205: Christine Grillo (HESTIA STRIKES A MATCH) & Molly Keane's GOOD BEHAVIOUR
In This Episode:
Into the Damn Library Christine Grillo zooms, and what do we talk about? Her inventive, touching, hopefully not too prescient HESTIA STRIKES A MATCH, plus all that went into it, like parents and politics and fireplace decor. Plus, she brings along the archly funny and itself harrowing Good Behaviour by Molly Keane. Books, you better believe it!
THE EP. 205 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Christine: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, gardening gloves that go above the elbow, gardening sheers, gardening knife
Christopher: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling
ALSO MENTIONED:
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Paul Murray’s New Yorker piece on The Metaverse
Derry Girls (Netflix, created by Lisa McGee)
Severance by Ling Ma
The Onion’s Man on the Street Feature, aka, American Voices
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain SMDB episode
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Christine: Letters from an American Newsletter by Heather Cox Richardson, Liberation Day by George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders, We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman, The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Christopher: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
