Episode Ninety-Seven: #OneBookNY ("Manhattan Beach")

In This Episode:

New York City has spent the summer all reading the same book (….right, everybody?) and that book is Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach! Naturally, being New Yorkers, we joined the fun — so here are our thoughts, on this book, on New York, and on more ways to celebrate reading across the boroughs.

The Ep. 97 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOK:

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 ed. by Yuka Igarashi / The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Christopher: The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

ALSO MENTIONED:

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngoze Adichie
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Amor Towles’ New York Times review of Manhattan Beach
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim
Dreamland by Kevin Baker
”The Death of a Once-Great City” by Kevin Baker (Harper’s)
Here is New York by E.B. White
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan

NEXT #ONEBOOKNY NOMINATIONS:

Christopher: Here You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Drew: The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PATRONS:

Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet, Translated by Helge Dascher (recommended by friend of the show Bob Lopez)
Don’t Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin (recommended by LL Jones)
My Favorite Things is Monsters by Emil Ferris (recommended by @hogsandwich)

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Outline / Transit / Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Christopher: The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar

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