Episode Twenty-Three: Vanessa Manko

In This Episode:

Vanessa Manko, author of The Invention of Exile, stops by the Damn Library to discussing how writing is like dancing, her novel's editorial journey, and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient.

Other Highlights:
* Making movies out of books
* Family

The Ep. 23 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

The Invention of Exile by Vanessa Manko
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg and The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
Christopher: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Vanessa: Miss Emily by Nuala O'Connor and The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

ALSO MENTIONED:

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offil
Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon
Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Christopher: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, read by John Malkovitch
Vanessa: In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
 

The Damn Bar