Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Kiran Dass from Time Out Bookstore, bringing us a different book to talk about each week.
Suri is with us this morning to chat On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson, a biography that helps understand MJ's life and how he became the performance genius that lives on. While revealing a few of the thrilling stories in the book, Suri also lets us in on her favourite song by the critically acclaimed artist. It's a groovy time on Loose Reads this morning.
Kiran's back in with some tips on How To Be Famous, the tale of a rising star in London. That only means one thing... Brit Pop. Mike's excited, Kiran, kind of, is too? We're got it all this morning, books, music, and books about music.
Jenna brings in a grizzly, true crime novel this week and we're ready for it. Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark, a chilling narration of California's Golden State Killer. And how about those ancestry tests... Hmm. Gripping Jenna on the edge of her seat, it's definitely something to get your hands on.
Kiran's been waiting years for this number, The Mars Roomby Rachel Kushner, talk about hype. Depicting life inside prison walls, the novel tells stories of people and the environment in a different world. Well worth the wait, right Kiran?
Jenna's back with a laugh for us this week. A hilarious memoir, Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood recalls life after her father watched The Exorcism on a submarine 72 times and converted to Catholicism. Yep, that's right - 72 times. Now that's something to write home about.
Remember that time when Cool Britannia ruled? Or, at the very least, had really good PR? Iconic British magazine The Face probably had a lot to do with that, and Kiran's brought in a brand new tome on its history and heyday, Paul Gorman's The Story of The Face: The Magazine That Changed Culture. Ooh err.
Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Alex Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Kiran joins us for a very sonically-inclined read this week: Listen To This encompasses Ross' many musings from The New Yorker, and teaches us how to listen just that little bit closer. How delightful.
Jenna wraps up another successful Auckland Writers Festival (ft. highlights from international authors Durga Chew-Bose and Sharlene Teo), and we discuss Hellholes of the World: A Love Story by David G. Brown. A pure, rough and tumble travel memoir published posthumously, David tells of travelling to places that are not usually on your bucket list: Israel, Syria, the Congo, Banglasdesh, Sierra Leone and more. A classic travel memoir with excellent storytelling and political insight.
Jenna's entered a sort of Writers Festival frenzy this week and it's not hard to see why. Ft. talks from international and local literary scholars alike, musical performances from friends of bFM Lawrence Arabia and Tama Waipara, and an abundance of free events you've just gotta get your claws on.
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