Sometimes we do other things!
Here is a link to an essay one of us wrote called Suggestions for a Better Life, at Word Riot. And here is a link to a short story the other of us wrote called Fantasies, at Monkeybicycle. Finally,...
View ArticleIntroducing Blurbs in the Wild
Hey, Internet: scroll up a little. Look at the top of this page: there’s something new. Today, we’re rolling out a new feature on the website called Blurbs in the Wild. Go click on it. Or, actually,...
View ArticleSupplementary reading
A listener emailed last week to ask about our writing: Hey, after listening to you guys in the car for months, I’m curious about your work. Would it be too weird to ask you to compile some links of...
View ArticleBonus Episode for Donors: Rush Limbaugh, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims
Hey there, regular listeners. Fair warning: This post is kind of a tease. We put together a special bonus episode this year to reward donors to our annual fund drive. So you’re only getting this one if...
View ArticleBonus Episode: Copyright, Creative Commons, and Online Piracy
At the suggestion of a listener, in this special bonus episode we’re discussing self-publishing, copyright, and how evolving digital technologies might influence both writers and publishers. Should...
View ArticleAWP 2014: Reports From the Writer-Industrial Complex
While Mike skipped out on this year’s AWP conference, Tom has made the voyage to Seattle, and will be filing periodic updates from inside the belly of the beast. He’ll have recaps of the day’s best and...
View ArticleT-shirt design poll
As we sadly near the end of the Summer of Shorts, it’s time for us to honor that unsung hero of all of our wardrobes: the t-shirt. Thanks to listener, writer, and artist Killian Czuba, we now have 5...
View ArticleVote for a book! And give us feedback!
Hey, everybody. First off, a big thanks for making our fund drive a success. When we set a goal of $5,000, we worried it might be a little ambitious, but you proved us wrong. Your donations are a vote...
View ArticleBonus Episode 2015 – The People’s Choice
[UPDATED 4/9: the poll has been updated, eliminating one book option, not so much because it had been hijacked by a small group of people–we encourage multiple votes, and people championing a book– but...
View ArticleBonus episode final voting
Because we’re making the rules up as we go along, and because the first round of bonus episode voting offered an unwieldy number of options, we’re running a second round of voting here, in which we’ve...
View Article2015: The Book Fight! Year in Review
As professionally licensed “content creators,” we’re statutorily required to assemble a year-end list of all our favorite and least favorite things from the past twelve months of doing our show. Here...
View ArticleAWP Extra: Elisa Gabbert
Hey, friends! We’ve got a bonus mini-episode for you today, a quick conversation with poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert, recorded at the AWP conference in Los Angeles last week. We talked to Elisa about...
View ArticleBonus Episode: Matthew Vollmer
A special mid-week bonus episode for you, Book Fight fans. Tom recently traveled to Blacksburg, Virginia, for a conference at Virginia Tech, where he sat down with Matthew Vollmer, author of...
View ArticleBonus Episode: NaNoWriMo 2016
How many words did you write in the past month? Was it fifty thousand? If not, then what’s up with that, slacker? All across this great land of ours, participants in National Novel Writing Month have...
View Article2016: The Book Fight! Year in Review
Well, friends, it’s been another year, and we’ve produced another year’s worth of content. So much content! Honestly, if we stop and think about it for too long, it starts to make us tired. Malcolm...
View ArticleBonus Episode: AWP 2017 with Lyz Lenz
Surprise! Here’s a special mid-week bonus episode featuring Lyz Lenz, the new managing editor for The Rumpus. Lyz is also a writer (we talked about one of her essays back in Episode 102), as well as a...
View ArticleBook Fight After Dark, Free Preview (full episode available to subscribers)
Hey, everybody! Today marks the debut of our new Book Fight After Dark series, which will be available to anyone who subscribes to our Patreon at $5 a month or more. We’re moving to this model, instead...
View ArticleTechnical Difficulties: Please Stand By
Hi, friends! Just wanted to let you know that we’re having some technical troubles with the files for this week’s episode. Mike is currently running some recovery software on his laptop in the hopes...
View ArticleBook Fight After Dark: A Caveman in Love
We’re giving you a special mid-week bonus episode, Book Fight friends, on account of how much we love you, and also as a bit of a teaser for our ongoing Patreon series, Book Fight After Dark, which you...
View ArticleBonus: Snooki, A Shore Thing
We’re taking a quick break between seasons of the show, getting our ducks in a row for Summer School–in which we’ll be reading books, stories, and essays that we feel like we should definitely have...
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