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A Gregorio cast!! A debut novel from K. Chess following a pair of displaced refugees from an alternate timeline on earth has the dudes contemplating the difficulty of sci-fi and how a spoonful of sugar really does help the medicine go down. Minnesota rapper/drummer P.O.S. kills on his 2012 album "We Don't Even Live Here" and has the gents contemplating cancel culture and what makes a dance song a...

A vaxxed and hammered Daniel brings you this very special St. Patty's episode amplifying Black artists. Nuff said.

A depression cast, a perspective cast, whatever you make of it this was a fun one for us. This cast was chosen by Nick Gregorio and explores an ode to Jack Kirby with Mister Miracle by Tom King, Philadelphia natives Nothing and their recent aptly titled release The Great Dismal, and finally Treehouse Brewing's "Haze". we talk the value and role of the artist in our current culture, what it means t...

Dear listener, find a comfortable seat or treadmill or walking path and prepare to get frustrated and enlightened with us as we unpack postmodernist Italo Calvino's seminal work, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. It's a book about reading, being a reader, writing and being a writer...but is it? We take a trip to Argentina and hang out with the wholly unique and experimental artist Juana Molina be...

THEE Book. Record. Beer Holiday coast host Franco Fiorini joins the gents for this one as they dig into Gogol, your favorite authors favorite author, offering of a Ukrainian folk tale drenched in his own wit and told through the critical lens only Gogol could possess. They weep for the soul of a nation exposed through Pheobe Bridger's EP of Christmas cover songs and make it all better with the cau...

Season 5, Episode 2! The boys dive into Megan Giddings's sci-fi, horror, and very timely novel, LAKEWOOD, before discussing The Mars Volta's 2005 release, Frances the Mute. They wash down the heaviness of the book and record with Dogfish Head's Palo Santo Marron while pontificating the merits and pitfalls of small-batch breweries and pizzerias, and waiting in line. Happy Thanksgiving listeners! If...

Season 5!!! We made it!!!! A Nick Gregorio production brings us Edgar Allen Poe's classic "The Cask of Amontillado while Daniel brings us the Poe expertise. We dive into Ghost's anti-metal metal album Meliora. And all the dudes have their own autumnal brews. Nick M. sips on Harpoon brewery and Dunkin Donuts offering of the Dunkin Pumpkin. Daniel sucks down some Great Lakes Nosferatu and Gregorio c...

We finish our 4th year with one of our favorite writer's on as a guest! Kailey Tedesco, author of She Used to be on a Milkcarton, and Lizzie Speak, among others, chose Candice Wuehle's haunting "Death Industrial Complex," a poetry collection channeling late photographer Francesca Woodman. We also, dig into the synth-heavy (ala Little Feet, etc.) Purity Ring and their 2012 album Shrines along with...

This month's cast is brought to you by Gnick Gregorio. We've assembled in our respective studios with not one, but two guests! Author and editor of Trident Press, Nathaniel Kennon Perkins joins us to talk about indie publishing and his collection "The Way Cities Feel to Us Now." And, Cody Bluett of Dweller talks to us about their latest album "Aquarium." Crack open a *Mike's Hard Lemonade or spike...

Serendipity! Kismet! Fate! Chance! Like minds! Whatever the reason, or lack thereof, this was a very special cast. The gents has the very special pleasure of welcoming celebrated author Bud Smith to the cast for this one. Author of the novel "Teenager," memoir "Work" and short story collection "Double Bird," Bud is a humorous and very real voice in American literature. He weighs in on Mikhail Bulg...

Larry Brown was a firefighter for 16 years. Then he quit to write stories. This is a cast focused on his memoir about this time coupled with the lead singer of hardcore punk band Defeater's solo project "Alchoa" and Workhorse brewery's "Pure" light craft beer brewed using traditional Japanese sake ingredients and techniques. We dive into the metaphor of fire, following passion, and finding outlets...

Remote Cast No. 3: This one was a Daniel cast. Two sexy and sad offerings are discussed in Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body" and Jeff Buckley's "Grace." The dudes are not unified in their beer endeavour due to social distancing, but Gnick dipped into his stockpile and drinks and talks Levante Brewing's Tickle Parts. Tune in as we discuss love, loss, memory, 40 under 40 lists, and artists...

