How to Read Literary Fiction that Doesn't Want You to Read It

Novel Gazing Podcast

English - February 11, 2020 13:58 - 50 minutes
Books Arts Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: E2: Translated / To Be Translated Literary Fiction

Next Episode: E4: Film Adaptations and Autumn de Wilde on EMMA

Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, how to read books that are very difficult to get through. What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading?

This episode is sponsored by The Stationery Shop; b, Book, and Me; and Book Marks.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

“Hillary without Bill: Curtis Sittenfeld rewrites Clinton’s personal history” by Alison Flood

“What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind” by Varlam Shalamov

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Roots by Alex Haley

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Beowulf by Gareth Hinds

The Cooper’s Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary by Joan Hoff & Marian Yeates

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

To get even more book news and recommendations, sign up for our New Books newsletter!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.