138: Backlist: Ali Smith ("The Accidental")

In This Episode:

In This Episode:

Drew won the annual Tournament of Books bet and chose Ali Smith for this year's "backlist" episode, so the guys read THE ACCIDENTAL in a nod to this fall's SuperRooster Tournament of ToB Champions. We talk about revisiting books we once hated, the vibrancy and immediacy of Smith’s prose, and a bit more Super Rooster pontificating.

It's still pandemic times, too.

(NB: This episode was recorded in late May, just before police brutality protests went national. SMDB proudly stands with the protestors and we believe black lives matter.)

The Ep. 138 Bookshelf

PLACES TO SUPPORT:

The Bail Project
The Black Visions Collective
Reclaim the Block
your local community’s bail fund
PEN America
Food Issues Group
Emergency Release Fund

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Wild Milk by Sabrina Orah Mark (from The Dorothy Project’s shop) // The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
Christopher: The Lightness by Emily Temple // Again Again by E. Lockhart // The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead

ALSO MENTIONED:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Groundhog Day (1993, directed by Harold Ramis)
Every Day by David Leviathan
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Penguin Inks series
A Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Saturday by Ian McEwan
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Autumn by Ali Smith
Winter by Ali Smith
Spring by Ali Smith
Summer by Ali Smith
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Rashomon (1951, directed by Akira Kurosawa)
The Addams Family by Charles Addams
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Ripley Novels by Patricia Highsmith
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
@brandnewflavor
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Christopher: a snack subscription box like Universal Yums or munchpak // The Collected Peanuts by Charles Schulz // The Collected Moomin by Tove Jansson // getting a dog
Drew: How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi // Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark (pre-order)

The Damn Bar