Load up your TBR pile with some excellent reading recommendations from the Papercuts team.
Books reviewed this episode:
KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw and We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
LK: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
JT: No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
Not books:
KD: We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida.
LK: The Sopranos on Neon; Obscure Season 2: Frankenstein
JT: The Casketeers season 4 on TVNZ
The TBR Pile:
KD: Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly, Foghorn’s Lament by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Animal by Lisa Taddeo, Times Like These by Michelle Langstone, My Rock & Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
LK: The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz; Times Like These by Michelle Langstone
JT: The Believers by Sarah Krasnostein, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones, My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee, Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, Luster by Raven Leilani, How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell
This is the final episode of Papercuts – for now! We’ll be taking a hiatus from your feeds while we plot our next move. Thank you so much to our listeners, our producer Tina and The Spinoff Podcast Network!
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2 Feb 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
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21 Dec 2020
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2020
Representing Gone By Lunchtime, Dietary Requirements, The Real Pod, Papercuts, The Fold and On The Rag our hosts dive into the key events, issues, heroes and villains of 2020.
From National’s botched election campaign to Ben Thomas’ take on TikTok, via the collapse of Bauer, the rise of oat milk, with a detour through controversial frozen grapes and Simon’s Sausage Spot, there’s something for everyone in this year’s Superpod. Featuring special guests producer T and Covid-19.
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