Caleb. Jared. C.H. and Justin are here to provide their extended and irreverant review of Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's novel THE NEST.

01 - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

The guys take the podcast on the road, recording from a hotel room in downtown Tampa. Caleb, C.H., Justin, and Jared get together to discuss Mark Leyner's GONE WITH THE MIND. Justin even passes out in the middle of recording. Enjoy!

03 - GONE WITH THE MIND by Mark Leyner

Caleb and Justin return after a break to talk about BREAM GIVES ME HICCUPS by Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland, The Social Network, The End of the Tour) over a liter of wine.

06 - BREAM GIVES ME HICCUPS by Jesse Eisenberg

Justin and Caleb manage to find time to read and drunkenly review THE HANDMAID's TALE by Margaret Atwood.

08 -THE HANDMAID's TALE by Margaret Atwood

This episode was recorded months ago, but we waited until closer to Elle's release date to post! Justin and Caleb again tackle a book written from a young girl's point of view, and offer the stories of how they lost their virginity. Elle Nash's novel is darkly sexy, and the committee (two drunk dudes) really enjoyed it.

18 - ANIMALS EAT EACH OTHER by Elle Nash

*BONUS* This episode is a free preview of a new Lit-Tapes project, the DRUNKEN VHS REVIEW podcast. Visit www.patreon.com/littapes and for $3.00 a month you'll get an episode of the DRUNKEN VHS REVIEW, where Caleb, his brother Jake, and sometimes his wife Brittany will watch an obscure movie from the 1990s, drink a bit, and then decide whether or not it holds up.

In our free preview, we discuss THE PAGEMASTER, a 1994 film starring Macaulay Culkin and Christpher Lloyd.

*BONUS* The Pagemaster (1994) from the DRUNKEN VHS REVIEW

Caleb invites his brother Jacob onto the podcast to discuss "One Gram Short" by Etgar Keret. This story follows a young man who wants to impress a girl who works at a café, but is too anxious to ask her out, so he sets forth to find a little bit of weed. Caleb and Jacob share their own pot stories, as well as a time they went a little too hard for a girl they didn't know that well.

28 - ONE GRAM SHORT by Etgar Keret

This week Justin and Caleb read and discussed THE EMPEROR OF SHOES, a novel that follows Alex, a Jewish-American heir to a shoe empire in China. What we thought was going to be a book about shoes turned out to be a book about revolution. Give it a listen and as always, follow us on Twitter (littapes), Instagram (Littapes69) and subscribe on your favorite podcast listening device.

29 - THE EMPEROR OF SHOES by Spencer Wise

On today's episode, the guys discuss an issue of an online literary magazine. WOHE LIT is a dangerous entity plaguing the interspace but Justin and Caleb read it anyway, and discussed their favorite pieces, and how the issue felt as a whole.

32 - WOHE LIT 2  by some scoundrels

For episode 33, Caleb and Justin were joined by the very wonderful and talented Rae DelBianco. Rae is the author of ROUGH ANIMALS, a novel you can buy anywhere and one we reviewed on episode 24 of this podcast. She joins us to discuss OVENMAN by Jeff Parker. Our discussion covers voice in literature, novel writing, writing with Netflix in mind, and what we look for in the books we read. Follow Rae on Instagram @rae.delbianco and give her the love she deserves.

33 - OVENMAN by Jeff Parker (w/ special guest Rae DelBianco

STEPHEN FLORIDA is a novel about a college wrestler who is orphaned and puts all his eggs in one basket. It's also about a lot of other shit. We think we're right on track when we say STEPHEN FLORIDA is the cousin to Jeff Parker's OVENMAN.

39 - STEPHEN FLORIDA by Gabe Habash

This week, Justin and Caleb discuss SHOELESS JOE by W.P. Kinsella, the book that inspired the film FIELD OF DREAMS starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, and Ray Liota. Ray Kinsella is a below average farmer who hears a voice tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He takes it to mean, if he tears up a large portion of his crop and builds a baseball field, the deceased Shoeless Joe Jackson will return to play baseball. The guys discuss what they though worked in the book and how the movie holds up in comparison. Then they announce some news for the new year.

43 - SHOELESS JOE by W. P. Kinsella (Field of Dreams)

We're back for 2019 with a few new updates. For one, we're officially a Bridge Eight Press production, so find all of our episodes at www.bridgeeight.com

Justin and Caleb read another Clay Reynolds prize winner that turns out to be a little more erotic than they had anticipated. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

44 - BLINDSIDED by Chelsea Catherine

Justin chose "All the Rivers" from this month's New Yorkers. Then Amos Oz died. Neither of us had read his work before, but decided to continue with the podcast anyway. We chat about absurd plots and then we try a citrus beer from Cigar City Brewery.

45 - ALL THE RIVERS by Amos Oz

It's the FIFTIETH episode of the Drunken Book Review Podcast and we're bringing back an old friend! C. H. Hooks is the author of Bridge Eight's debut novel, ALLIGATOR ZOO-PARK MAGIC and original member of the podcast. They spend some time chatting about the book before Caleb and Justin ask each other the best questions they could think of.

