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259: Stephen Fishbach (ESCAPE!) & William Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES
Jun 26, 2026
Unknown duration
258: Ailsa Ross (HOVEL) and Jean Rhys' VOYAGE IN THE DARK
Jun 5, 2026
1h 16m 49s
258: Ailsa Ross (HOVEL) & Jean Rhys' VOYAGE IN THE DARK
Jun 5, 2026
Unknown duration
257: Reading Journal
May 15, 2026
17m 58s
256: Casey Scieszka (THE FOUNTAIN) & Natalie Babbitt's TUCK EVERLASTING
Apr 24, 2026
1h 07m 32s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/26/26 |  259: Stephen Fishbach (ESCAPE!) & William Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES | Two-time Survivor contestant, cohost of the Survivor podcast We Know Survivor, as well as the literary podcast Paraphrase, Stephen Fishbach drops onto the island SMDB and brings along the swashbuckling spirit of his novel Escape! As you might expect, Survivor is discussed, as is the jungle in general, and self-mythologizing, and then we tear into the savagery of William Golding’s classic, Lord of the Flies.For the drink recipe, every book mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-259Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 |  258: Ailsa Ross (HOVEL) and Jean Rhys' VOYAGE IN THE DARK✨ | literatureJean Rhys+3 | Ailsa Ross | PatreonDisaster Magic+2 | — | Ailsa RossJean Rhys+5 | — | 1h 16m 49s | |
| 6/5/26 | 258: Ailsa Ross (HOVEL) & Jean Rhys' VOYAGE IN THE DARK | Ailsa Ross uses the power of the internet to join Christopher and chat about the pleasure of destruction, letting mosquitoes bite, the cost of licensing museum photos, and other things too. Plus, she brings along a Jean Rhys novel that wasn’t Wide Sargasso Sea,Voyage in the Dark, and both enjoy the embattled, embittered voice.For the drink recipe, every book mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-258Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbmusic: Disaster Magichttps://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 |  257: Reading Journal✨ | readingbooks+3 | — | PatreonAcast+1 | SMDB | reading journalbook discussion+3 | — | 17m 58s | |
| 4/24/26 |  256: Casey Scieszka (THE FOUNTAIN) & Natalie Babbitt's TUCK EVERLASTING✨ | immortalityalcohol etymology+3 | Casey Scieszka | Spruceton InnAcast+4 | — | Casey ScieszkaThe Fountain+5 | — | 1h 07m 32s | |
| 4/10/26 |  255: Lior Torenberg (JUST WATCH ME) & Rufi Thorpe's MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES✨ | book discussionliterature+4 | Lior Torenberg | So Many Damn BooksPatreon+4 | — | Lior TorenbergRufi Thorpe+6 | — | 1h 10m 20s | |
| 3/17/26 |  254: Kathleen Boland (SCAVENGERS) & Joy Williams' THE QUICK AND THE DEAD✨ | novel discussionmother-daughter relationships+3 | Kathleen Boland | ScavengersThe Quick and the Dead | Utah | ScavengersThe Quick and the Dead+5 | — | 1h 17m 25s | |
| 2/27/26 |  253: Drew Broussard Runs By (Stephen King's THE RUNNING MAN & Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN)✨ | Stephen KingEdgar Wright+4 | Drew Broussard | Lit Hub RadioRough Draft+1 | — | Drew BroussardStephen King+5 | — | 1h 04m 26s | |
| 2/10/26 |  252: Reading Journal – Aimee Bender✨ | Aimee Benderbook club+3 | Aimee Bender | PatreonAcast+1 | — | Aimee Benderreading journal+3 | — | 23m 46s | |
| 12/17/25 |  251: Alix E. Harrow (THE EVERLASTING) & Nicola Griffith's MENEWOOD✨ | writingbook recommendations+3 | Alix E. Harrow | PatreonAcast+2 | — | Alix E. HarrowThe Everlasting+4 | — | 1h 03m 54s | |
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| 11/26/25 |  250: Sarah Interviews Christopher about 250 Episodes✨ | podcast productionbehind the scenes+3 | Sarah | PatreonSo Many Damn Books+2 | — | podcastinterview+5 | — | 37m 49s | |
| 11/5/25 |  249: Erin Somers (THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR) & Susie Boyt's LOVED AND MISSED✨ | millennial marriagebook discussion+3 | Erin Somers | The Ten Year AffairStay Up with Hugo Best+1 | — | Erin SomersThe Ten Year Affair+4 | — | 59m 07s | |
| 10/22/25 |  248: Patrick Ryan (BUCKEYE) & Christopher Isherwood's A SINGLE MAN✨ | literaturebook discussion+4 | Patrick Ryan | So Many Damn BooksPatreon+4 | — | BuckeyeA Single Man+6 | — | 1h 09m 04s | |
| 10/1/25 |  247: Mona Awad (WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY) & Kenneth Grahame's THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS | Mona Awad becomes the most frequent guest of So Many Damn Books with this appearance, chatting We Love You, Bunny, how it’s a good time to make fun of yourself, and the pleasure of getting too deep into a narrative, even if you can’t find your way back out. Plus, she brings along the classic The Wind in the Willows, and talks why she almost didn’t want to recommend it.Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-247music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/12/25 |  246: Kerry Cullen (HOUSE OF BETH) & Nicky Gonzalez's MAYRA | Kerry Cullen drops in, in person, so I smoke a cocktail (and forget to mention that Manhattans contain vermouth). We get to talking about working in books and then writing a book, shocking your writing group, and the best places to write. And then we talk about Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez, another book about a character revisiting their past and finding ghosts. Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-246music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/27/25 |  245: Leonie Swann (BIG BAD WOOL, THREE BAGS FULL, AGNES SHARPE) & Robert Jackson Bennett's THE TAINTED CUP | Held it together pretty well interviewing Leonie Swann, the author of one of my favorite novels of all time, Three Bags Full, about her recently translated sequel Big Bad Wool, and all the pleasures of stepping back into the river a changed person. Plus, she brings along The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, a surprisingly fun fantasy detective novel series beginning.Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-245music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/31/25 |  244: Favorite Reads of 2025 (so far) | We only have five months of the year left, so that means it’s time to look back and reminisce. It’s always a good time to look back and reminisce, baby, you better believe it. Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-244music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/8/25 |  243: Allison King (THE PHOENIX PENCIL COMPANY) & Anton Hur's TOWARD ETERNITY | Pencils UP, everyone! Point their sharpened points straight to the sky, because Allison King, author of the endlessly inventive Phoenix Pencil Company, drops by the virtual library to talk all things pencils and magic and the one book that changed her life. Plus, she brings along Anton Hur’s novel in stories, about AI and robots and poetry, Toward Eternity.Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-242music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/13/25 |  242: Drew Returns (to revisit "Top 6 of 2015" and chat books aimlessly) | Former co-host of the show, current writer and bookseller and host of The Lit Hub Podcast Drew Broussard stops by to chat about our Top 6 of 2015 episode from 10 years ago, plus some other random bookish thoughts. As listenable as a quaffable white wine is quaffable!Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-242music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/25 |  241: Tyler Wetherall (AMPHIBIAN) and Terjei Vesaas' THE ICE PALACE | Tyler Wetherall, author and sole force behind the indispensable literary reading series newsletter, Reading the City visits the Damn Library in person in order to have a very involved mezcal margarita, and chat about her novel Amphibian, and mermaids, her memoir No Way Home, and the fun part of research for a new project. And then we also get into (and spoil, to some extent, if you go for that sort of thing) The Ice Palace by Terjei Vesaas, and how it inspired some of the shape of Amphibian.Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-241music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/2/25 |  240: Kate Folk (SKY DADDY) and Marlen Haushofer's THE WALL | Kate Folk flies into the Zoom Damn Library and boy are her arms tired! That’s an airplane joke, and it’s very fitting, actually, because she’s here to discuss her madcap Sky Daddy, as well as the more subdued but no less crazy The Wall by Marlen Haushofer. Put your tray tables up and your seatbacks in the full upright position, it’s time to listen!Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-240music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/15/25 |  239: Jeanne Thornton (A/S/L) & Anton Solomonik's REALISTIC FICTION | Jeanne Thornton physically drops by the Damn Library to talk A/S/L, her incredible novel about amateur video game coders in the 90s and how they’re doing a couple decades years later, and also a bit of her novel Summer Fun as well, because why not. Plus, she brings along Anton Solomonik’s Realistic Fiction, an excitingly strange and very funny short story collection.Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-239music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 3/25/25 |  238: Kate Slotover (of The Book Club Review) Returns, Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME VOL 1 | Kate Slotover of The Book Club Review drops in again, virtually this time, to talk about a visit to a posh library, her reading life of late, and Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume Vol. 1, and also we talk about Volume 2 some. Get on the train bound for November 18th!Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-238music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 3/4/25 |  237: 21 Long Books to Sink Into | A list of 22 long books because sometimes you need to get lost in a book, like really lost, like 400 pages in and not even halfway there and every tree looks just like the one that came before. But you’re happy about it, because getting lost in a book was the point. That kind of lost. Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-237music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/13/25 |  236: 22 Short Books for Short Attention Spans | A list of 22 short books for short attention spans because we all hey look at that dog! he’s trying to catch a butterfly!!Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-235music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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