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Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.
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Feb 8, 2022 • 58min
Max Easton
Max Easton
@maxeaston__
You can get Magpie Wing here https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-magpie-wing-max-easton/book/9781925818765.html
or here https://giramondopublishing.com/books/
or https://www.amazon.com/Magpie-Wing-Max-Easton-ebook/dp/B09C88HB8F/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3E9SH0OPQ9L6D&keywords=max+easton&qid=1644283369&sprefix=max+eaton%2Caps%2C273&sr=8-1
We have one free copy for an Australian listener - DM me or email me - first in wins.
Gateway Books:
Philip K Dick books
Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night / Cat's Cradle
John Iriving - The World According to Garp J
Recently enjoyed / Looking forward to Nanni Balestrini - the Unseen. Shaun Prescott - Untitled 2nd Novel. Luke Carman - Untitled Novel. Upcoming works by S.L. Lim and Briohny Doyle
TOP TEN Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
John Irving - The 158-Pound Marriage
Helen Garner - Honour and Other People's Children
Paul Beatty - The Sellout
E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime
Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist
Mordecai Richler - Barney's Version
Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School
David Keenan - This is Memorial Device
Frank Moorehouse - The Electrical Experience

Feb 4, 2022 • 1h 2min
Greg Gerke
The Movement Image —Gilles Deleuze
James Ley - The Critic in the Modern World
Genese Grill - new essay book from Splice later this year.
Gateway books
Joyce - Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Long Man Ulysses
Beckett- Plays + Trilogy
Top 10
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Marie Rilke
À la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
The Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
The Tunnel - William Gass
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer - Christine Schutt

Feb 2, 2022 • 1h 7min
Centenary of Ulysses Special with Bob Carr
Centenary of Ulysses Special with Bob Carr
Find Bob on Twitter @bobjcarr
Email
Show notes
Currently reading /recently enjoyed
Thomas Mann - Lotte in Weimar
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Top 10
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Anthony Powell -A Dance to The Music of Time
The Odyssey
Brother Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Madame Bovary
Shakespeare - Plays
Chekov - Plays
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Also mentioned
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Leopard
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
This episode is sponsored by the Any Day You Can Die audio book by Thommy Waite.
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Jan 28, 2022 • 42min
Nevada McPherson
Nevada McPherson
Poser is out Feb 14 from Outcast - preorder here
https://www.booktopia.com.au/poser-nevada-mcpherson/book/9781737982913.html
http://www.nevada-mcpherson.com
Current reads and looking forward;
Shaun McCallum - Recalcitrant Stuff of Life
DuVay Knox - The Pussy Detective
In Filth is Shall be Found
Austin Davies - Lotus and the Apocalypse
Jack Moody Crooked Smile
Top Ten
Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
Complete Stories - Flannery O’Connor
How Proust Can Save Your Life - Alain de Botton
I Fatty - Jerry Stahl
The Deer Park - Norman Mailer
McTeague - Frank Norris
The Colossus of Maroussi - Henry Miller
Stroheim - Arthur Lennig
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
Anaïs Nin: A Biography - Deirdre Bair

Jan 21, 2022 • 1h 10min
Wendy Erskine
Wendy Erskine
Show notes
Links
Pre-orders for Dance Move here
https://noalibis.com/product/dance-move-wendy-erskine-pre-order/
@WednesdayErskin
Gateway books /authors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga
Happy Venture Readers Book 4
https://marchhousebookscom.blogspot.com/2012/08/can-you-help-identify-this-book.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Streatfeild
Current reads /recently enjoyed and looking forward to
https://www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize
Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure - Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Small Town Girl: Love, Lies and the
Undercover Police - Donna McLean
Re-reading William Faulkner - Light in August
Looking forward to - Nicole Flattery - Nothing Special
Top 10
Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Hellfire- Nick Tosches
Alma Cogan - Gordon Burn
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
Light in August William Faulkner
Pat Barker - Blow Your House Down
Problems - Jade Sharma
Monument Maker - David Keenan
Age of innocence - Edith Wharton
Beware of Pity- Stefan Zweig
Honorable mention
Will and Testament - Vigdis Hjorth

Jan 13, 2022 • 36min
Austin Davis
Austin Davis
Website
https://msha.ke/austindavis/#about
Street Sorrows EP
https://open.spotify.com/album/14HG4cScgrnLtJGelfg47D?si=-TUXg_ONQ8WpmDNG2wvbXQ
Order Lotus and The Apocalypse - Out March 4th
https://www.outcast-press.com/published-works
Twitter @Austin_Davis17
Instagram @austinwdavis1
Gateway books
Neil Hilborn - OCD poem
Billy Collins - Poetry
Ray Bradbury
Current reads / recently enjoyed /looking forward to
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
Homie - Danez Smith
Rosemarie Dombrowski
Hunter Hazelton - I Never Understood Religion Until I Learned Your Name
The Sunflower Cast a Spell Save Us from the Void - Jackie Wang
Buddy Wakefield- Choir of Honest Killers
Top 10
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
The Body - Steven King
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin - Terrance Hayes
Wild Milk - Sabrina Orah Mark
The Crown Ain't Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib
Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
Crush - Richard Siken
Depression & Other Magic Tricks- Sabrina Benaim
Don’t call us dead - Danez Smith

