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198: Spring Horizon Ramble 2023, or, The Re-Return of Drew

In This Episode:

Former co-host, writer, and podcast journeyman Drew Broussard sits down to talk about, what else? Books. The Tournament of Books, inventing rather than referencing art within fiction, the problem with thriller titles these days… it’s all out on the table.


 
 

THE EP. 198 BOOKSHELF

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: You Should Have Told Me by Leah Konen, The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
Christopher
: The Book of Spells by Sara Maitland, Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh, Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly

ALSO MENTIONED:

Isolation Gin
Highlights Magazine
Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
Rose Books
The Tournament of Books
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue
It Rides a Pale Horse by Andy Marino
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: The Witches of Thistle Grove Series by Lana Harper, Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, transl. by Megan McDowell, Strange Weather’s New Moon Voodoo
Christopher
: Epic: The Musical, I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

THE DAMN BAR:

 
 
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