danwilbur:

Join me at Community Bookstore on Thursday, March 15th @ 7 PM to hear Josh Bazell discuss his new book, Wild Thing. Subjects to be discussed: the mob, health care, fear of sharks, sex, murder, mystery, and how to not die!

Free. RSVP here.

About Wild Thing:

It’s hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So hard that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world’s worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers-not to mention the occasional lake monster-are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem.

Facing new and old monsters alike, Dr. Brnwa’s story continues in this darkly funny and lightning-paced follow up to Josh Bazell’s bestselling debut.

About the author:

Josh Bazell is a doctor and novelist. He has a BA in writing from Brown University and an MD from Columbia. He has worked as a screenwriter, and while in medical school investigated suspicious deaths for the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York.

Another great live show! More book titles to come.

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!

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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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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 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.

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