Episode 32 - Where Literature is at this Moment with Bernie Lombardi
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On this episode, Bernie Lombardi, a professor and researcher, discusses how his popular bookstagram and award lists are intertwined, along with his experiences reading the lists and even getting to go to the final ceremonies of a few awards! We also hear about his new author obsession and a very cool way that he tracks his reading each year.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Held by Anne Michaels
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Books Highlighted by Bernie:
Milkman by Anna Burns
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
We the Animals by Justin Torres
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Atonement by Ian McEwan
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
James by Percival Everett
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
Blackouts by Justin Torres
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