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We discuss the best books with book nerds, authors and critics from around the world.

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    • 5.0 • 18 Ratings

We discuss the best books with book nerds, authors and critics from around the world.

    Sam Lipsyte - NO ONE LEFT TO COME LOOKING FOR YOU

    Sam Lipsyte - NO ONE LEFT TO COME LOOKING FOR YOU

    Sam Lipsyte 



    Buy No One Left To Come Looking For You here:



    https://bookshop.org/p/books/no-one-left-to-come-looking-for-you/18850055?ean=9781501146121



    Gateway books / writers



    Thomas Pynchon 



    Donald Barthelme 



    Stanley Elkin 



    Tom McGunane



    Barry Hannah 



    Padget Powell 



    Ben Marcus 



    Moby Dick



    Philip Roth - Sabbath’s Theatre 



    Joseph Roth 



    Issac Babel 



    Tolstoy 



    James Joyce 



    Samuel Beckett



    Currently reading/recently enjoyed/looking forward to 



    Javier Marias - Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy 



    My Father’s Diet - Adrian Nathan West 



    Material - Camille Bordas (June 2024 Release)



    Desert Island Books 



    The Man Without Qualities - Musil 



    Collected Stories - Barry Hannah 



    Ulysses - Joyce 



    Collected Stories - Issac Babel 



    Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf 

    Jacob and his Brothers - Thomas Mann 



    Bernhard - Extinction 



    Paul Beaty - The Sellout 

    • 42 min
    Story of the Eye with Courtenay Schembri Gray

    Story of the Eye with Courtenay Schembri Gray

    Find Courtenay @



    https://courtenayscorner.com/



    http://patreon.com/courtenaywrites

    Substack

    https://themaplemoon.substack.com

    X @courtenaywrites

    Instagram themaltesereader

    • 38 min
    Michael Salu - RED EARTH

    Michael Salu - RED EARTH

    https://michaelsalu.com/

    https://theredearthproject.org/



    Get the book from :



    https://calamaripress.com/Red_Earth.htm



    linktr.ee/houseofthought





    Gateway books

    The Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fanon

    Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

    The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt

    The Brothers Kamarazov

    If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino

    Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac

    Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

     A Lover's Discourse - Roland Barthes

    Influential as a writer

    Confabulations - John Berger

    The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

    Kindred - Octavia Butler

    The Literature Machine - Italo Calvino

     Anne Carson 

    The Boxman - Kobo Abe

    The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 

    Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes

    Derek Walcott

    Negrophobia - Darius James

    Denis Johnson - Jesus' sonDisgrace - JM Coetzee

    Currently reading:

    The Black Technical Object - Ramon Amaro

    MACUNAÍMA: THE HERO WITH NO CHARACTER, BY MÁRIO DE ANDRADE

    Nomenclature: New and Collected PoemsBook by Dionne Brand

    The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens





    Terra Amata by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann

    Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann

    Thanks to Jen Craig and to Seth over at WASTE Mailing list for appearing on this episode.



    Jen is on Instagram @absurdenticements

    https://linktr.ee/absurdenticements



    Seth is everywhere

    https://linktr.ee/wastemailinglist

    • 1 hr 24 min
    Adam Mansbach - THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN

    Adam Mansbach - THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN

    The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach 



    Order from One World V



    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737057/the-golem-of-brooklyn-by-adam-mansbach/





    http://www.adammansbach.com/





    Soundtrack by @defcee





    https://open.spotify.com/album/10RHdG5gi6jWhi1qAD7cFK?si=9P1RMU4tRVaRTvAmBN-Hgw\



    Gateway books 



    The Pushcart War - Jean Merrill



    Treasure Island 



    Current reads 



    Lone Women - Victor Lavalle 



    When Crack Was King - Donovan Ramsey 



    The Talmud 



    Desert Island Books



    2666 - Robert Bolaño 



    Rule of the Bone - Russel Banks 



    Subway Art - Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper

    • 56 min
    Michael Fitzgerald - LATE

    Michael Fitzgerald - LATE

    @mf.novelist

    Buy the book from

    https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/late/

    Gateway books /authors

    Carson McCullers

    Tenesse Williams

    Truman Capote

    Patricia Highsmith

    Ulysses

    Current reads

    The Crying Room - Gretchen Shrim

    Gregory Day - Bell of the World

    Desert Island Books

    Ulysses

    In Search of Lost Time

    Carpentaria - Alexis Wright

    Mavis Gallant - Short stories

    Joan Didion

    Diane Arbus - Photography

    • 1 hr 7 min

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