Joel Golby's Book Club

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Joel Golby's Book Club

hi my name is joel golby and welcome to my podcast where each week i recommend you a new book. it's out every tuesday. that's it. that's pretty much it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 26 SEPT

    E23: Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex

    Joel reads Middlesex, a swirling multi-generational novel that sees a Greek family migrate to Detroit and struggle with their middle class status. The basis of pretty good novel - and it won the Pulitzer - but does Joel rate it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    32 min

  2. 1 AUG

    E22: Miranda July's All Fours

    Joel's broken two of his rules this time round by reading a book that is 1) a hardback, and 2) came out this year. It's Miranda July's All Fours, a book where the narrator is supposed to spend a load of money on a life-changing road trip, but ends up blowing all the cash on renovating a motel room just outside town to look like a Parisian hotel suite. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    27 min

  3. 26 JUN

    E21: Joel Answers Your Questions

    What's the best writing snack? How important is it to plan your character arc? What do you make of The Hardest Geezer book announcement? Joel answers your questions! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    43 min
  4. E20: Jenny Offill's Weather

    20 JUN

    E20: Jenny Offill's Weather

    In this episode, Joel's picked out another book that everyone seemed to read before he did. Jenny's Offill's Weather came out in 2020 and is set around the inauguration of Donald Trump's presidency and it's a book that feels like it's set in 2016, but does it hold up in 2024? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min
  5. E19: Benjamin Myers' Beastings

    5 JUN

    E19: Benjamin Myers' Beastings

    Joel watched a great TV show based on Benjamin Myers' 'The Gallows Pole' only to find out that everyone had been reading Benjamin Myers for years. This week, he's reading the 2014 novel set in idillic Northern English countryside, Beastings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  6. E18: Jonathan Ames' The Double Life Is Twice As Good

    29 MAY

    E18: Jonathan Ames' The Double Life Is Twice As Good

    You asked for it, you got it. Joel's read a book that he hated and it's Jonathan Ames' collection of articles and short stories that have not dated well and probably weren't very good at the time either. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    38 min
  7. E17: Anne Dillard's Teaching A Stone To Talk

    20 MAY

    E17: Anne Dillard's Teaching A Stone To Talk

    Joel's got really into heading down to his local pond and counting the different types of flowers and fish he can see after reading a mind-altering set of essays on exploration, faith and nature by Anne Dillard. Good for him! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    27 min

  8. 14 MAY

    E16: Joel Answers Your Questions

    Joel's got the answers to all your questions on reading, writing and books in general. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    33 min
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hi my name is joel golby and welcome to my podcast where each week i recommend you a new book. it's out every tuesday. that's it. that's pretty much it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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