denver book club – The Inside Flap: A Weekly Book Podcast

Inside Chat: Taking Pepper Spray To The Face With Don Bentley

March 8, 2021March 7, 2021 by Laura Medicus Interiors

Today we chat with Don Bentley about his new Matt Drake thriller The Inside Man, the two types of military pilots, the importance of communicating about PTSD, being the crazy guy who reads all of his Goodreads reviews, how he visualizes his big action set pieces, what it’s like getting pepper sprayed, why training is so important for combat, quoting Omar Little, and how Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie ever made.

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Inside Chat: Breaking Chairs with Robert Jones, Jr.

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 by Laura Medicus Interiors

Today we are joined by the unstoppable Robert Jones, Jr. for an excellent conversation about his new novel The Prophets, being inspired by Toni Morrison, feeling the pain of his characters, watching horror movies to decompress, the reason he used Biblical names, why it’s important to know your flowers, and how dancing to Janet Jackson led to a broken dining room chair. Plus – Dave & Laura are still in search of an HVAC tech, preferably one without a predilection for Jim Beam.

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Inside Chat: Reading Between The Liner Notes With Marcus J Moore

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 by Laura Medicus Interiors

Today we are joined by Marcus J Moore for a fun conversation about his new book The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, what makes Kendrick stand out musically, Kendrick’s involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement, the meditational mantra of “Alright,” the importance of telling your own story, talking for hours to Kendrick’s creative writing teacher, reading the liner notes, and why he’s listening to nothing but old 70’s Jazz right now.

Dave performs as his alter ego MC Med for his students:

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Inside Chat: Concealed Weapons with LS Hawker

October 18, 2020October 18, 2020 by Laura Medicus Interiors

We’re joined by the fabulous LS Hawker for a fun conversation about her books, opening up a pub during a pandemic, creating fitness videos in the 90s where the babies are the weights, working as a Kmart portrait photographer, writing with her daughter, basement exorcisms, the power of acupuncture, and the knife she keeps in her bra.

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Creating Mayhem With The Villainous Natalie Zina Walschots

September 25, 2020 by Laura Medicus Interiors

An “Inside Chat” edition! We are joined by Natalie Zina Walschots for a fun conversation about her hilarious and semi-autobiographical novel Hench, how she always rooted for the villains, using math to calculate the disastrous damage wreaked by superheroes, cloaks, her gleeful affinity for body horror, her “terrible” musical theatre background, and her screaming territorial cat.

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Episode 90- POWs & American Girl Dolls with Jessica Pearce Rotondi

August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 by Laura Medicus Interiors

We’re joined by Jessica Pearce Rotondi for a conversation about her riveting book What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers, her family’s 36 year search for her Uncle Jack, finding a CIA source at her book club, her memorable trip to Laos, and her adolescent obsession with learning history from American Girl doll books. We also recommend: Broken Genius by Drew Murray, The Boys’ Club by Erica Katz, and Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke. Audiobook of the week is Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall. Plus – Dave is a virtual NBA fan, Laura is weirded out while back to school shopping and Andrew made the Sunday Denver Post.

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Ep. 4 She Rides Shotgun, Rising Man, Ugly American

December 30, 2018November 28, 2019 by Laura Medicus Interiors

In episode 4 our heroes, Dave, Andrew and Laura, take a call from Charles Dickens who was upset at their critique of his Tale of Two Cities. Andrew announces a plan to mail a book to any listener that needs a book recommendation. Dave tells a story about two drunk guys and a drone in his backyard at dusk and, yet again, all three of them are annoyed by other people.

Books reviewed in this episode are: A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee, She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper, The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. Audiobook of the week is a full cast production of Neil Gaiman’s charming The Graveyard Book.

mike myers doll — Because what doesn’t say Christmas like a life size Mike Myers doll? Yes, this is what Andrew gave his 7 year old this year. Listen to the show this week for more!

Other books mentioned this week were Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe and T.H. White’s The Once and Future King.

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Ep. 3 Quicker, Last Night Lobster, Mink River

December 23, 2018November 28, 2019 by Laura Medicus Interiors

In episode 3 (our best episode to date!), our heroes, Dave, Andrew and Laura, discuss why Andrew can’t have fruit delivered to his office, why one of Dave’s students got up in the middle of class and walked out and they had spirited discussions about, well, pretty much everything including their book recommendations.

Books reviewed in this episode are: Quicker by Laurence Dahners, Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan, Mink River by Brian Doyle. Audiobook of the week is Ken Bruen’s The Guards read by Gerry O’Brien. Our Christmas book selection is Nos4a2 by the crazy talented Joe Hill.