Welcome to a new episode of
The Book Report presented by
The Millions! In this holiday-themed episode,
Janet Potter and
Michael Schaub discuss the two most important things about Thanksgiving: movies and pie. Janet recommends three pie cookbooks:
The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie by
Paula Haney,
The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book by
Emily Elsen and
Melissa Elsen, and
Pies and Tarts for Dinner and Dessert by
Stephane Reynaud. Meanwhile, Michael, who only knows how to make one kind of pie (chocolate-pecan-bourbon) talks about
Our Secret Life in the Movies by
Michael McGriff and
J.M. Tyree.
Also discussed in this episode: aspirational baking, rhubarb pie, Janet's mockery of people from France and Texas, confirmation bias, Potemkin pies, The Criterion Collection, the 1980s,
Ronald Reagan,
Ratcatcher (dir.
Lynne Ramsay),
George Washington (dir.
David Gordon Green),
Antichrist (dir.
Lars von Trier),
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (dir.
Steve Carr),
The Beastie Boys,
David Letterman, and -- we all saw this coming --
Axl Rose.
Not discussed in this episode: cakes, quick breads, those French cookies
Proust was always droning on about,
Ashton Kutcher, pogs,
George Washington (the dude, not the movie), yams,
ThanksKilling (dir.
Jordan Downey), and
Izzy Stradlin.
Thanks for stopping by, and from all of us at
The Book Report and
The Millions, have a happy Thanksgiving. Unless you're in Canada. You had your shot in October. Not everything's about you, all right?
Discussed in this episode: Cloud Atlas, Ghostwritten, Number9Dream, and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, denial, grief, bargaining, the Rabbit Angstrom books, Roger’s Version and The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike, Radio On: A Listener’s Diary by Sarah Vowell, American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer.