Papercuts

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  1. A New Zealand books bonanza

    02/02/2021

    A New Zealand books bonanza

    It’s the most exciting time of the year in the New Zealand book world as the Ockham New Zealand Book Award longlist has just been announced. We also have a line up of three New Zealand books for review and have a wee look at what’s on the reading pile and coming out in 2021. Mentioned in this episode... Books KD: Gangland by Jared Savage, with a mention of Patched by Jarrod Gilbert (HarperCollins NZ) Mary Holm on RNZ’s Bookmarks Gyles Beckford on RNZ’s Bookmarks LK:Victory Park by Rachel Kerr (Makaro Press) Kiran’s interview with Rachel for the NZ Herald. JT: Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey (VUP) Not Books KD: Michael Apted’s Seven Up series  LK: What Writers and Editors Do by Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Paris Review blog JT: Bling Empire and Pretend it’s a City (both Netflix) The TBR Pile KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw, A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion, Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner, The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong LK: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald, with a mention of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith JT: Remaining Ockham fiction longlist to read: Bug Week by Airini Beautrais and Toto Among the Murderers by Sally Morgan Book News The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist is announced The 2021 samesame but different festival will run from February 10 - 14 in the Ellen Melville Centre The Rathbones Folio Prize Longlist has been announced! Some great reads to add to your pile, including ol’ Shuggie Bain Get in touch with Papercuts Email: papercutspod@gmail.com Tweet: @papercutspod Instagram: @papercutspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 27m
  2. Notes from a Bookocalypse

    09/20/2020

    Notes from a Bookocalypse

    The Papercuts gals are back to help you navigate the huge flood of incredible books that were delayed by Covid-19 and are now finally available for your reading pleasure. We also bring you our usual winning formula: a hot scoop of book industry news, our insightful book reviews and discussions, our not-book reviews and our dangerously teetering TBR piles. Come up the Papercuts lab and see what’s on the slab! Books reviewed this episode: KD: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Summerwater by Sarah Moss and Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan LK: Sisters by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape) & Nothing to See by Pip Adam (VUP) JT: Deep Work by Cal Newport (Little & Brown) Not books: KD: Gloss on YouTube LK: The Great on Neon JT: Origins on TVNZ The TBR Pile: KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador) and Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt) and 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the Ockhams! LK: The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemison (Orbit), The Swimmers by Chloe Lane (VUP), Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence and Gibson) JT: Tree of Strangers by Barbara Sumner (MUP), Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape), Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Bloomsbury) Book news: The NZ Children’s and Young Adults Book Awards were held on 12th August. Congratulations to all the winners, especially Selina Tusitala Marsh, whose first children’s book Mophead (AUP) won Margaret Mahy Book of the Year. Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Hamnet (Tinder Press). Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the International Booker Prize for their debut novel The Discomfort of Evening (trans by Michele Hutchinson, Faber). The Booker Prize 2020 shortlist has been announced! There’s no Hilary Mantel, and it’s the most diverse shortlist ever! Lineups for WORD (28 October–1 November), VERB (6–8 November 2020) and YARNS IN BARNS ( 8–18th October) have been announced – get amongst!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 20m
  3. Prescient books for tumultuous times

    07/27/2020

    Prescient books for tumultuous times

    The Papercuts team are finally back in The Spinoff studio this month with their usual winning recipe of book news, book recommendations, not books and their ever-growing ‘TBR’ piles. They anticipate the announcements of some big book prizes, deep dive into a hugely entertaining book about the apocalypse, the new Ottessa Moshfegh (Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation), and how reading BWB Texts will make you much smarter. This month's ‘Not Books’ recommendations include Hollywood gossip, Drag Race and getting back to our Baby-Sitters Club roots on Netflix. Books reviewed KD: Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O’Connell (Granta); Funny Weather by Olivia Laing (Picador) LK: Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape) JT: Imagining Colonisation by Rebecca Kiddle, Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson, Ocean Mercier, Mike Ross, Jennie Smeaton, Amanda Thomas (BWB Text); Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End by Ranginui Walter (Penguin NZ) Not books KD: Last Picture Show via You Must Remember This Polly Platt podcast LK: Canada’s Drag Race, Race Chaser & The Chop podcasts; Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger JT: The Baby-sitters Club & The Claudia Kishi Club on Netflix; AGC Gossip The TBR Pile KD: The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun (Serpents Tail); Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence & Gibson); Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan (White Rabbit); Rat King Landlord by Murdoch Stevens (Lawrence & Gibson) LK: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; Pachinko by Min Jin Lee; Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin JT: Sigrid Nunez’s What are you Going Through; Carson McCullers’ Member of the Wedding; Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House) Book news links The Booker Longlist will be announced tomorrow The International Book Awards Winners have been announced NZ Children’s and Young Adult Book Awards are being held virtually on the 12th of August, keep updated here Two new bookstores are opening in New Zealand! Bay Hill Books is open in Timaru and Good Books opens in Wellington soon. Kiran’s interview with Mark O’Connell on The Spinoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 9m
  4. Papercuts quarantine pod #2: the hysteria sets in

    05/02/2020

    Papercuts quarantine pod #2: the hysteria sets in

    Book news Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist -- the Prize’s 25th year. The shortlist was announced on the Women’s Prize for Fiction social channels: Dominicana by Angie Cruz Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell Weather by Jenny Offill #BookshopsAreBack!! Newsroom has a list of retailers around the country. Ockhams Out Loud The 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards was to be the first event of Festival week and will now be broadcast via the #theockhams YouTube channel. In the lead up over the next few weeks, you can listen to each of the finalists reading from their shortlisted work, with one added each day until the winners are announced at the online ceremony on the evening of Tuesday 12 May. Take a look, and subscribe for updates. Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series Includes Bernardine Evaristo, Lisa Taddeo, Amy McDaid, Anthony Byrt and more. 9am on May 3rd and running live once a week for 13 weeks. Three writers including at least two from the 2020 programme will chat with series host Paula Morris, read from their work and answer audience questions. Watch via live the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website. BookBound 2020 An 'antiviral' online literary festival, already in progress until 3 May 2020. Includes a number of New Zealand authors, including Freya Daly Sadgrove, Pip Adam Becky Manawatu & Renée, who join literary talent such as Max Porter and Emma Glass from around the world. The festival is raising money for a number of charities, and events are free on the BookBound 2020 YouTube channel Verb Community Verb Community members will ensure artists are paid for their work, help create content and experiences and lots of other good stuff. In return, they'll get access to the Verb Community hui where you can feed your ideas into what they do, discounts on ticketed events and festival sessions, and again lots of other good stuff! They launch alongside three new pieces of writing by Sinead Overbye (a reading list on love in isolation), Victor Rodger (love and quite a bit of sex), and essa may ranapiri (gender and language). Book reviews KD: White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer LK: Torpor by Chris Kraus JT: Aue by Becky Manawatu Not books KD: Record shops! LK: Home Cooking: a podcast from Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway to help you figure out what to cook (and keep you company) during the quarantine. Thanks to Papercuts listener David for the recommendation! Circus of Books on Netflix -- the charming and sometimes heartbreaking story of a middle-class Jewish family who ran a hardcore gay porn bookstore from the eighties up till the time of filming. JT: Brideshead Revisited (1981 TV series) The TBR Pile KD: In the Fold and The Temporary by Rachel Cusk, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing LK: You'll enjoy it when you get there: the stories of Elizabeth Taylor, I'm working on a building by Pip Adam, Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno, Fake Baby by Amy McDaid (out June) JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman), Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino (4th Estate). Tennis Lessons by Susannah Dickey (DD) Also mentioned: Green Girl by Kate... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 hr

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