Jan 6, 2022 • 1h 55min
Ryan Ruby
Ryan Ruby
Links
http://www.ryanruby.info
@_ryanruby_
https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/how-does-this-get-read
Bottom's Dream, the Arno Schmidt Project, and Philanthropy Chad W. Post
Recent / Current reads /Looking forward to
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl
When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
Fireflies by Luis Sagasti
Anecdotes by Heinrich von Kleist
Lauren Elkin notes on a Parisian Commute
Gateway book - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Top 10
Economy of the Unlost by Anne Carson
The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle by Pierre Klossowski
Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Brütt, or The sighing gardens (Brütt, oder, Die seufzenden Gärten) by Friederike Mayröcker
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Dec 30, 2021 • 1h 15min
Andrés Neuman
Gateway books
Edgar Allan Poe stories translated by Julio Cortazar
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka translated by Jorge Luis Borges
Currently reading
Las malas
Novel by Camila Sosa Villada
Annie Ernaux - The Years and The Other Daughter
Iosi Havilio - Petite Fleur
Paulina Flores - Isla Decepción
Logan February - Fuckboys
https://www.loganfebruary.com
Looking forward to
Lydia Davis - Collected Stories
Re-read Capote - In Cold Blood
Top 10
Invisible Cities
Lorca - The Audience
Ceaser Vallejo - Human Poems
Jose Watanabe
Selected Poems Wislawa Szymborska
Wallace Stevens - Aphorisms
Rilke - New Poems
Goethe - Roman Elegies
Another County - James Baldwin
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir
The kiss of the spider woman - Manuel Puig
Flannery O’Connor -Everything That Rises Must Converge
Birds of America - Lorrie Moore
Against the interpretation - Susan Sontag
On Being Ill - Virginia Woolf
History of death in the western world - Philippe Ariès
Grave of fireflies - Akiyuki Nosaka
The Chess Novel Stefen Zweig.

Dec 23, 2021 • 2h 2min
End of Year Special with Thommy Waite
End of year special !
Co-hosted by Thommy Waite !
Featuring Michael Horn (Drunk Pynchon) Bram Presser, Martin Shaw, Travis Meyer, Iain Smith, James Rosewarne, Lauren Teixeira, Sean McCallum, Dustin Illingworth, Greg Gerke, Seth from Waste Mailing List, Ryan Alexander, David Keenan, Jake Dean, Adam Ouston, Michale Winkler, Courtney S Gray and George Salis.
Books of 2021 (and best books read)
Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Monument Maker - David Keenan
Mona - Pola Oloixarac
The Employees - Olga Ravn
Any Day You Can Die - Thommy Waite
Recalcitrant Stuff of Life - Sean McCallum
Burning Man - Biography of D.H. Lawrence - Frances Wilson
The Netanyahus - Josh Cohen
Sunflower -Tex Gresham
The Luminous Novel - Mario Levrero
CoinciDATE - David R Low
Hope - Glen Duncan (Thommy’s best read this year)
The Things We’ve seen - Augustine Fernando Mallo
William Blake Versus the World - John Higgs
Inquisitor’s Manual - António Lobo Antunes
Helen DeWitt - Last Samurai
Story of The Eye - George Bataille
Hypnopony - Stuart Buck
Bubblegum - Adam Levin
Clairvoyant of the Small - The Life of Robert Walser - Susan Bernofsky
The Moment - Peter Holm Jensen
Gabrielle Blackwell - Correction
Garielle Lutz - Worsted
Michael Drinkard - Disobedience
Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
American and The Cult of The Cactus Boots
List Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Novel Explosives - Jim Gaur
Animal Money - Michael Cisco
Snuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
The Interim -Woolfgang Hilbig
Shanty Town - César Aira
Clarise Lispector - Hour of the Star
Geoff Sparrow - Crimes Against Nature
The Mayfly Glimmer Before Last Call- Poe Ballantine
Amnesia Road - Luke Stegemanm
Born Into This - Adam Thomson
Steven Millhauser - We Others
The Animals in That County - Laura Jean Mckay
Jessamine Ward - Salvage The Bones
Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf
Transcendental style in film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Paul Schrader
Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Mayor Of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Goodbye Columbus - Philip Roth
Love in a Dead Language - Lee Seigel
Lance Olsen - Skin Elegies
Picks for 2022 -
Wendy Erskine - Dance Moves
The new 736 page Houellebecq - Annihilation
Javier Marias - Thomas Nevinson
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu -
Pierre Senges - Ahab (sequels)
The Logos - Mark De Silva
More David Keenan
More Andres Neuman
New Rikki Dukornet
Illustrated Ulysses - from Eduardo Arroyo
Rian Hughes XX
Reprint of Miss Mackintosh My Darling Marguerite Young - Dalkey Archive
Waypoints - Adam Ouston
Lydia Davis - Essays
Gabrielle Blackwell - Doomtown
Morgan Meis and J.M. Tyree - Letters on Cinema and Religion in Malick, Von Trier, and Kieślowski
Max Blecher coming from Sublunary
Antagony - Luis Goytisolo
New Sorokin
Alejandro Zambra - Chilean Poet
Andrew Roff - Teeth of a Slow Machine
Ben Walter - What Fear Was
Robbie Arnot - Limberlost
Mirandi Riwoe - The Burnished Sun
Jane Rawson - New book
Sweet Meat Saga - G. F. Gravenson
Hustler’s Grotto - Yayoi Kusama
Leg Over Leg -Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Devil To Pay in the Backland -João Guimarães Rosa
Music Courtesy of Bram Presser
Happy New Year!
Season 2 coming in 2022.

Dec 17, 2021 • 58min
Jack Moody
Jack Moody
@jack_is_moody
Crooked Smile is out through Outcast in March 15th 2022
https://www.outcast-press.com
Gateway books
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Currently Reading / Recently enjoyed / looking forward to
Sean McCallum - Recalcitrant Stuff of Life
Lost City of The Monkey God - Douglas Preston
Top 10 (ish)
The Sarah Book - Scott McClanahan
Ablutions - Patrick DeWitt
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Nick Flynn - Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
The Outsider (The Stranger) - Albert Camus
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway


