Reading Envy 002: Return of the Euthanized Book

On our second episode, we were joined by Bryan Alexander.  Bryan is a writer, researcher, and educational futurist, but we have always been intrigued by his reading knowledge. 

There were some surprising synergies between the three of us and the books we wanted to talk about - historical points of significant change, virtual reality and plugging into a system, and books about books!

Bryan brought three books along for discussion:

• The Proteus Paradox by Nick Yee
• Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 by John Milton Cooper Jr.
• Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

This episode, Scott talked about:

 

• The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara W. Tuchman
• Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections and Other Obsessions by Guillermo del Toro
• What Makes This Book So Great by Jo Walton

And Jenny focused on:

• Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby (see also "Stuff I've Been Reading" on The Believer)

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