Episode One Hundred and Ten: Leanne Shapton

In This Episode:

Leanne Shapton drops by the Damn Library for a spook-filled episode to discuss her new collection, Guestbook: Ghost Stories. Christmas wrapping paper, first stage appearances, tennis, and being haunted all get some airtime along with lots of other segues and divergences (including the first recorded dip into the Damn Library), plus everyone gets rapturous about Miriam Toews' weighty and excellent new novel, Women Talking.

The Ep. 110 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

Guestbook: Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton
Women Talking by Miriam Toews

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Something Bright, Then Holes by Maggie Nelson // Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou, trans. by Helen Stevenson
Leanne: three red blocks from Mrs. Huizenga in Toronto
Christopher: In Miniature by Simon Garfield // How Could She by Lauren Mechling

ALSO MENTIONED:

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris by Leanne Shapton
Was She Pretty by Leanne Shapton
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Dead by James Joyce
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Third Man Factor by John Geiger
”Artifacts of a Doomed Expedition” by Leanne Shapton (NYT, Mar 8 2016)
open letters.
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Witness (1985)
All The President’s Men (1976)
Heap House by Edward Carey
The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
”The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Leanne: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Christopher: Little by Edward Carey

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