ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Emily and Michael are two old friends who want to know: What have you read lately?
Update frequency:
every 37 days
Average audio length:
55 minutes
English
United States
11 episodes
since Jan. 17, 2019
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Michael struggles with an unconventional mashup of holocaust memoir and
sports-based dystopia in Georges Perec’s W, or The Memory of
Childhood, while Emily is captivated by the sexual
politics of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, yet
frustrated by its open-ended narrative. They talk about trauma, memory…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Michael is captivated by the brutality and isolation of pre-modern
Newfoundland in Michael Crummey’s The
Innocents, while Emily delights in the “tragedy of
manners” and the woes of bored rich people fallen on hard times in Patrick
deWitt’s French Exit. They talk about puberty,
death, forgiveness, t…
Michael posits that George Eliot’s Middlemarch
(“the most Victorian of Victorian novels”) is the anti-Atlas Shrugged, while
Emily considers just how much thicker blood is than water with Oyinkan
Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer.
They talk about sibling bonds, literary awards, adolescent r…
Michael joins his name-twin on the greatest adventure undertaken by humankind
and finds him companionable, warm, and wise in Carrying the
Fire, while Emily breaks down the walls of the
“chick lit” ghetto to revel in City of Girls, a
surprising story of feminine sexual liberation. They talk about ut…
Emily strongly recommends an encounter with the disorienting bleakness and
collapse of Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s
Blindness, while Michael strongly recommends an
encounter with the soul-wracking cruelty and violence of Megan Gail Coles’s
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun
Club. They tal…
Michael thinks about history and community through reading Newfoundland
Portfolio, a collection of obituaries by J.M.
Sullivan, while Emily considers the abnormality of the hypernormal and
different ways of being happy in Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store
Woman. They talk about Newfoundland, indepe…
Michael picks at the banality of evil portrayed in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An
Artist of the Floating World, while Emily
desperately wants to finish Isabel Allende’s enchanting work of magical
realism, The House of the Spirits, but is
prevented from it by living on a windswept rock in the North Atlantic. T…
Emily thinks the world would be a better place if everyone read Lucy Knisley’s
graphic novel account of her difficult pregnancy, Kid
Gloves, while Michael rhapsodizes about
experiments in empathy and postmodern mysticism spurred on by Kathryn Davis’s
The Thin Place. They talk about myths and
miscon…
Michael found the formal experiments and wild content of Darcie Wilder’s
literally show me a healthy person to be
compelling but not without knots, while Emily enjoys the nuance of Meg
Wolitzer’s novel The Wife. They talk about
delayed adolescence, the unacknowledged genius of the wives of ‘great’ …
Emily found Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad to
be a missed opportunity, especially when compared to Madeline Miller’s
Circe, while Michael was delighted by Yukiko
Motoya’s unsettling and strange short stories in The Lonesome
Bodybuilder. They talk about the characters on the
margins of great stori…
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