Show Notes
In this week’s episode, we respond to our listeners with all our deepest, darkest DNF secrets: why we do it, when we do it, and how we feel when it happens. We also talk about the books we’ve read recently as well as the backlist titles and new releases we hope to explore in the coming weeks.
Book News
(2:31) The Sealey Challenge
(4:25) The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
(4:48) Midden Witch by Fiona Benson
(5:16) Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
(6:02) That Broke Into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott / What The Earth Seemed To Say by Marie Howe / Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
(6:44) So I Got To Thinking podcast
Current Reads
(11:11) Child Of My Heart by Alice McDermot
(14:19) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
(18:15) Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
DNFs
(23:43) Middlemarch by George Eliot
(26:43) Let The Great World Spin by Column McCann
(27:17) Apeirogon by Column McCann
(27:48) Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
(30:28) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
(30:58) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
(35:39) Twist by Colum McCann
(39:23) Neuromancer by William Gibson
(40:06) Butter by Asako Yuzuki
(43:25) Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart
(44:48) The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
(46:38) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
(54:06) This Other Eden by Paul Hardy
(55:02) Rouge / All’s Well / Bunny by Mona Awad
(56:17) The Ishiguro Effect
(59:06) Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
(59:28) I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Towards Darkness by Irène Sola
What We’re Reading Next
(1:01:03) We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
(1:01:37) Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan
(1:02:11) Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar: A Novel by Katie Yees
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