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Friday Reads: Absurdities and the spooling quotidian


I’m now going to put mystery guest webpages and books they’ve written near the bottom of my show notes, so you might better resist the temptation to peek. 😜 (This also means that books authored by mystery guests will not be in the regular book list or time stamps but in a separate section farther down.)


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The Maria Campbell video: youtu.be/JnyUdKzj55I?si=RzvFRd1yQgVeBPxY


Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):

00:00 Introduction

03:42 Mystery guest

24:39 Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito

26:50 Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai

28:25 Kintsugi by Anukrti Upadhyay

30:22 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

31:53 My Friends by Hisham Matar

34:03 All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones

36:02 Prophet Song by Paul Lynch


Books mentioned:

The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
goodreads.com/book/show/23311149-the-pat-hobby-stories

The Novelist by Jordan Castro
goodreads.com/book/show/59147138-the-novelist?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14
Richard Owain Roberts’s interview with Jordan Castro: richardowainroberts.substack.com/p/jordan-castro-thoughts-and-interview

‘Getting the Pump: On the resurrection of the body’ by Jordan Castro in Harper’s: harpers.org/archive/2024/02/getting-the-pump-jordan-castro

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
goodreads.com/book/show/46164.Tender_Is_the_Night?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_14

May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald
goodreads.com/book/show/890139.May_Day

When the Lights Go Down: Film Writings 1975-1980 by Pauline Kael
goodreads.com/blog/show/2728-readers-top-100-romances-of-the-past-three-years?ref=Top100Rom24_eb

Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito
Curtis Bauer (Translator)
Shawn and Anna’s chat about it on Books on the Go: youtu.be/on-a01J1KSg?si=VnQ_HNeuxISMFP5f

Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai
Polly Barton (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/62972502-mild-vertigo

Kintsugi by Anukrti Upadhyay
goodreads.com/book/show/54345468-kintsugi?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_28

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
goodreads.com/book/show/8128338-of-human-bondage

My Friends by Hisham Matar
goodreads.com/book/show/127488823-my-friends

All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
goodreads.com/book/show/11751.All_Aunt_Hagar_s_Children

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
goodreads.com/book/show/158875813-prophet-song?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_12




Richard Owain Roberts on Substack: richardowainroberts.substack.com

Hello Friend We Missed You by Richard Owain Roberts
goodreads.com/book/show/49663261-hello-friend-we-missed-you

All The Places We Lived by Richard Owain Roberts
goodreads.com/book/show/25621583-all-the-places-we-lived

'Terrence Malick' by Richard Owain Roberts, on Richard’s Substack: richardowainroberts.substack.com/p/terrence-malick


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