Agony Column http://www.trashotron.com/agony The Agony Column Book Reviews, News and Commentary en-us Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT Tim Pratt Finds 'Sympathy for the Devil' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-news.htm#n090110 "...Hell for the company..." Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-news.htm#n090110 A 2010 Interview with Dan Basta at the Blue Ocean Film Festival http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-podcast.htm#podcast090110 "Experiential learning is the way we learn best." Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-podcast.htm#podcast090110 Peter S. Beagle Reveals 'The Secret History of Fantasy' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-news.htm#n083110 Telling Lies for a Living Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-news.htm#n083110 A 2010 Interview with Jean-Michel Cousteau" http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-podcast.htm#podcast083110 "We need to change. And we can. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-podcast.htm#podcast083110 David Doubilet Captures 'Water Time Light' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-news.htm#n083010 Painting with Pixels Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-news.htm#n083010 A 2010 Interview With David Doubilet http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-podcast.htm#podcast083010-1 "Everything people have always feared about photography comes true underwater." Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-podcast.htm#podcast083010-1 A 2010 Interview With David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-podcast.htm#podcast083010-2 "Everything people have always feared about photography comes true underwater." Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-30-10-podcast.htm#podcast083010-2 Vendela Vida 'The Lovers' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-news.htm#n082510 Reading and Revelation Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-news.htm#n082510 A Live Reading with Vendela Vida At Bookshop Santa Cruz http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-podcast.htm#podcast082510r "Yvonne seemed to be emerging above the surrounding mountains." Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-podcast.htm#podcast082510r A Live Interview with Vendela Vida At Bookshop Santa Cruz http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-podcast.htm#podcast082510i "...there was an owl that came into this place we were renting one day..." Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-podcast.htm#podcast082510i Jeff VanderMeer and 'The Third Bear' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-news.htm#n082410 Absurd Is as Absurd Does Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-news.htm#n082410 Paul McHugh on the Short Memoir http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-podcast.htm#podcast082410 Writing Your Own Story Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-podcast.htm#podcast082410 Mary Roach is 'Packing for Mars' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-news.htm#n082310 Non Fiction Genre Fiction Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-news.htm#n082310 A 2010 Interview with Mary Roach http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-podcast.htm#podcast082310 "There was a second hoax about a shuttle mission..." Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-23-10-podcast.htm#podcast082310 Joe R. Lansdale Takes 'Deadman's Road' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-news.htm#n082010 Deader Than Thou Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-news.htm#n082010 On the Phone with Vendela Vida http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast082010 "You do all this background information, most of which never makes it into the book." Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast082010 Gary Shteyngart Tells a 'Super Sad True Love Story' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-news.htm#n081910 Retro-Prescience Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-news.htm#n081910 Gary Shteyngart Live Reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast081910r "...please like me, this will make up for Hebrew school if all of you like me.." Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast081910r Gary Shteyngart Live Interview at Bookshop Santa Cruz http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast081910i "...please like me, this will make up for Hebrew school if all of you like me.." Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast081910i Mark Pilkington Unleashes Weapons of Mass Deception http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-news.htm#n081810 "ECM+CIA=UFO" Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-news.htm#n081810 David Corbett and Barry Eisler for The Agony Column Live at Capitola Book Cafe, August 7, 2010 http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast081810 "This is NewSpeak." Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast081810 Howard Norman Asks 'What is Left the Daughter' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-news.htm#n081610 The Past Always Rises Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-news.htm#n081610 A 2010 Interview with Howard Norman http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast081610 "I'd wanted to write from the beginning an epistolary novel; this is just an epistolary novel that's consisting of one letter." Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-16-10-podcast.htm#podcast081610 James O'Neal Copies 'The Double Human' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-news.htm#n081210 Proceeding into the Future Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-news.htm#n081210 Barry Eisler and David Corbett Live at Capitola Book Café on August 7, 2010 http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-podcast.htm#podcast081210 "If anyone thinks it's absurd that the government might assassinate the founder of WikiLeaks, it's quite a bit less absurd than I wish it were..." -- Barry Eisler Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-podcast.htm#podcast081210 Joe R. Lansdale Takes Huck Finn to 'Dread Island' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-news.htm#n081110 "Classics Mutilated" Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-news.htm#n081110 Barry Eisler Reads at The Agony Column Live, August 7, 2010 http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-podcast.htm#podcast081110 "...they'll pick up that angle and run interference for us..." Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-podcast.htm#podcast081110 David Corbett Asks 'Do They Know I'm Running?' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-news.htm#n081010 Crossing Borders Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-news.htm#n081010 David Corbett Reads at The Agony Column Live on August 7, 2010 http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-podcast.htm#podcast081010 "These Families are making incredible sacrifices..." Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-podcast.htm#podcast081010 David Mitchell and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-news.htm#n080910 The World is Ever the World Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-news.htm#n080910 A 2010 Interview with David Mitchell http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-podcast.htm#podcast080910 "The periodic table of the human heart is still the same now as it was then." Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-09-10-podcast.htm#podcast080910 Tim Powers Sails 'On Stranger Tides' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-news.htm#n080610 History, Fantasy and the Reality of Reading Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-news.htm#n080610 A 2009 Interview with Tim Powers http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-podcast.htm#podcast080610 "...twenty things that are too cool not to use..." Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-podcast.htm#podcast080610 Christopher Fowler's Peculiar Crime Spree http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-news.htm#n080410 'Bryant and May Off the Rails' Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-news.htm#n080410 Thomas Frank Returns to Agony http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-podcast.htm#podcast080410 Newt Gingrich Alters History Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-podcast.htm#podcast080410 Robert M. Price Spins 'The Tindalos Cycle' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-news.htm#n080310 Terrorize, Horrify, Repeat Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-news.htm#n080310 A Short Chat with Gary Shteyngart http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-podcast.htm#podcast080310 "...the technology is outpacing our ability to absorb what it is doing to us..." Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-podcast.htm#podcast080310 A Second Tour Through 'The Passage' http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-news.htm#n080210 Sending Characters into Time Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-news.htm#n080210 A 2010 Interview With Justin Cronin http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-podcast.htm#podcast080210 "A novel is itself a kind of dream." Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:00:00 PDT http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2010/08-02-10-podcast.htm#podcast080210