Episode #1: What We Talk About When We Talk About Books We Haven't Read

Included in this month's show: Marco Roth (n+1), who hasn't read Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read and is damn proud of it. Keith Gessen (n+1), who occasionally forgets his English, but still has high hopes for the youth of today. Hannah Lepow (Columbia first-year), who wrote the book on bullshitting but foolishly didn't get it published. Annie Minoff (Columbia first-year), the voice of reason! Justin Vlasits (Columbia first-year), the man who has heard of 3,000 books, but still hasn't read Catcher in the Rye.

Discussed: books we haven't read, books we wish we had read, and youth...sweet youth, Also, a bonus, off-topic conversation about bathroom reading that WILL get scatological! {ML}

(Photo: Watch out ladies, Pierre Bayard is about to get thinky.)

Michelle Legro (producer, host) is a second-year MFA candidate in nonfiction at Columbia University.

Kate Daloz (producer) is a third year MFA candidate in nonfiction at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn.

Brook Wilensky-Lanford (editor: One Child...) is a second year MFA candidate in nonfiction at Columbia. She is working on a book about failed searches for the Garden of Eden.

Jessica Hindman (editor: One Child...) is a second year MFA candidate in nonfiction at Columbia. She grew up West Virginia.

Kim Tingley (editor: Blinded by Science) is a third year MFA candidate in nonfiction at Columbia University.

Josh Garrett-Davis (contributor) was born in the hills of South Dakota. He is a second year MFA candidate in nonfiction.

Kristin Vukovic (contributor) is a second year MFA candidate in nonfiction at Columbia University, and the editor-in-chief of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. She is currently working on a memoir about her childhood experience as a figure skater.