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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.

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Loose Reads: Monday July 2, 2018

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Mon 2 Jul 2018

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: June 25, 2018

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Mon 25 Jun 2018

Kiran's been waiting years for this number, The Mars Room by 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?

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: June 18, 2018

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Mon 18 Jun 2018

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.

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: June 11, 2018

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Mon 11 Jun 2018

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.

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: May 28, 2018

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Mon 28 May 2018

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. 

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: May 21, 2018

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Mon 21 May 2018

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.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: May 14, 2018

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Mon 14 May 2018

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. 

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: May 7, 2018

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Mon 7 May 2018

Kiran's brought in an Auckland Writers Festival special today. Eileen Myles' Afterglow, A Dog Memoir paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant - a pit ball named Rosie.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: April 30, 2018

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Mon 30 Apr 2018

We're time-travelling all the way back to 2003, Singapore on this week's edition of Loose Reads. Listen as Jenna takes us through a tale of memories, powerful female friendships, and the decisions that just can't resist haunting us. It's Sharlene Teo's debut novel, Ponti.

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: April 23, 2018

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Mon 23 Apr 2018

Kiran's brought in a rock-infused number this week. Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue is exactly what the title suggests: a full feature of design collective Hipgnosis, showcasing groundbreaking cover art created for iconic rock 'n' roll giants including Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd to name a few.