgiz21nVx1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Reader Submission from &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/LocalEmpireTV"&gt;Michael Molina, a member of this great sketch group!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/48281133298</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/48281133298</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:28:14 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>lol</category><category>James M. Cain</category><category>mildred pierce</category><category>funny</category><category>books</category><category>better book titles</category><category>reader submission</category></item><item><title>Lauren Groff: Arcadia
Follow Better Book Titles on...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e886e3cb1699636a38ff16485a1fe22e/tumblr_mlank5YWqr1qczxc6o1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lauren Groff: &lt;em&gt;Arcadia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://betterbooktitles.com/LSDandBooks"&gt;Listen to the most recent podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/48034202994</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/48034202994</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:21:00 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>books</category><category>arcadia</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>reading</category><category>novel</category><category>hippies</category><category>lauren groff</category><category>humor</category><category>lol</category></item><item><title>If you’re not following @DanWilbur (me) on Twitter, then...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5d5c8be0bc5f9b0eb603df8ed5060ddd/tumblr_ml0buqgGk81qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you’re not following &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/DanWilbur"&gt;@DanWilbur (me) on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, then you’re missing out on stupidity like this.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/47565427923</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/47565427923</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:32:00 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>hamlet</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>twitter</category><category>emoji</category><category>William Shakespeare</category><category>dan wilbur</category><category>funny</category><category>lol</category><category>joy</category><category>play</category></item><item><title>Today’s Love, Sex, Death, and Books podcast features A.M....</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f471e782d02860f44fa65e92cec05d88/tumblr_mkos5akGET1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6e2a3b739e7c53c455294281afa6a75f/tumblr_mkos5akGET1qczxc6o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/76d3790ec473606a337075953cd6511a/tumblr_mkos5akGET1qczxc6o3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today’s Love, Sex, Death, and Books podcast features A.M. Homes, author of May We Be Forgiven, The Safety of Objects, and many more. We talk about intimate moments with yourself, writing for TV, Improv, marriage, and Nixon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-sex-death-books-podcast/id602411391?mt=2"&gt;Listen on iTunes&lt;/a&gt; (and take a sec to rate it if you like it!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lsdandbooks.libsyn.com/a-m-homes-author-of-may-we-be-forgiven"&gt;Listen on the podcast’s website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/lsdandbooks/AM_HOMES_show.mp3"&gt;Download the show directly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://app.stitcher.com/browse/feed/32754/episodes"&gt;Stitcher &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Or listen below:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2274203/height/360/width/640/theme/legacy/direction/no/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Music: &lt;a href="http://soulkhan.com/"&gt;Soul Khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tech: &lt;a href="http://www.eddiegrupper.com/"&gt;Eddie Grupper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Logo: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/bestjakeyoung"&gt;Jake Young&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/47028722289</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/47028722289</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:10:00 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>writers</category><category>lol</category><category>funny</category><category>books</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>podcast</category><category>am homes</category><category>dan wilbur</category><category>interview</category><category>May We Be Forgiven</category><category>joy</category></item><item><title>Hello, friends!
I want to let you know about two great comedy...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/812c45c5151dded052a554991e4a6eb7/tumblr_mkl1o37POM1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3ed9265d78c1549c4eac54e47b77ca7b/tumblr_mkl1o37POM1qczxc6o2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hello, friends!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I want to let you know about two great comedy shows I host in NYC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://east.ucbtheatre.com/shows/view/3440"&gt;“Lasers”&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly stand-up show that started way back in 2010 and is returning to UCB East! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/?wtpage=event&amp;id=5737"&gt;“Local Empire”&lt;/a&gt; is a new monthly sketch show with some very funny folks. The next one is on April 9th at Public Assembly at 8 PM. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Come to either and I promise you’ll have fun. If I don’t do any book-related jokes, you can meet me after and I’ll gladly make fun of some books with you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Also, check back tomorrow morning for another &lt;a href="http://betterbooktitles.com/LSDandBooks"&gt;“Love, Sex, Death, and Books”&lt;/a&gt; podcast.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Thanks for reading this. Thanks for supporting live comedy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dan&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/46852251700</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/46852251700</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:28:51 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>comedy</category><category>live</category><category>shows</category><category>stand-up</category><category>dan wilbur</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>sketch</category></item><item><title>Today’s episode is a live show from Housing Works...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/76d3790ec473606a337075953cd6511a/tumblr_mjwq5a3AZw1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ce5eba3aa99795abb65e640139d50145/tumblr_mjwq5a3AZw1qczxc6o2_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9d958e6bf3da4f8e69fdd29676026178/tumblr_mjwq5a3AZw1qczxc6o3_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3cfa636eddfb545819cace84bd19abd6/tumblr_mjwq5a3AZw1qczxc6o4_r1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today’s episode is a live show from Housing Works Bookstore Cafe featuring Lev Grossman (author of The Magicians), Haley Tanner (Vaclav and Lena), Harrison Greenbaum (Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch), and Adam Conover (Best Week Ever). We all got together to talk about the authors’ books. One novel features two childhood friends discovering the joy of live performance and illusion, the other features a group of teenagers from Brooklyn discovering a secret magical world where they learn actual sorcery! Which is nerdier? Find out!