S&L Podcast - #230 - Reading Makes You a Better Person, Says Science
/We cheer for Patrick Rothfuss winning the Hollywood game, jeer a little at Spielberg refusing to put a Delorean in the Ready Player One movie and peruse with careful academic curiosity a study showing the increase in empathy caused by reading.
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WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Bulleit
Veronica: Hendricks Gin and Tonic
QUICK BURNS
Rob: Patrick Rothfuss signed some kind of multi-media (Movie, TV And Video game?) deal with Lionsgate.
Louie: No Spielberg references in the Ready Player One film adaptation.
Robert: Helene Wecker posted on her Facebook page that there will be a sequel to The Golem and the Jinni to be titled The Iron Season. It's a ways off but I think the wait will be worth it.
Stephen: One of the authors I suggested for future interviews was Jen Williams. Well, her books are now going to be available in the USA, via Angry Robot books. The announcement was made this week on Barnes and Noble's website.
BARE YOUR SWORD
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Is this the modern fantasy 1984?
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