Our April podcast sessions are now up for free download, and we actually manage to stay sober and mostly on task this month. We cover a broad range of books, both new and old, chat about Amazon’s purchase of Goodreads, the accusations kerfuffle around Jane Goodall’s upcoming (maybe) book, and hope that if Jim Carrey does a book tour to promote his new book, he gives all his readings by pretending to talk with his butt cheeks.
No Drunk Review this month (you can look forward to Rob Zombie’s Lords of Salem in May), but we did play another round of of the surprisingly popular Kakutani game.
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The remainder of our AWP ‘casts are now up for your listening pleasure. Leading the docket: Marc’s drunk review of Newt Gingrich’s nearly indigestible historical novel about George Washington. He also recites some poetry, and teaches the suddenly-sonorous Aaron Block what shotgunning is.
Then, we cap off AWP 2013 by bringing in some friends for a special bonus episode. Eric took the liberty of going through the AWP panel schedule and picking out the dumbest names (“1963: 50 Years Later” / “Looking for Real-Life Humberts: The Unreliable Narrator in Creative Nonfiction”), and we, somewhat–sorry–sloppily, share them with you.
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We had a great time at AWP last week, talking books with friends old and new. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hi. It did get a little boring behind that table at times, so we brought the Page Count on the road. This month’s episode is split between the 3 days of AWP. Check them out on iTunes, or stream them below. We cover tons of books, interview a number of interesting people, and of course get a little silly.
Stay tuned to our iTunes feed next week, as we have some special AWP After Hours episodes we’re going to release every few days, including the hotly anticipated Drunk Review of Newt Gingrich’s Victory at Yorktown. Poor Marcos had to suffer through that monstrosity, but Aaron rewards him by trying on mic to shotgun a beer for the very first time. #teamhardcore
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We hope you have enjoyed a festive December, whatever your holiday of choice may be. The final episodes of The Page Count’s 12 Podcasts of Christmas are now live. We hope you’ll forgive the deterioration that happened as our long day of recording podcasts for you progressed. If you enjoy this even 1% as much as we enjoyed recording it, we couldn’t be happier. Thanks for reading and listening, and thanks for 3 great years; we look forward to all the fun to come as we set out on the site’s fourth. See you in 2013!
Mazel tov,
Aaron, Eric, Marc, Nico, and Sean
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[UPDATE: The Drunk Review of Gorilla Beach is now available too.]
The latest edition of the Page Count Podcast is now live.
This time around we discuss the the future of the novel, the idea of book remixing, and spend a good deal of time talking about David Foster Wallace and Bret Easton Ellis. Oh, and Marc (the new host) makes the gang play Hot or Not with Emily Dickinson. We still cover a number of books in the What Are We Reading section too.
If you’re chomping at the bit for our next DRUNK REVIEW (the last one had over 750 downloads!), check back later in the week. Nico had to read Snooki’s Gorilla Beach, and made his personal pals drink horrible concoctions while he tore the book down. The DRUNK REVIEW will download from the same podcast feed/subscription as Episode 8.
You can either stream them from the player below, or you can find us free on iTunes or your favorite podcast player by searching for “Page Count.”
We’ve gone and done it again. We’re happy to finally release the third issue of our lit mag, C4. This issue features all new stories, poems, essays, and art from a wide range of talented contributors.
You can read more about it, and download the ebook (in a variety of non-DRM formats to fit every ereader) for free, over on our Digital Press page. You’ll find previous issues and the awesome Chamber Four Fiction Anthology over there as well, also for free.
If you want to skip straight to the fancy online edition, which also includes a section of original visual art, click here.
And if paper books are still more your thing, you can order the paperback edition from the Harvard Bookstore and be reading it tomorrow.
Enjoy! If you have any questions, or just want to give us some feedback, we’d love to heard from you: info@chamberfour.com.
Marc Velasquez, our resident Catholic, got the unenviable task of reading and reviewing Heaven is for Real, in which an Evangelical pastor exploits his sick child to sell books about Jesus.
