Jul 10, 2015
This week Tom and Chad discuss the merging of the Man Booker International Prize with the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the waning interest in Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Book Club, and the Women's World Cup of Literature. There are also rants about "Sevenevens," praise for the Minions movie, and more soccer talk, including the best video.
Since a number of listeners have asked for this, here's a complete list of books and authors that we mention on this episode:
- The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky
- Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Delirium by Laura Restrepo
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin
- Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
- All of the books in Zuckerberg's book club
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
- 50 Shades of Gray by E. L. James
- Roberto Bolaño
- Michel Houellbecq
- The Mersault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
- Hunter S Thompson
- Tom Wolfe
- W. G. Sebald
- David Foster Wallace
- Jonathan Lethem
- Philip K. Dick
- Miss Lonelyhearts & Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
- Karl Ove Knausgaard
- City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson