Episode One Hundred Sixteen: #OneBookNY ("Just Kids")

In This Episode:

Christopher and Drew are in the Damn Library just on their lonesome to talk the city's One Book, One New York choice, Patti Smith's Just Kids. They get right into how it describes a lost New York, and how you might be too old for it at one point, and just old enough for it at another. They also discuss their Top 6 books of the year so far!

The Ep. 116 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOK:

Just Kids by Patti Smith

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neil Stephenson
Christopher: Paper Girls, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang // We Went to the Woods by Caite Dolan-Leach

ALSO MENTIONED:

Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
The Lost Boys (1987)
Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins
The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mad Men (2007-2015)
Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith
M Train by Patti Smith
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Nilda by Nicholasa Mohr
Here is New York by E.B. White
Pushing Daisies (2007-2008)
Ed (2000-2004)
Spring by Ali Smith

TOP 6 OF 2019 SO FAR:

Christopher’s picks: Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken // Bunny by Mona Awad
Drew’s picks: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi // A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Joint SMDB picks: Clyde Fans by Seth // Women Talking by Miriam Toews

The Damn Bar