Gregorio dorkd out hard on this and gave us not one but TWO eu novels (one graphic!) in the Star Wars universe, Alphabet Squadron and Tie Fighter. He also picked Rush's seminal 2112 and a delightful beer named Light Speed from Toppling Goliath brewery. The dudes talk genre fiction, elitism, joy, and what the fuck it means to still care about things and do the thing in a pandemic. Hell yeah! Ode. T...

Remote quarantine cast with Nick M. and Daniel went surprisingly well given the conditions and topic, suicide. Camus' essay regarding suicide as the essential philosophical question is explored along with his suggestion that we imagine Sisyphus happy. Can we? Can you? Listen and find out. We discuss Cornell's lyrics, the importance of Superunknown for the band and the era, as well as the impact a...

Top 3 Book. Record. Beer casts brought together by the glory that is The Alchemist Luscious Imperial Stout. A graphic interpretation of the classic epic Beowulf and from there it only gets better. This was one for the ages, quite literally.

Nick M. picked this one. Our first memoir in Paul Lisicky's "The Narrow Door," covers nearly 30 years of a life of love, loss, and friendship. Goddamn that is such a reductive summary. What we find in this beautiful work is the nuance of feeling that comes from a thoughtful and poetic observer of one's own life. Lisicky pairs with Smith in this way as we are drawn into the pain of a life by way of...

"Zero out of zero pieces of flair because we don't do flair on Cohen," -Franco. This quote sums up another incredible calendar year and Holiday Cast with our great friend Franco Fiorini. A gorgeous posthumous album from Leonard Cohen brought the dudes together after various takes on Stewart O'nan's "Last Night at the Lobster." Some say we read too much into it, others thought it wasn't enough. Reg...

Episode two gets dark. The Black Friday cast has little to do with consumerism (except for the obvious {cough} pop music {cough}) and more to do with the a grotesque darkness that one needs to engage with to get through this thing we call life. The Book of X is for all of us one of the great masterworks of 2019 and perhaps this new millennia. It is a comment on the time in a world that belongs to...

It has been one of the great pleasures of my life to sit down with so many incredible people and talk about the things that keep life worth living every month. It has been 3 years and this feeling has yet to wane so I know it's got to be real. Unfortunately one of my favorites had to be absent for this particular cast but Gregorio was in our hearts as Daniel, myself, and our good friend Eric Weing...

The last episode of season 3 and Nick M. totally blew it on the book choice. Some teachable moments regarding what not to do when writing fiction permeates the first third of the cast but then he TOTALLY REDEEMS HIMSELF with the music choice of Annuals seminal debut lp "Be He Me." GNick then brings it home the gorgeous Vermont Pilsner from Lost Nation Brewing. In all seriousness, we here at Book....

After nearly 3 years the guys are finally revealing their back to school songs and stories. Each cast mate picked their favorite piece of literature to start the school year as well as the song that carries them into week one. Gregorio was kind enough to bring us back a Perfect Day IPA from his recent trip to Asheville Brewing Company down in North Kakalacky and the boys ponder what their perfect...

The fellas are joined by Jaime Fountaine—author of MANHUNT, host of Tire Fire, comedian, Danzig apologist—to talk Steven Dunn's POTTED MEAT, getting bumped for Janeane Garofalo, falling in holes, Danzig's lack of humor and self-awareness, and writing about those hard coming of age years. They wash it all down with Victory's No Brainer IPA.

The boys get into Garth Greenwell's beautiful story of new love, travel, and the inevitable end to said love. The discuss the merits, or lack thereof, of live albums, specifically Queen's 1979 release entitled "Live Killers!" The end this celebration of all the is different and beautiful during this month of pride with Anderson Valley's "Summer Solstice." Stay loving, stay lovely, and be you, beau...

The cast that almost wasn't! After an ER visit and a few weeks of recovery, all is well in the Book. Record. Beer family and the boys descend the Dupont street basement stairwell once more to embark on their FIRST POETRY CAST! Featuring the latest from philly poet Ryan Eckes, a look back at Offspring's 1994 release Smash, and 2SP Brewing's Circadian, the guys talk unions, global warming, and those...

A classic canon cast. These are a few of (Nick M.'s) favorite things. The guys dig into Steinbeck's folk tale "The Pearl," Led Zeppelin I, and the original Czech lager "Czechvar" better know in the Czech Republic as the original Budweiser. Nick drops a surprise jam of "Good Times, Bad Times" into the cast as recorded with his brother and cousin in a single impromptu take. Enjoy!