Chamber Four

Publishing fiction, nonfic & poetry. Proud sponsor of the Yak Babies Books Podcast (@yakbabies).

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This week: does Poetry matter?

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“My radar sense for sad things perked up ... because I’m a sad piece of shit too.” This week the personal pals yak about Lincoln in the Bardo.

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We hope you aren’t sick of hearing about George Saunders yet, because we aren’t sick about talking about him (at least not as sick as Dave felt about himself after the toast comment).

This week we discuss GS’s first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.

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In this week’s episode, sponsored by Honey Sludge, Dave sails away with Jimmy Buffett, Nico falls for an online art scam, Brick feels Nintendo Power, and Aaron revisits the Scholastic Book Fair.

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The yeeks share what influences in their formative years shaped their tastes as readers.

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Old Irish Nico asks the pals about frivolous writing devices we think he secretly wants or, more likely, has already purchased.

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Runners-up include Andrew Martin, Saddam Hussein, Andrew Martin, Andrew Martin, some kind of Kardashian, Rush Limbaugh, and Mandrew Artin.

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This week the pals remember the worst books they’ve ever read. Warning in advance, there’s some gross stuff in here.

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@substockman The ellipses, what?

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Gonna need a drawing of a Mega-Yak.

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In our 1984 discussion, Dave asks which Yak Baby would be “vaporized” first. Aaron suggests we’d all be killed together, and Brick says we’d re-form as a Mega-Yak. What’s your hot take?

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The ending that broke @Ay_Be

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Long accused of Orwellian thoughtcrimes themselves, the Yak Babies read George Orwell’s 1984 and now must decide whether to keep it in the canon or fire it into the sea.

https://t.co/1Ebp1nZJ3N

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Can’t remember the last time I was sandwiched between two people, but

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Look at the person sitting to your left; now look at the person sitting to your right. Statistically speaking, both of them will ghostwrite a book for James Patterson.

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This week the Yak Babies yak about books instead of presidents and dicks!

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“And sometimes books” #WAWR

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This week: how authors' work can change over time and how readers' relationships with authors can evolve.

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This week the pals discuss romance novels, which apparently have 19% market share.

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This week: Nostalgia

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On episode 81: the personal pals discuss book reviewing and criticism in the age of aggregate sites and online media outlets.

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This week:

Write drunk, edit sober.

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Speaking of Patreon, @Ay_Be says that if you don’t become a Yak Babies patron, he will die. Don’t let it happen! One stinking dollar a month. Save Aaron! https://t.co/k5fcH4BvAL

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And a case of the giggles that only Patreon subscribers will understand.

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This week, lots of #comics and even some #manga!

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As always, hats off to @heroicbrickroad for the all-star editing, removing all the uhs and ums, the most gratuitous dick jokes, and most of the vaping sounds, and finding the right mood music after the pals yak off.

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On this week’s Yak Babies, the personal pals discuss authors who have bibliographies so broad, deep, or difficult that they feel intimidating to even approach. https://t.co/x5glQRuGzG

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Por ejemplo: Trollope; Dickens; Joyce Carol Oates; Russians in general.