In This Episode: Laura van den Berg swings by the Damn Library to celebrate the paperback release of her first novel, Find Me, and talk about the surreally cinematic The Naked Eye by Yoko Tawada.

Other highlights:

* It's really fun to say "Deneuve"

* It's also fun to not be too bound by reality

* another reference to the SMDB Lost Episodes

* Laura's list of deleted sections from Find Me

LISTEN:

The Ep. 34 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

Find Me by Laura van den Berg
The Naked Eye by Yoko Tawada

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Animal Money by Michael Cisco and The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide by Kieron Gillan & Jamie McKelvie
Christopher: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Laura: Vertigo by Joanna Walsh // What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell // Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee // Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt

ALSO MENTIONED:

What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Laura: The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
Christopher: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

The Damn Library

Episode Thirty-Four: Laura van den Berg