50 - A Semi-Annual Celebration feat. C. H. Hooks

Another month, another New Yorker story. Neither of us had heard of Yiyun Li before, but we read her short story in this month's New Yorker. Justin burns his bacon and interrupts the podcast to save Caleb's house, then the guys try a beer from Kona Brewing Company. Drink yourself a book. Read yourself a beer.

53 - ALL WILL BE WELL by Yiyun Li

This isn't the first book from Burrow Press to get the Drunken Book Review treatment (Pinkies, Clean Time), but it may be the most well-received. A slim collection of stories, Train Shots does a lot of what we're looking for in a story, and what's that? Well listen and find out.

56 - TRAIN SHOTS by Vanessa Blakeslee

Nurse your Cinco hangover by listening to a drunken book review of A DOG BETWEEN US by duncan b. barlow, a heartbreaking novel about the variations of loss. Justin and Caleb chat about human tragedy, how we deal with the things that hurt, and how those things ripple into everyday relationships. As always, share with your friends, leave a nice review, and come back for more next week.

59 - A DOG A BETWEEN US by duncan b. barlow

This week we're joined by local Jacksonville book nerd Abby McCall to discuss Amy Hempel's new collection of stories SING TO IT. Caleb has been reading Amy Hempel's work for over a decade, but Justin and Abby are new to her work. They chat about apples, caring about your sentences, and what that means for your reading experience.

60 - SING TO IT by Amy Hempel (feat. Abby McCall)

We've returned to nonfiction this week as we discuss a collection of essays on race, culture, and boundaries in America. Caleb and Justin find themselves in a broader sociological discussion on what it means to be lower-income white males with privilege and maybe get off track here and there.

61 - NOTES FROM NO MAN'S LAND by Eula Biss

For this bonus episode, Caleb joined the rest of society and watched Game of Thrones (the first 5 seasons so far). They take some time to talk about what he's thinking and Caleb tries to figure out what it is that people like about this show.

BONUS - Caleb Gets Cultured - Game of Thrones

For our monthly New Yorker episode, we read a new short story from Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad. We briefly talk about violence, systematic power, and then we try a new beer from Coppertail Brewery. This episode was edited significantly thanks to the belligerence of Justin Hall. Drink yourself a book, and read yourself some beer.

62 - THE MATCH by Colson Whitehead

The cover has been making its away around the internet, so we decided to give it a read. From war medic to heroine addict, CHERRY follows a no-good teenager as he deals with no sense of direction and no reason to live. There are a lot of fucks, but none are given, and we decide whether or not this book is worth reading.

63 - CHERRY by Nico Walker

64 - THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS by David James Poissant

Caleb finished Game of Thrones and is feeling absurdly cultured. They talk about the ending, what they would have done differently, and how this show fits within others of its genre, style, and cultural relevancy. Was getting cultured worth it for Caleb? Listen and find out.

BONUS - Caleb Gets Cultured - 2 Games 2 Thrones

Caleb shot-gunned a Steel Reserve before recording today's episode.

65 - WHISKEY & RIBBONS by Leesa Cross-Smith

For the end of the month New Yorker episode, we talk about a weird story from Andrea Lee and try a new beer.

66 - THE CHILDREN by Andrea Lee

We welcome local member of the literati and spectacular editor Jessica Hatch to talk about MOSTLY DEAD THINGS by Kristen Arnett, whom Caleb refers to as his "Orlando spirit animal."

67 - MOSTLY DEAD THINGS by Kristen Arnett (Featuring Jessica Hatch)

Justin and Caleb talk often about how much they love Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, but do they feel the same about her new collection of stories? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z.

68 - ORANGE WORLD by Karen Russell

69 - THE MISTER by EL James - NICE

Join Caleb and Justin on tour as they chat about PANIC YEARS by Daniel DiFranco, a novel about Paul, his approaching 30s, and his last rodeo as an aspiring musician. They chat about how the book makes them feel, the kind of band they think Qualia may be, and other bull shit, too.

70 - PANIC YEARS by Daniel DiFranco

Emma Cline's novel THE GIRLS was one of the very first books we read for the podcast, so her return was inevitable, as soon as we saw her name in the New Yorker. We read her story "Son of Friedman" and try a new beer!

71 - SON OF FRIEDMAN by Emma Cline

We take a trip Down Under then to NYC then back to Australia then... somewhere with The Australian by Emma Smith-Stevens. We chat briefly about some previous Dzanc books we read and what we thought about this debut (hardback??) from a cool writer.

72 - THE AUSTRALIAN by Emma Smith-Stevens

"Cat Person" was the first story ever to go "viral" and was the subject of an earlier episode between Caleb and his wife Brittany. When Kristen Roupenian's collection came out, it was a no-brainer for us. But does the book live up to the hype created by "Cat Person"?

73 - YOU KNOW YOU WANT THIS by Kristen Roupenian

The Drunken Book Review Podcast is an irreverent review of literature by Justin Hall and Caleb Michael Sarvis.

First and foremost, this podcast is a candid, though drunken, discussion of modern (and mostly popular) literature. We are offensive, unfiltered, and while we try our best to stay focused, we will get distracted, yell over one another, and perhaps disappear at times to settle disagreements with hand-to-hand combat. It’s the Hemingway in us.

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