Episode Eleven: Will Chancellor
In This Episode:
The guys welcome their first in-studio guest: Will Chancellor, author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall. It goes awesomely.
Other highlights:
* The Tournament of Books! It's happening!
* Jesse Ball
* vodka
* travel recommendations
The Ep. 11 Bookshelf
THIS EPISODE'S BOOK:
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor
ALSO MENTIONED:
Theogony by Hesiod
The Odyssey by Homer
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
Ariel Schrag’s high school comics (Awkward and Definition, Potential, Likewise)
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
The Tournament of Books 2015: (available for 30% off via Powell’s!)
Adam by Ariel Schrag
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Wittgenstein Jr. by Lars Iyer
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Redeployment by Phil Klay
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Christopher - Time and Again by Jack Finney
Drew - Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Will - In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Miroslav Krleža