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-sex-death-books-podcast/id602411391?mt=2"&gt;Listen on iTunes&lt;/a&gt; (and rate it!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lsdandbooks.libsyn.com/"&gt;Listen on the podcast’s website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/lsdandbooks/LIVE_Show_with_Lev_Grossman_and_Haley_Tanner.mp3%20"&gt;Download the show directly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen below:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2255787/height/360/width/640/theme/legacy/direction/no/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Music: &lt;a href="http://soulkhan.com/"&gt;Soul Khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tech: &lt;a href="http://www.eddiegrupper.com/"&gt;Eddie Grupper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Logo: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/bestjakeyoung"&gt;Jake Young&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/45754290991</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/45754290991</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:51:53 -0400</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>magic</category><category>housing works</category><category>lol</category><category>Lev Grossman</category><category>haley tanner</category><category>books</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>podcast</category><category>love sex death and books</category></item><item><title>gogogogol:

super amused that in holland the title of the book...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1531992bb4ce7a98b221d2088435b5fb/tumblr_mj54zvRt5I1qhh5ipo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/038d8959e38b68c60323b00adea0ef72/tumblr_mj54zvRt5I1qhh5ipo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/post/44541517723/super-amused-that-in-holland-the-title-of-the-book"&gt;gogogogol&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;super amused that in holland the title of the book translates to,&lt;strong&gt; “a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;nne frank&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;is alive&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;and lives&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in the attic.” &lt;/strong&gt; i mean, why beat around the bush i guess.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A real Better Book Title from Holland! Thanks to &lt;a href="http://gogogogol.tumblr.com/"&gt;gogogogol&lt;/a&gt; for posting it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/44712627986</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/44712627986</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:52:00 -0500</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literarature</category><category>humor</category><category>lol</category><category>funny</category><category>books</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>Hope a tragedy</category><category>anne frank</category><category>shalom auslander</category><category>novel</category></item><item><title>Today’s Love, Sex, Death, and Books podcast features...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/76d3790ec473606a337075953cd6511a/tumblr_mj6w60Bigl1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2b37760516c22c53ae1d828fac8ebcf5/tumblr_mj6w60Bigl1qczxc6o2_r1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today’s Love, Sex, Death, and Books podcast features &lt;a href="http://kambricrews.com/"&gt;Kambri Crews&lt;/a&gt;, author of &lt;em&gt;Burn Down The Ground. &lt;/em&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/parent-health-care-2012-5/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-sex-death-books-podcast/id602411391?mt=2"&gt;Listen on iTunes&lt;/a&gt; (and rate it! Unless you were going to give it 1 star. Then, do nothing!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lsdandbooks.libsyn.com/"&gt;Listen on the podcast’s website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/lsdandbooks/kambri_Crews.mp3"&gt;Download the show directly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2239571/height/360/width/640/theme/legacy/direction/no/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Music: &lt;a href="http://soulkhan.com/"&gt;Soul Khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tech: &lt;a href="http://anyagarrett.com/"&gt;Anya Garrett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Logo: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/bestjakeyoung"&gt;Jake Young&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/44629318352</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/44629318352</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:55:00 -0500</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>podcast</category><category>books</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>memoir</category><category>Kambri Crews</category><category>dan wilbur</category><category>murder</category><category>prison</category><category>interview</category><category>reading</category></item><item><title>Today’s Love, Sex, Death, and Books features Emma Straub,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/76d3790ec473606a337075953cd6511a/tumblr_mitwe5gdba1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1541a986e5efb62f85fe162141726a0b/tumblr_mitwe5gdba1qczxc6o2_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0829b7e7f9f362710a220cd74c14fac5/tumblr_mitwe5gdba1qczxc6o3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-sex-death-books-podcast/id602411391"&gt;Listen on iTunes&lt;/a&gt; (and if you have time, rate the show!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lsdandbooks.libsyn.com/emma-straub-author-of-laura-lamont-s-life-in-pictures"&gt;Listen on the podcast’s website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/lsdandbooks/Emma_Straub.mp3%20"&gt;Download the show directly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stream the show here:&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Music: &lt;a href="http://soulkhan.com/"&gt;Soul Khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Logo: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/bestjakeyoung"&gt;Jake Young&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/44063276009</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/44063276009</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:55:13 -0500</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>lol</category><category>books</category><category>reading</category><category>emma straub</category><category>laura lamont's life in pictures</category><category>writing</category><category>podcast</category><category>love sex death and books</category><category>Dan Wilbur</category><category>Better Book Titles</category></item><item><title>Today’s episode of Love, Sex, Death and Books features Tim...