Episode Thirty-Seven: Angela Flournoy

In This Episode:

The Tournament of Books has begun! WOO! Angela Flournoy (The Turner House) drops by to talk about her debut novel, Detroit, ghosts, and even a little bit of ToB talk after her round one win against Ban en Banlieue.

Other highlights:

* mustaches: how do we feel about them?
* Sriracha!
* lies, damn lies, and [Goodreads] statistics

LISTEN:

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The Ep. 37 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOK:

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
Christopher: Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
Angela: We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

ALSO MENTIONED:

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Anaya Mathis
Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Oreo by Fran Ross
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
The Whites by Richard Price
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The New World by Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Christopher: Life Itself by Roger Ebert, read by Edward Hermann
Angela: "untitled unmastered" by Kendrick Lamar // "The Epic" by Kamasi Washington // Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee