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Revisions, How Our Favorite Books Change Us

Jen Nails

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Frequency: 1 episode/1d. Total Eps: 9

Las Vegas-Clark County Librarian/author Jen Nails chats with authors and comedians about why certain books from growing up made such a splash in their lives!

Season One launches December 21, featuring actors John Ross Bowie (Big Bang Theory), Negin Farsad (The Muslims are Coming), and Dana Snyder (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), authors Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (The War That Saved My Life), Chris Grabenstein (Mr. Lemoncello's Library), and Ellen Hopkins (Crank), and local librarian Kelsey Mazmanyan.

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🇺🇸 USA - books
26/12/2024
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"The Heartwarming Story of a Boy and his Cookbook," Dana Snyder and the ham loaf (Betty Crocker, 1969)

Season 1 · Episode 8

Saturday, December 21, 2024 • Duration 42:17

Comedian/voice actor Dana Snyder (SpongeBob, Aqua Teen Hunger Force) discusses his attachment to the Foxfire Books, ham loaves, vintage menus, and collecting books that he's written in, inside the margins.

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"The Frog-March," Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and the Tasha-Tudor-illustrated Secret Garden (1911)

Season 1 · Episode 7

Saturday, December 21, 2024 • Duration 45:29

Newbery winner Kim (The War That Saved My Life, Fighting Words) recalls taking the ten bucks her grandma sent her during freshman year at Smith and buying a copy of the Secret Garden (instead of beer or ramen).

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"I Didn't Even Know You Could Do It For Fun," Negin Farsad discovers Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

Season 1 · Episode 6

Saturday, December 21, 2024 • Duration 40:15

Superstar comedian Negin Farsad (How to Make White People Laugh, Fake the Nation) discusses growing up Muslim American in Palm Springs but learning the bones of comedy from Roth's Portnoy, a teenaged schmegegge from Newark.

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"For the Dweebs," Chris Grabenstein discovers MAD Magazine (1952)

Season 1 · Episode 5

Saturday, December 21, 2024 • Duration 39:17

NYT Bestseller (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Stinky's Stories) Chris shares his joyful discovery in seventh grade of MAD Magazine which he subscribed to as a kid, back when the mag came in the mail wrapped in a brown paper bag (like porn).

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The 1989 Super Bowl ad that Chris worked on!

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"There's Hope on the Far Side," Ellen Hopkins discovers The Hobbit (1937)

Season 1 · Episode 4

Saturday, December 21, 2024 • Duration 41:15

NYT Bestseller and most banned author Hopkins (Crank, Sync) shares her sixth-grade discovery of Tolkien's classic and explores how the novel influenced her development as a writer.

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"I Am Very Young," John Ross Bowie discovers Judy Blume's Then Again, Maybe I Won't (1971)

Season 1 · Episode 3

Saturday, December 21, 2024 • Duration 37:09

Notorious JRB (No Job for a Man, Big Bang Theory) finds himself in Blume's Tony Miglione, who battles anxiety and panic during the year that his dad strikes it rich and his family moves from Jersey to Long Island.

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"This is Something You Should Know," Kelsey discovers Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)

Season 1 · Episode 2

Saturday, December 21, 2024 • Duration 44:21

Fellow librarian Kelsey Mazmanyan shares what happens when she and her stepdad compete to finish Goblet of Fire first.

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"The Girl in the Mirror," Jen discovers Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Brave (1975)

Season 1 · Episode 1

Saturday, December 21, 2024 • Duration 11:41

Welcome to Revisions.

In this first episode, I will talk about trying to impress my third grade teacher, Mrs. Cormier, and discovering the book that opened the door to reading for me: Ramona the Brave, the book that opened the door to reading for me.

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Revisions Teaser

Monday, December 9, 2024 • Duration 02:56

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