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/76d3790ec473606a337075953cd6511a/tumblr_mifs1yC9cS1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/62d212e988532505a2febf234409db62/tumblr_mifs1yC9cS1qczxc6o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today’s episode of Love, Sex, Death and Books features &lt;a href="http://www.thepaincomics.com/"&gt;Tim Kreider&lt;/a&gt;, author of &lt;em&gt;We Learn Nothing&lt;/em&gt;. This was my favorite book of last year, and the interview is great! Hope you like it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(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)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-sex-death-books-podcast/id602411391?mt=2"&gt;Listen to the show on iTunes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lsdandbooks.libsyn.com/webpage"&gt;Listen on the podcast’s website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/lsdandbooks/Kreider_mp3.mp3%20"&gt;Download the show directly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Or, stream the show below:&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Logo by &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BestJakeYoung"&gt;Jake Young&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tech: &lt;a href="http://www.eddiegrupper.com/"&gt;Eddie Grupper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Music: &lt;a href="http://soulkhan.com/"&gt;Soul Khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Questions? Concerns? Hate mail? dwilbs@gmail.com&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/43482728287</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/43482728287</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:00:36 -0500</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>books</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>dan wilbur</category><category>love sex death and books</category><category>podcast</category><category>tim kreider</category><category>we learn nothing</category><category>lsdandbooks</category><category>interview</category></item><item><title>Happy Valentine’s Day! I thought I’d show you what I...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ec984b0437ad3658b314226d244e0687/tumblr_mi7yfnA9RC1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/439087fa2ac52925251b6ed123a1c8bb/tumblr_mi7yfnA9RC1qczxc6o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/377f8990ca8d842ed9c813e04627ecbf/tumblr_mi7yfnA9RC1qczxc6o3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/aa44ebe03580e1ab08f194dae650ee95/tumblr_mi7yfnA9RC1qczxc6o4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/838b3cf302cf756b289b1e13d919b2e2/tumblr_mi7yfnA9RC1qczxc6o5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/007fbccb111e5eb8ac5f452b49dbdaf0/tumblr_mi7yfnA9RC1qczxc6o6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy Valentine’s Day! I thought I’d show you what I do when I’m bored at work. Follow &lt;a href="http://communitybookstore.tumblr.com/"&gt;Community Bookstore’s Tumblr&lt;/a&gt; for more pretentious staff picks from The Disgruntled Bookseller + pictures of an adorably mean bookstore cat.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/43082078380</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/43082078380</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:42:59 -0500</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>books</category><category>bookstore</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>community bookstore</category><category>lol</category><category>mean</category><category>funny</category><category>humor</category><category>dante</category><category>dfw</category><category>Gravity's Rainbow</category><category>Graham Greene</category><category>Dan Wilbur</category></item><item><title>Better Book Titles now has a podcast!
Every week I’ll...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/76d3790ec473606a337075953cd6511a/tumblr_mi3cioydOO1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better Book Titles now has a podcast!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen to the first episode with &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jrangelella"&gt;J.R. Angelella&lt;/a&gt; about his first novel, &lt;a href="http://jrangelella.com/books/zombie/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zombie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you’d like to listen via iTunes, go &lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-sex-death-books-podcast/id602411391"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. And give a guy a break by rating the show if you have time!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To visit the podcast’s feed directly and download episodes &lt;a href="http://lsdandbooks.libsyn.com/webpage"&gt;go here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Click play below to stream the first episode:&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Logo by &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BestJakeYoung"&gt;Jake Young&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tech: &lt;a href="http://www.eddiegrupper.com/"&gt;Eddie Grupper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Music: &lt;a href="http://soulkhan.com/"&gt;Soul Khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Questions? Concerns? Hate mail? dwilbs@gmail.com&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/43024872935</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/43024872935</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:28:00 -0500</pubDate><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>books</category><category>funny</category><category>dan wilbur</category><category>podcast</category><category>lsdandbooks</category><category>reading</category><category>love</category><category>sex</category><category>death</category><category>author</category><category>interview</category><category>comedian</category></item><item><title>Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5fe7b3f84c82ac3961d903e0729d6b04/tumblr_mhg2gbDAsM1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Evelyn Waugh: &lt;em&gt;A Handful of Dust&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/41867118324</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/41867118324</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:16:59 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/38e943a58368246ac2487acf9b41fc5b/tumblr_mhcdlkyUkn1qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vladimir Nabokov: &lt;em&gt;Pale Fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/41702695192</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/41702695192</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:27:20 -0500</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>vladimir nabokov</category><category>funny</category><category>humor</category><category>Better Book Titles</category><category>dan wilbur</category><category>crazy</category><category>lol</category><category>books</category><category>reading</category></item><item><title>Victor Hugo: Les Misérables
Reader Submission: Title and...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e075d35ff30ce7a297c7823cd42cc8fd/tumblr_mg22ltVu221qczxc6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Victor Hugo: &lt;em&gt;Les Misérables&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by &lt;a href="http://albertinho.net/"&gt;Albert Santos&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/39568477342</link><guid>http://betterbooktitles.com/post/39568477342</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:20:17 -0500</pubDate><category>lit</category><category>literature</category><category>humor</category><category>funny</category><category>book</category><category>les miserables</category><category>lol</category><category>victor hugo</category><category>french</category><category>movie</category><category>Better Book Titles</category></item></channel></rss>
