Summer and Fall 2019

Premiere DateSep 5, 2019
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Categories Culture Literature Talk Weekly Talk
00:00 Show Opening
01:07 Episode Intro
05:00 Braindrops Tropical Fuck Storm
11:33 Books You May Have Missed So Far in 2019
18:50 Who’s My Eugene? Tropical Fuck Storm
23:24 The 2019 Booker Prize: Shortlist
27:23 The Happiest Guy Around Tropical Fuck Storm
30:21 Books to Look Out For in the Fall of 2019
34:28 Maria 62 Tropical Fuck Storm
38:06 Episode Outro
38:36 Finish

It’s an interview dead-zone right now. Plenty of books coming out this week and through September. Interviews that can’t be released until they do. So this week on Book Talk I look at some of the most talked about books you may have missed from this Summer, the shortlist of the Booker Prize 2019, and the most anticipated reads for Fall ’19.

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The-Grammarians by Cathleen Schine

Sontag by Benjamin Moser

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

 

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