Burning Books
56 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★ - 9 ratingsA show dedicated to discussing, celebrating, exploring (etc) great books, very good books, bad books, and very bad books
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Episodes
The Private Life - Josh Cohen
December 28, 2013 06:30 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBAn interview with author, professor and psychoanalyst Josh Cohen, spy of our inner selves, examiner of the lies we live, and creator of the smash new meme, '#pervingon'. No secrets, please – we're going English.
The End - Hans Erich Nossack
December 08, 2013 07:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBHans Erich Nossack's rare first person account of the 1943 destruction of Hamburg is served with a side of WG Sebald, who employs the word 'should', with grave consequences. BFFs.
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
November 18, 2013 04:30 - 33 minutes - 21.5 MBKing Charles, Oliver Cromwell, a vagrant narrator, hedge mazes and dreaded puritans – Jeanette Winterson goes historical fiction on us again in her 1989 novel that is less than the sum of its parts. For a short book, it's quite long.
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
October 28, 2013 20:58 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBTraitor? Spy? Loyal American or self-serving amoralist? Howard W Campbell Jr tries to write his own get out of jail free card in in Kurt Vonnegut's 'Mother Night'. Vintage.
The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
October 08, 2013 16:59 - 33 minutes - 18.7 MBCanonical fodder about a little boy with a man's mind, who becomes a fully grown man in a little boy's body, born and raised in the foreshadow and shadow of the Second World War. Blechtrommel is one word for it: execrable.
Leaving the Atocha Station - Ben Lerner
September 18, 2013 16:37 - 18 minutes - 18 MBReview of the 2011 debut novel by Ben Lerner in which a young American goes to Spain on the US government's buck, meets two girls, and learns to fall in love with himself. Excellent book.