Summer and Fall 2019
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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