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‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Carver’ by David Carpenter - in addition to being in Writing Home, it’s also available on Dave’s website: dccarpenter.com/carver.html
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Zooming In: Anna Baillie-Karas and Shawn on readers influencing writers: youtu.be/cMbz4rk79ZU
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‘The Miraculous Return of Khaled from the Dead’ by Danny Ramadan
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[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn the Book Maniac, and Brian and the words Zooming In: Brian of Bookish and Shawn the Book Maniac give reading challenges a workout]Friday Reads: Some serial, weird, and tragicomic readsShawn Breathes Books2024-05-03 | Friday Reads: Some serial, weird, and tragicomic reads
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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
02:25 Mystery guest
25:56 Week in Review
26:31 Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls
27:30 Shawn invokes the escape clause
28:38 Cormorant Lake by Faith Merino
32:07 Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
35:39 Blackouts by Justin Torres
35:55 Watching You Without Me by Lynn Coady
36:39 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol. 2 by Beth Brower
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00:00 Political commentary
03:04 A fabulous biblioadventure
04:35 Mystery guest
22:26 Week in Review
23:26 Johnny I Hardly Knew You by Edna O'Brien
25:20 Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
26:58 Marzahn, mon amour by Katja Oskamp
27:13 Making Up the Gods by Marion Agnew
28:56 Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England by Nino Strachey
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The first part of this chat, where Douglas talks about his own writing, is identical to what was featured in my March 29 Friday Reads video. The second part, where Douglas talks about recent reading, starts at the 30:12 mark.
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Zooming In is a series of chats with bookish social media luminaries, writers, and readers. Each short episode features a conversation about a book-related article, podcast episode, etc. The playlist of all Zooming In episodes is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQfTh913NXVUFqKCzGlTh8Ez.
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Zooming In is a series of chats with bookish social media luminaries, writers, and readers. Each short episode features a conversation about a book-related article, podcast episode, etc. The playlist of all Zooming In episodes is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQfTh913NXVUFqKCzGlTh8Ez.
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I’m now putting mystery guest webpages and books they’ve written near the bottom of my show notes, so that 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 that separate section farther down.)
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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
01:33 Mystery guest
27:53 A new benefit for Patreon members
29:50 Week in Review
31:03 Jewels by David Carpenter
32:30 The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan
35:55 Strange Flowers: A Novel by Donal Ryan
40:56 Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Zooming In is a series of chats with bookish social media luminaries, writers, and readers. Each short episode features a conversation about a book-related article, podcast episode, etc. The playlist of all Zooming In episodes is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQfTh913NXVUFqKCzGlTh8Ez.
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Zooming In is a series of chats with bookish social media luminaries, writers, and readers. Each short episode features a conversation about a book-related article, podcast episode, etc. The playlist of all Zooming In episodes is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQfTh913NXVUFqKCzGlTh8Ez.
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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
01:40: Update on Kenji
04:19 Mystery guest
34:12 Week in Review
35:45 Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi
40:20 Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Emperor of Rome: Mphuthumi Ntabeni interviews Mary Beard: https://www.litnet.co.za/emperor-of-rome-mphuthumi-ntabeni-interviews-mary-beard/?fbclid=IwAR1EoTqVbyZHviQyIID_WBiIq1CpfpVr42h9bNjqFvzcLRoZDXjZakgIWHw_aem_AQWsZzyfesYQS26bYXDViBlTyayK6Pvn9DDqVRNYDOLUiQkEg8vpX8O5BBsBdItb7Ck
‘The lost diaries of Tiyo Soga’ by Mphuthumi Ntabeni https://www.litnet.co.za/the-lost-diaries-of-tiyo-soga/
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A Disability Activist is Asked to Change Her Speech by Boston University Her Response: in Future Speaking Contracts, No Changes Will Be Allowed by Kristen Shahverdian and Samantha Lafrance: pen.org/a-disability-activist-is-asked-to-change-her-speech
Zooming In is a series on my channel featuring chats with bookish social media luminaries, writers, and readers. Each short episode features a conversation about a book-related article, podcast episode, etc. The playlist of all Zooming In episodes is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQfTh913NXVUFqKCzGlTh8Ez.
