That Book is about those books you've always heard of but have no idea what their deal is. Hosted by Hannah Weaver and Michael Goldsmith, readers with high expectations and low standards.
That Book
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That Book is about those books you've always heard of but have no idea what their deal is. Hosted by Hannah Weaver and Michael Goldsmith, readers with high expectations and low standards.
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September 16, 2024
Introducing Proust Curious!
<p>We pop back in from the void to tell you about a new project we've been working on: <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/proust-curious/id1764330975"> Proust Curious</a>. It's a podcast about the experience of reading Marcel Proust's <em>À la recherche du temps perdu</em> – all seven volumes. Hosted by Hannah and Cambridge professor Emma Claussen with Michael producing, it's a fun, deeply-considered dive into one of the most intimidating novels in the canon. Please check it out at <a href= "https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/proust-curious/">Public Books</a>, on <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/proust-curious/id1764330975"> Apple Podcasts</a>, or <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/show/1rVUMs0XA4xBbvPgEeGGyZ">Spotify</a>. </p> <p>And, for old times' sake, enjoy some book chat. </p>
December 28, 2021
TBC: What We Actually Read, 2021!
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our year-end survey. What the hell did we read in 2021??? </span></p> <p><strong>Books mentioned: </strong></p> <p><strong>Run, Don’t Walk:</strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Listening House</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Mabel Seeley;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Hidden Valley Road</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Robert Kolker;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Piranesi</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Susanna Clarke;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Intimacies</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Katie Kitamura;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Visitation</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Jenny Erpenbeck;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Native Speaker,</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Chang-rae Lee; </span></p> <p><strong>Thumbs Up:</strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Plot</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Jean Hanff Korelitz;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Copenhagen Trilogy</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Tove Ditlevsen;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">To Sleep in a Sea of Stars</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Christopher Paolini;</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Stepford Wives</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ira Levin;</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Secondhand Time</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Svetlana Alexievich;</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clockwork Boys, The Wonder Engine, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, T. Kingfisher;</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Year Abroad</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Chang-rae Lee;</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">No One is Talking About This</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Patricia Lockwood;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Matrix</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Lauren Groff; </span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, David Grann</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">;</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Under the Whispering Door, The House in the Cerulean Sea</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, TJ Klune;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A Separation</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Katie Kitamura;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The 10,000 Doors of January,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Alix E. Harrow;</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfume: The Story of a Murderer,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Patrick Süskind;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Crossroads</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Jonathan Franzen;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Billion Dollar Loser</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Reeves Wiedeman.</span></p> <p><strong>Thumbs Down:</strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A Man of Parts</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, David Lodge;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Midnight Library</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Matt Haig;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Decagon House Murders</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Yukito Ayatsuji;</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Little, Big,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">John Crowley;</span></p> <p><strong>Pumped to Read:</strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Klara and The Sun</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Kazuo Ishiguro;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">To Paradise</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Hanya Yanagihara;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Leviathan Falls</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, James S.A. Corey;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Enchanted April</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Elizabeth von Arnim;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Hare</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Melanie Finn;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Small Pleasures</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Clare Chambers;</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Maggie Hope</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Series, Susan Elia MacNeal.</span></p> <p><strong>Articles and Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://twitter.com/WriterVrai/status/1470080512618283014?s=20"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Tweet Thread on Anne Rice</span></a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/jenny-erpenbeck-is-keeping-time"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jenny Erpenbeck Profile (New Yorker)</span></a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Sigh) Bad Art Friend (NYT Magazine)</span></a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/on-succession-jeremy-strong-doesnt-get-the-joke"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeremy Strong Profile (New Yorker)</span></a></li> <li><a href= "https://harpers.org/archive/2022/01/ad-nauseam-hanya-yanigihara-to-paradise-the-pandemic-novel/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Review of Yanigihara's</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">To Paradise</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Harpers)</span></a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/22/books/notable-books.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">100 Notable Books of 2021 (NYT)</span></a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/joan-didion/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Joan Didion Archive at the New York Review of Books</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sign up for Molly Young’s books newsletter</span> <a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/read-like-the-wind"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> here</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(NYT)</span></li> </ul>
December 18, 2021
RIP Eve Babitz (Rebroadcast: Bicoastal Season, Episode 3)
<p>RIP Eve Babitz. Here's our episode on her from September 2020. </p> <p>Books mentioned: <em>Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days Fast Company, Sex & Rage, L.A. Woman, I Used to Be Charming</em>, Eve Babitz; <em>Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A</em>, Lili Anolik; <em>Catch-22</em>, Joseph Heller; <em>The Day of the Locust</em>, Nathanael West; <em>Play It as It Lays</em>, Joan Didion; <em>Essays</em>, Michel de Montaigne; <em>Paradise Lost</em>, John Milton;<em>Priestdaddy</em>, Patricia Lockwood; <em>Conversations With Friends</em>, Sally Rooney; <em>How Should a Person Be?</em>, Sheila Heti; <em>Trick Mirror</em>, Jia Tolentino.</p> <p>Resources: </p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/03/eve-babitz-los-angeles-party-scene"> All About Eve--And Then Some</a> (Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/eve-babitz-is-better-than-ever-just-ask-her-longtime-agent-erica-spellman-silverman"> Eve Babitz is Better Than Ever</a> (<a href= "https://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/olivia-aylmer">OLIVIA AYLMER</a>, Vanity Fair)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-sex-and-rage-of-eve-babitz"> Jia Tolentino on Eve</a> (New Yorker)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/style/the-eve-babitz-revival.html"> The Eve Babtiz Revival</a> (Penelope Green, NYT)</li> <li><a href= "https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/my-favorite-year-in-los-angeles-with-eve-babitz-in-1971/"> My Favorite Year: In Los Angeles with Eve Babitz in 1971</a> (Dan Wakefield, LA Review of Books)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/hollywood-eve-babitz-book-review/"> Eve Babitz’s Vision of Total Freedom</a> (Marie Solis, The Nation)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/t-magazine/culture/16brubach.html"> L.A. Confidential</a> (Holly Brubach, NYT Style Magazine)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/the-haunted-california-idyll-of-german-writers-in-exile"> Germans in L.A.</a> (Alex Ross, New Yorker)</li> </ul>
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