226: Kate Slotover (THE BOOK CLUB REVIEW) discusses Helene Hanff's LETTER FROM NEW YORK and Joseph Mitchell's UP IN THE OLD HOTEL
In This Episode:
Kate Slotover, host of The Book Club Review podcast, joins me in the Damn Library all the way from London! Drinks are had, New York is discussed, along with two different worlds of New York reportage, Helene Hanff’s Letter from New York, and Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel. Such a joy!
THE EP. 226 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Kate: Any Person is the Only Self by Elisa Gabbert, Stuart Little by E.B. White, Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth, Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
Christopher: The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen, Coyote’s in the House by Elmore Leonard, Back to the Local by Maurice Gorham, Backstory Magazine Issue No. 2
ALSO MENTIONED:
Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
3:10 to Yuma by Elmore Leonard
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
No Cuts to NYC Libraries
Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
The 22 Funniest Novels Since Catch-22
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Rental House by Weike Wang
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Oh Reader
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier
The Duchess of Bloomsbury by Helene Hanff
Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff
”Professor Seagull” by Joseph Mitchell
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan
Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb
Joe Gould’s Teeth by Jill Lepore
The Magician’s Trilogy by Lev Grossman
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Kate: Helene Hanff’s Desert Island Discs, A Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton-Hill
Christopher: The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
