Episode Twenty-Five: Birthday!
In This Episode:
We've been doing the podcast for a whole year! Happy Birthday to Us! Where's the cake?
Other highlights:
* ToB16 Hopes & Dreams
* Favorite Books from the First Year of the Show
* Has Drew Read A Little Life Yet?
* Man Booker Prize conjecture
* GIVEAWAY: City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Listen:
The Ep. 25 Bookshelf
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Christopher: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, High as the Horse's Bridle by Scott Cheshire, Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson, and The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
Drew: The 2015 Harper Perennial Olive Editions (Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, Lit by Mary Karr, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, and Black Boy by Richard Wright)
ALSO MENTIONED:
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
The Familiar, Vol. 1 by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry
Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry
Dear Life by Alice Munro
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Complete Peanuts by Charles Schultz