Tayari Jones on An American Marriage, Nick Earls with Cory Doctorow on Green Room gossip, Eleanor Limprecht's novel The Passengers, and American linguist Ben Zimmer on the passing of Tom Wolfe

The Book Show

English - May 22, 2018 00:05 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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An American Marriage by US writer Tayari Jones, has won a highly influential fan, with Oprah Winfrey adding it to her Book Club list for 2018, the first in our new Green Room series in which Australian author Nick Earls speaks to writers about life on the road, a look at Eleanor Limprecht's research for her novel The Passengers and US linguist on the contribution of Tom Wolfe to our lexicon.