This week I'm with Phil Weiss (KingRat) and we talk about the Nebula Awards, The Young Adult Section and about what it feels like to be very, very alone. I apologize for the sound quality, Wordsy is experimenting with live streaming of audio and video via the web - as well as allowing people to call in on the show (which they didn't). Call in next week! Stay tuned for more details on the official blog.

Two special guests on the podcast today: Phil Weiss and Erik Hare - better known on the site as Kingrat and Wabbit. As on a regular podcast, we talk about stories on Wordsy.com. We talk about 'authors using video to promote their books', 'Pulitzer prize winning books 2008', 'Fatwa revisited' - among other stories.

Richard badmouths New York Cops and we talk about some of the stories on Wordsy.com that we liked the most, such as:

• 'Stuff White People Like' Book Sold to Random House for At Least $350,000,
• The Lit-Blog Coop Shuts Down,
• Books Cops Read,
• Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing,
• Dickens family seek to overturn writer's dying wish for no memorials,

Episode 28, where Richard and Hans keep going valiantly in the face of horrendous technical difficulty, to deliver you that expealidocious experience you just can't do without.

Hans And Richard discuss Most Overrated Books, Borders Displays Book Covers and The No Fear Shakespeare Translation - among other stories.

Episode 26. Where Hans and Richard try out some new production values and it turns out true memoirs are better fake ones.

Oh, Brother! aka The Cranky Episode

Episode nr.24. The Banter continues. Some great stories this week.

Richard's back! Immediately we dig into hard hitting topics like banned words and erectile dysfunction.

Hans talks to Rod Lott of Bookgasm.com and Philip Weiss of Reading.kingrat.biz. They discuss some of the best and worst books of the past year as well as the most talked about news stories of the book world. Happy New Year from all of us!