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For our next episode, we will discuss Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy by Rebecca West. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late January.
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Books mentioned:
- Tone by Kate Zambreno and Sofia Samatar
- We the Parasites by A. V. Marraccini
- Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by John Guillory
- James by Percival Everett
- Your Utopia by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur
- There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
- A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Be Holding: A Poem by Ross Gay
- The Hunter by Tana French
- The Searcher by Tana French
- Colored Television by Danzy Senna
- The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City by Kevin Baker
- The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov
- Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton
- Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
- Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
- Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
- The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
- Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
- Opacities by Sofia Samatar
- Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee
- The Skin of Dreams by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Chris Clarke
- Union Station by David Downing
- Point Zero by Seicho Matsumoto, translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai
- With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang
- Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi
- Modern Poetry: Poems by Diane Seuss
- Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
- Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
- Notes From the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing by Elspeth Barker
- All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
- Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy by Rebecca West
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- The Second Pass – http://thesecondpass.com/
- “Why You Left Social Media: A Guesswork” by Sofia Samatar – https://magazine.catapult.co/places/stories/why-you-left-social-media-a-guesswork
- The American Vandal Podcast, Season Eight – https://marktwainstudies.com/the-american-vandal-podcast/
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