Episode Eighty-Seven: Ruth Curry

In This Episode:

Ruth Curry joins the guys in the Damn Library fresh off her #TOB18 judge-ship to chat about all sorts of things, like balancing her reading life and her work life, what she reads for at Emily Books, and why she has a Tiny Letter. We also get to chattin' about Sigrid Nunez's The Friend, which is a book about academia and dogs, so of course everyone has a lot to say.

The Ep. 87 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOK:

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Christopher: The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
Drew: Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
Ruth: Census by Jesse Ball

ALSO MENTIONED:

The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Look at Me by Anita Brookner
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Things to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
10:04 by Ben Lerner
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Cold Country Farm by Stella Gibbons
Siempre Susan by Sigrid Nunez
The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Brolliology by Marion Rankine
The Sandlot (1993)
White God (2014)

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Christopher: Sex Criminals Vol. 4 by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
Drew: Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue
Ruth: A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen and A Country Life by Rachel Cusk
 

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