Episode Eighty-One: Holiday Book Club

In This Episode:

A super-sized wine-soaked feast of an episode to ring out 2017, featuring not one not two but THREE guests! Nozlee Samadzadeh (the ToB's producer), Uli Beutter-Cohen (Subway Book Review's leader), and Bianca Bosker (Cork Dork's author) all came to join us for a suburban book club full of wine and typewriters with Tom Hanks's Uncommon Type. Opinions were had, wine was consumed, and gifts were given! Happy Holidays!

Other Highlights:

* discussion of Christopher's dad-ness
* the happiness / art dichotomy
* at least two people on lavalier mics!
* Patreon! iTunes reviews! Give us a gift that'll last our whole lives, if you'd be so kind!

LISTEN:

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THE EP. 81 BOOKSHELF
(CONTAINING ALL THE BOOKS DISCUSSED WHILE RECORDING)

THIS EPISODE'S BOOK:

Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew (for Christopher): One Christmas by Truman Capote
Christopher (for Drew): Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Drew & Christopher (for the guests): Chambord!
Nozlee: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Bianca: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Uli Beutter-Cohen: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

ALSO MENTIONED:

Future Sex by Emily Witt
The Voyeur's Motel by Gay Talese
That Thing You Do (1996)
At the Stranger's Gate by Adam Gopnik
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
The Wine Lover's Daughter by Anne Fadiman
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
1984 by George Orwell
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Bonfire by Krysten Ritter
Palo Alto by James Franco
Actors Anonymous by James Franco
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
The Sopranos (1999-2007)

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Christopher: Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
Drew: Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli