235: Cynthia Weiner (A GORGEOUS EXCITEMENT) & Susanna Moore's IN THE CUT
In This Episode:
Cynthia Weiner zooms in and starts off the year right with her 80s New York novel, A Gorgeous Excitement. We talk all the trappings of true crime and female friendship and mental health, plus Cynthia brings along Susanna Moore’s 90s cult classic In the Cut.
THE EP. 235 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Cynthia: The Sisters K by Maureen Sun, The Snarling Girl by Elisa Albert, Kissing Potion
Christopher: Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann, It Lasts Forever and then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
ALSO MENTIONED:
Mary Gaitskill’s Substack
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
James by Percival Everett
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
Marlena by Julie Buntin
Freaks and Geeks (created by Judd Apatow, 1999)
Superior Women by Alice Adams
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Lost Wife by Susanna Moore
Jillian by Halle Butler
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Cynthia: Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler, Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Christopher: On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, transl. by Barbara Haveland
