Books in This Episode

• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
• Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
• Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (I can’t believe I mispronounced his name!)
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• The Founding Fish by John McPhee
• The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
• Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
• Frommer’s Maui 2008 by Jeanette Foster
• Fodor’s Maui 2008 by Amanda Theunissen
• Kiss Me Quick Before I Shoot by Guy Magar
• Shut Up and Dance! The Joy of Letting Go of the Lead On the Dance Floor and Off by Jamie Rose
• Murder Rap by Greg Kading
• The Little Russian by Susan Sherman
• Pulling Up Stakes: Stepping into Freedom by Harriet Wrye
• The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
• Girlvert: A Porno Memoir by Oriana Small

Movies in This Episode

• Adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze

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