Ep 37: Are Literary Prizes A Reading List? Inside the Nobel, Pulitzer, Booker & National Book Award
Curious ReadersShow Notes
In the height of Prize Season, Amanda and Joseph are back with a bumper episode asking what all the hullabaloo is about - how are prizes judged and awarded, and are the winners worth our time? Plus, they talk about Amanda’s recent trip to the Women’s Prize ceremony, and as always, what they’ve been reading recently and what they hope to pick up next.
Bookish News
Hay Festival Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams @sarahww_ Women’s Prize Women’s Prize Live and other events Rivals on Disney+ Felicity Blunt @thebluntoffice Laura Wade Katherine Parkinson @parkinson.katherine Field Work as a Sex Object by Meena Kadasamy @k.a.n.d.a.s.a.m.y Rapture by Emily Maguire @emilymaguirewriter These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany @salmaelwardany The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet @lyse.doucet The Correspondent by Virgina Evans @virginia.l.evans Dominion by Addie E. Kitchens @addie_citchens The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson @marxia1
Recent Reads
Air by Christian Kracht Eurotrash by Christian Kracht Imperium by Christian Kracht You With the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate @christinapplegate
Prizes and Prize-Worthy Recommendations
The Nobel Prize for Literature The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Booker Prize National Book Award Milkman by Anna Burns ‘The Hemingway Veto’ and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The Riders In The Chariot by Patrick White The Tree of Man by Patrick White The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty Martyr by Kaveh Akbar @kavehakbar.kavehakbar Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively Trust by Hernan Diaz
What We’re Reading Next
The Beautiful Ones by Prince and Dan Piepenbring The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout @lizstroutauthor
Also mentioned
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