Well, 2019 is over, and I say good riddance to bad rubbish, overall. So many trash things happened this year that when I discovered Notre Dame burned down this year, I had to fact-check it thrice. (It did though.) (Not over it.) On the positive side, I read a lot of terrific books, and there are many more awesome books in the offing for 2020 — which will be a separate post, of course! Here’s a list of my favorite reads of the year, listed in the order in which I read them. There are thirteen of them, which I…
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It’s our very first guest of 2019! This episode, the Jennys welcome the fabulous Charlotte Geater to the podcast to chat about experimental, epistolary, and other unconventional narrative formats. Then we review Gina Apostol’s strange and wonderful new novel Insurrecto, which at least one of us already feels confident is going to be one of our best books of 2019. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.
1:21 – What we’re reading
5:18 – What we’re anticipating
8:37 – Nontraditional narrative formats
35:01 – Insurrecto, by Gina Apostol
50:09 – What we’re reading next time
What we talked about:
Evvie Drake Starts Over, Linda Holmes
Sylvia Townsend Warner letters
A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars, Nicholas Rankin
This Is What It Feels Like, Rebecca Barrow
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
Josh Ritter’s new album, Fever Breaks
Three Identical Strangers (movie)
The Jolly Postman, Janet and Allan Ahlberg
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
Bad Kitty, Michelle Jaffe
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, by Theodora Goss
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz
The Unfortunates, B. S. Johnson
Tripticks, Ann Quin
HHhH, Laurent Binet
Ulysses, James Joyce
White Is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi
Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Shahriar Mandanipour
Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi
interview with Sofia Samatar in Big Echo
Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
The Lodger, Louisa Treger
S, Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (this edition is the one I am indignant about)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
The Marvels, Brian Selznick
Dennis Severs’ House
Insurrecto, Gina Apostol
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry
Transcript is available below the jump.
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