https://youtu.be/nfr88tCkaOk?si=vQa8FT1huiDYs6kD
Introduction
Mystery guest
A special literary reading
Week in Review
Summer by Edith Wharton
The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan
Johnny I Hardly Knew You by Edna O'Brien
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
https://youtu.be/QsQeibgTILY?si=DBc5T3en7j1hKw0u
On Book Hoarding and the Perilous Paradox of Clutter, by Vanessa Ogle: https://lithub.com/on-book-hoarding-and-the-perilous-paradox-of-clutter/
https://youtu.be/QsQeibgTILY?si=74TLMRTdHsrHE98S
Introduction
Update on Kenji
Mystery guest
Week in Review
Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi, Shamya Dasgupta (Translator)
Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan
pickhttps://youtu.be/GSkIlC07XK8?si=-F24S2GrXvhW0XWA
Michael Afenfia‘s website: https://michaelafenfia.com
https://youtu.be/kf4nKOac9fA?si=nlIyIySZEYiiFhJA
Disabled Authors Deserve, and Demand, More by Alice Wong: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/9...
A Disability Activist is Asked to Change Her Speech by Boston University Her Response by Kristen Shahverdian and Samantha Lafrance: https://pen.org/a-disability-activist-is-asked-to-change-her-speech/
https://youtu.be/pW4CyuPfqF0?si=X09nU7lPHFETrFiI
#litwithindianlit
#PeopleApril
Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review
Patreon update
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi
https://youtu.be/hBRI4qByLMU?si=Zk-rWAaPNrHx42Ya
Gay sex in literature didn‘t just make me a reader – it humanised my desire by Jamie Valentino: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2023/06/gay-literature-erotic-novels
https://youtu.be/NOuCAGBLZ9I?si=LvXSFaDsIrZd3JSZ
Introduction
Mystery guest
You must read this newspaper article
Week in Review
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
https://youtu.be/TaSIMH8MGTk?si=RyjiprOsLVP1ExwI
Shocks to the System: Don DeLillo‘s novels of the Cold War and its aftermath by Christian Lorentzen: https://www.bookforum.com/print/3001/don-delillo-s-novels-of-the-cold-war-and-it...
https://youtu.be/UTz7IGYrRcs?si=lDmbpZSO9mAX7In7
Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review
Patreon announcements
Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
pickEricka and Shawn discuss William Corlett‘s masterful 1995 gay boarding school novel, Now and Then
https://youtu.be/jGLrjaF8H6w?si=mev-Yj7ePYuWOlDu
Now and Then by William Corlett
The Magician's House Quartet Series by William Corlett
Two Gentlemen Sharing: A Novel by William Corlett
The House Martin by William Parker
While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
https://youtu.be/q_vh4fLZnVk?si=Aaatp2VVoO9C0JBA
Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review
An experiment
Cormorant Lake by Faith Merino
Summer by Edith Wharton
https://youtu.be/gzEcaLeChzc?si=joySw5b4vjKxGl3X.
Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review
Why Didn‘t You Just Do What You Were Told? By Jenny Diski
Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter
A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940
How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica
https://youtu.be/bGdWGu6b7EI?si=Sn-vC32STj45ewi3
Do you suffer from bibliomania? John W. Doull does — and his Dartmouth bookstore proves it - by Andrew Sampson on the CBC News website: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/john-w-doull-bookseller-profile-1.691...
YouTube video: A Walk Through John W. Doull Books: https://youtu.be/RImOoqcRDKA?si=DnHwNiFxOrp6frnk
https://youtu.be/xmoKdxSdNC0?si=l-w1izCVtbuIc5Pn
Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review (revamped)
The Forest by Georges Bugnet, David Carpenter (Translator)
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Apparitions by Adam Pottle
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology by Karina Vernon (Editor)
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
https://youtu.be/ZSiLlBnQfD8?si=9IIhOd-qpJH6SB9Q
More information about Elvin James Mensah: https://www.mushens-entertainment.com/elvin-james-mensah
@elvinjamesmensah on Instagram
Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61612872-small-joys
https://youtu.be/LqvuVTJALT8?si=dlSnXzq8o6BJegkn
Chat #1: with Marina from the UK
The Delivery by Margarita García Robayo
Megan McDowell (Translator)
Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo
Charlotte Coombe, translator
https://youtu.be/MglT0ITyPR4?si=Li25V4LlFAj5hMkU.
Introduction
Mystery guest
Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito, Curtis Bauer (Translator)
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton (Translator)
Kintsugi by Anukrti Upadhyay
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
My Friends by Hisham Matar
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
https://youtu.be/WUe0PnQ8HVw?si=Nt7hyjO4SiHhj5I8
What Makes Some Long Books Feel Too Long? by Molly Templeton: https://reactormag.com/what-makes-some-long-books-feel-too-long/
https://youtu.be/15K3_JF2_xk?si=jZ-KzHwwySNMmS9O
A Passion for Living in the Present: A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux - translated and edited by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda: https://lithub.com/a-passion-for-living-in-the-present-a-conversation-with-yuko-...
https://youtu.be/a4meERuPaVI?si=O6XQOjZzr0u0qzfb
00:00 Introduction
01:33 Big News about Sharon Butala
03:00 Chatting books with Sharon
15:28 Mystery guest
https://youtu.be/gwWIT1FnN8s?si=QPhy5238IJRrqQwy
‘On Dead Dogs and Other Reading Dealbreakers‘ by Molly Templeton on Reactor: https://reactormag.com/on-dead-dogs-and-other-reading-dealbreakers/
https://youtu.be/j-o--RRH46I?si=SwpOFeRNqA3zkAZy
Introduction
Mystery guest
Weekly Highlights
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
https://youtu.be/qt3jV94dq2I?si=Mf8EcJrhCkukfCNA
Spoilers start at 21:31
https://youtu.be/PmONHSm6N1k?si=aUDgjwtqttMfDA6F
Introduction
Mystery guest
Weekly Highlights
Now and Then by William Corlett
This Is How We Love by Lisa Moore
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai
Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito
Cormorant Lake by Faith Merino
https://youtu.be/PemW33-gD5k?si=fYyUDQ2Rfn6xwmFa
Better Know an Author: The Joys of Reading Author Catalogues in Publication Order by Laura Sackton - on Book Riot: https://bookriot.com/reading-in-publication-order/
https://youtu.be/bn8gN53HZ-E?si=ejHoD7fHE7_nfWa1
Beyond “Guilty Pleasures”: When Reading Is Weird, or Hard, or Personal by Molly Templeton: https://www.tor.com/2023/09/21/beyond-guilty-pleasures-when-reading-is-weird-or-...
https://youtu.be/je_9qnqKRlg?si=xmHohuiqEocVkiMB
On the Bad Binary of “Good” and “Bad” Literature by Josh Cook - in LitHub: https://lithub.com/on-the-bad-binary-of-good-and-bad-literature/
https://youtu.be/dwZeWcEgXS8?si=2hKEmQSGbtJbrOsm
Introduction
Mystery guest
Weekly Highlights
Night by Edna O'Brien
Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories by Kōno Taeko
Kintsugi by Anukrti Upadhyay
Apparitions by Adam Pottle
Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers by Peter Benson
https://youtu.be/wq8tXaHEBJE?si=N9BdIhI34QoMJrUC
#indiecember
Introduction
Welcome to a new patron
Mystery guest
Weekly Highlights
Santa Rosa by Wendy McGrath
Siphonophore by Jaimie Batchan
The Clarion by Nina Dunic
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kōno
The Broken River Tent by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Night by Edna O'Brien
https://youtu.be/y02mEcEzavY?si=VZ4XlpHdfCAo14Jh
The Importance of Book-Centered Spaces as Third Places by Susie Dumond; https://bookriot.com/book-centered-spaces-as-third-places/
Ridiculously late crosspost, but tis the season
https://youtu.be/olNekC6A4t0?si=DYYcB67T8AAQrT3u
https://youtu.be/FNFhbPFnOh8?si=iafOXo5-SufCPvsJ
How Should One Read a Book? - Read as if one were writing it by Virginia Woolf - in The Yale Review: https://yalereview.org/article/virginia-woolf-essay-how-should-read-book
https://youtu.be/SJolugZajdQ?si=ZomDd8iG-N9FbnL0
Introduction
Mystery guest
Weekly Highlights
Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah
Leave My Bones In Saskatoon by Michael Afenfia
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
https://youtu.be/yYhlhWbUqNs?si=_JDenYvpQMXJlZXS
The Written Image: My Brilliant Friend by Jen DeGregorio - in Poets and Writers magazine: https://www.pw.org/content/the_written_image_my_brilliant_friend_0
https://youtu.be/yOIMY_YUu0M?si=6ZXfV-Jfsd3Mm5_I
Hannah‘s BookTube channel, Hannah‘s Books: @HannahsBooks?si=PaO9c133d9jH42b1" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://youtube.com/@HannahsBooks?si=PaO9c133d9jH42b1
@hannahsbooks1
(Be sure and check out her BookTube channel for her complete series of Cather videos!)
https://youtu.be/HyaMgCFaztk?si=TfwmmtffQm65QPIN
The Blurb Problem Keeps Getting Worse by Helen Lewis - in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/book-blurbs-ethics/675139/
Society of Authors calls use of bad reviews for book blurbs ‘morally questionable‘ by Ella Creamer: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/01/society-of-authors-calls-use-of-ba...