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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Mystery guest
32:09 Week in Review
32:44 Patreon update
33:20 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
35:10 A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
38:14 Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
41:46 Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi
42:48 Jewels by David Carpenter
44:13 Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England by Nino Strachey
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Zooming In is a series on my channel featuring chats with bookish social media luminaries, writers, and readers. Each short episode features a conversation about a book-related article, podcast episode, etc. The playlist of all Zooming In episodes is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQfTh913NXVUFqKCzGlTh8Ez.
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I’m now putting mystery guest webpages and books they’ve written near the bottom of my show notes, so that 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 that separate section farther down.)
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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Mystery guest
31:10 You must read this newspaper article
32:25 Week in Review
32:52 Home Stretch by Graham Norton
35:12 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
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Zooming In is a series on my channel featuring chats with bookish social media luminaries, writers, and readers. Each short episode features a conversation about a book-related article, podcast episode, etc. The playlist of all Zooming In episodes is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQfTh913NXVUFqKCzGlTh8Ez.
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I’m now putting mystery guest webpages and books they’ve written near the bottom of my show notes, so that 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 that separate section farther down.)
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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
02:19 Mystery guest
18:44 Week in Review
19:38 Patreon announcements
21:01 Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter
24:12 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
Cauvery Madhavan on Twitter: @CauveryMadhavan Cauvery’s tweet about the giveaway of signed copies of The Tainted: https://x.com/cauverymadhavan/status/1768205688264650854?s=61&t=9QN2vUfeojrFts92uUc8uQ Cauvery’s website: cauverymadhavan.com
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Yuki Tejima’s website: booknerdtokyo.com @booknerdtokyo on Instagram
BOOK LIST Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai (trans. Polly Barton) A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata (trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter) Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito (trans. Curtis Bauer) Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima (trans. Geraldine Harcourt) Also Territory of Light and Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima Grass for my Pillow by Sayiichi Maruya (trans. Dennis Keene) The Little House by Kyoto Nakajima (trans. Ginny Tapley Takamori) There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuo Tsumura (trans. Polly Barton) Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton Butter by Asako Yuzuki (trans. Polly Barton)
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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
03:20 Mystery guest
18:42 Week in Review
19:38 An experiment
24:37 Cormorant Lake by Faith Merino
26:10 Summer by Edith Wharton
Books mentioned:
A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9981436-a-journey-with-two-maps?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_11...
Frost in May by Antonia White goodreads.com/book/show/479975.Frost_in_May (The Backlisted podcast episode: https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/112-antonia-white-frost-in-may)
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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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00:00 Introduction
02:00 Mystery guest
25:38 Week in Review
26:30 Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? By Jenny Diski
29:05 Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter
30:10 A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940
31:31 How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica
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Zooming In is a series on my channel featuring chats with bookish social media luminaries, writers, and readers. Each short episode features a conversation about a book-related article, podcast episode, etc. The playlist of all Zooming In episodes is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQfTh913NXVUFqKCzGlTh8Ez.
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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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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
03:46 Mystery guest
21:14 Week in Review (revamped)
23:15 The Forest by Georges Bugnet
26:37 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
28:03 Apparitions by Adam Pottle
30:20 The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology by Karina Vernon (Editor)
31:23 A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
32:18 A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940
33:19 Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? By Jenny Diski
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* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer * Mean Spirit, by Linda Hogan * Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann * Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities, by PaulSeesequasis * Day, by Michael Cunningham * The Hours, by Michael Cunningham * Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young * The Book of Forgotten Authors, by Christopher Fowler * The Sea Change of Angela Lewes, by Cynthia Propper Seton * The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos, by Nick Jans * A Life on Paper, by Georges-Olivier Chateaureynard, translated by Edward Gauvin * The Conductor and Other Tales, by Jean Ferry, translated by Edward Gauvin * The One Who Did Not Ask, by Altar Fatima, translated by Rukhsana Ahmad * Severina, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, translated by Chris Andrews * The African Shore, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, translated by Jeffrey Gray * Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle * With or Without Angels, by Douglas Bruton * The Sight of Death, by T.J. Clark * Volt, by Alan Heathcock * 40, by Alan Heathcock * The New Perspective, by K. Arnold Price
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