Luckily for Marc, we allowed 40′s and chicken wings while doing his audio review. WriteByNights‘s Dave Duhr joins the Page Count gang while Marc expounds on this infuriating book. Fun and games abound at the Burpos’s expense, Dave takes an on-mic pee, there’s some bible lessons that incorporate Moby Dick and the Godshocker™ and Marc reveals himself as perhaps the best human being here at C4.
If you already subscribe to the Page Count podcast, check your iTunes, the DRUNK REVIEW bonus episode should be waiting for you. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can get all our episodes past and future for free from iTunes here. You can also stream it below.
The latest edition of the Page Count Podcast is now live.
This time around we discuss the purpose of book reviewing, the nature of dishonesty when it comes to literature, and whether Jonah Lehrer became an ass when he fabricated that Dylan quotation, or whether he was always an ass. We also talk about whether it’s worth someone’s time to write a negative book review, whether it’s OK to discuss the writer when discussing a book, and we’ll get into the usual book recommendations and lively banter.
You can either stream it from the player below, or you can find us on iTunes or your favorite podcast player by searching for “Page Count.”
Howdy y’all. In case you didn’t know, we’ve been recording a podcast for a few months now. It’s called The Page Count (Bookâke couldn’t gain enough favor). It’s still a work in progress, but we’ve posted to the internet all the same. You can subscribe through iTunes here. We don’t really care if you listen or not–it’d be nice if you did–but we’d certainly appreciate if you’d subscribe to help get our numbers up. We talk about the books we’re reading, books we think you should read, issues in the publishing world, as well as plenty of off-color nonsense.
Now’s a good as time as any to join in, since we finally got the mics working properly for episode 5 and the recording sounds decidedly not subterranean. It will be available on Friday, and if you subscribe it will be right there waiting for you in your iTunes. (If you hate iTunes, you can pull it straight from the RSS feed.)
In our previous episode, we watched, then broke down the terrible Age of the Dragons, in which Danny Glover plays an over-the-top Ahab obessed with vengeance against a white dragon. Most importantly, we learned Marc Velasquez does a bang up Danny Glover impression.
For episode 5, we’ve decided to bring more literary-tinged nonsense, this time focusing on Fifty Shades of Grey. As part of our Junk Novel Roulette game, Aaron Block “won” the unenviable task of reading and reviewing E.L. James’s smutty fanfic phenomenon. What what better way to do it than down a whole bunch of hard cider and Island Blue Pucker then let your friends record your drunken rant. To make it a bit more accessible it’s broken off into a separate download–but still in the podcast feed. Whet your whistle with the video trailer above, and look for the audio download as well as full JNR “review” and the rest of episode #5 on Friday.
As some of the more observant of you may have noticed, we quietly added a podcast section to the site a couple months back. This is because, for some crazy reason, we galoots at Chamber Four decided to sit around and record ourselves talk about books.
The third episode is live today, and if you’re brave enough, you can give it a listen; braver, you can hear all three. Episodes of The Page Count are available (for free of course) on iTunes here, if you hit the subscribe button, you’ll get a new episisode every month, plus a few bonus episodes, like the upcoming book/movie club (not-sucky name suggestions welcome) on The Age of Dragons, which is a B-movie fantasy interpretation of Moby Dick. You can even click the handy star rater and judge us on the spot. If you hate iTunes, there is a direct RSS feed here.
We’ve had a lot of fun making these, and we hope you enjoy them. There are still plenty of kinks to work out. It won’t take you long to discover we don’t have any sound engineers amongst us. We’re also still trying to gauge just how much beer consumption is acceptable while recording a podcast. But we do talk a whole lot about books, and it’s going a little smoother with each successive episode. We hope you’ll join us.
Our April podcast sessions are now up for free download, and we actually manage to stay sober and mostly on task this month. We cover a broad range of books, both new and old, chat about Amazon’s purchase of Goodreads, the accusations kerfuffle around Jane Goodall’s upcoming (maybe) book, and hope that if Jim Carrey does a book tour to promote his new book, he gives all his readings by pretending to talk with his butt cheeks.
