Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Suri Reddy from Time Out Bookstore, bringing us a different book to talk about each week.
Kiran talks to Mikey about Solar Bones, Irish writer Mike McCormack's third novel and longlist selection for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Sitting outside of standard modes of punctuation, what did Kiran make of McCormack's poetic, ghost-led narrative?
Jenna talks to Mikey about Sour Heart, the debut collection of stories from American writer and poet Jenny Zhang. A favourite of the omnipresent Lena Dunham, Zhang's stories speak to the experiences of Chinese American female adolescence in New York City. But do Lena and Jenna agree?
Kiran talks to Mikey about The New Animals, Pip Adam’s new novel that walks the streets of Auckland City present, examining the fashion scene, intergenerational tension and modern life with an unflinching eye.
Jenna talks to Mikey about The 7th Function of Language, the new 'fictional non-fiction' by French author Laurent Binet. A dense, reference packed historical thriller regarding the death-by-laundry-van of semiotics master Roland Barthes, Jenna asks whether it's possible to still enjoy a book on a shallower 'level of the onion'.
Kiran talks to Mikey about Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World, a new history of the democratic genre and rock 'n' roll precursor, by English singer, songwriter and left-wing activist Billy Bragg.
Jenna talks to Mikey about Bad Feminist, the much-loved and much-lauded collection of essays by professor, commentator and recent Auckland Writers Festival guest, Roxane Gay.
Jenna talks to Mikey about Theft By Finding, a collection of diary excerpts by acclaimed humourist, author and This American Life contributor David Sedaris.
Music can be a pretty unifying force, especially for the geographically isolated. Kiran talks to Mikey about music critic David Keenan's first novel, This Is Memorial Device, which evokes this idea while portraying a fictional post-punk band in '70s-'80s small town Scotland.
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