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Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper:

The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today’s most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we’re talking about.

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The B&N Podcast: John Hodgman
When you’re talking with the writer and performer John Hodgman, it doesn’t seem like any page, or chapter or volume could contain his restlessly inventive mind. It’s impossible to find a subject that Hodgman isn’t curious about, eloquent about or really funny about – sometimes all within the same sentence. And a conversation with him is like being part of a piece of improv comedy in which you had better be on your toes if you want to keep up. While you might know  Hodgman best from his appearances on The Daily Show or elsewhere on television and in film, the former literary agent has his roots in books. He’s the author of three bestselling works. Hodgman joins Bill Tipper on this episode to talk about his quite different new book, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches. Posted at The Barnes and Noble Review

 After three bestselling books of fake facts, Hodgman is finally ready to tell the truth—in the same outlandish, audacious, and inimitable style that has won him fans in every medium he has worked: books, stage, social media, television, and movies.

JOHN HODGMAN

My new book is called VACATIONLAND and it is available NOW at bit.ly/painfulbeaches

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The practice had evolved from commonplace books, a Renaissance tradition of compiling important and memorable information into bound sheets of paper. Students were encouraged to keep the books during class, and eventually they became a place to store anything and everything their owners found interesting-including the signatures of other classmates.