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Loose Reads

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.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: April 16, 2018

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: April 16, 2018 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: April 16, 2018, 11.79 MB
Mon 16 Apr 2018

Jenna's reviewing a memoir this week. Educated reveals the trials and tribulations of Idaho native Tara Westover, and her journey to overcoming a radical father and a violent brother to pursue her yearning for knowledge. A tale of fierce family loyalty and the grief that comes with the severing the ties closest to you, Educated isn't one to miss. Give it to your daughter, give it to you grandma - it's got a little something for everyone. 

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: April 9, 2018

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: April 9, 2018 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: April 9, 2018, 10.3 MB
Mon 9 Apr 2018

Kiran brings in a New Zealand novel this week. Brannavan Gnanalingham's Sodden Downstream is just as wonderfully bleak as you'd imagine, chronicling the life of Tamil Sri Lankan refugee Sita as she settles into the Hutt Valley during a once-in-a-century storm. 

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: February 19, 2018

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: February 19, 2018 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: February 19, 2018, 19.81 MB
Mon 19 Feb 2018

Jenna's been hanging out in Grafton Cemetery (not really though) while reading Chavisa Woods' collection of eight short stories from the American undergrowth, What To Do When You're Goth In The Country.

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: February 12, 2018

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: February 12, 2018 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: February 12, 2018, 18.26 MB
Mon 12 Feb 2018

Kiran brings in Mark Yarm's oral history of grunge, Everybody Loves Our Town. Apart from being an excellent excuse to dust off your flannel shirt and Singles soundtrack, is it worth a read?

Loose Reads w/ Ian Brown: January 22, 2018

Loose Reads w/ Ian Brown: January 22, 2018 Loose Reads w/ Ian Brown: January 22, 2018, 42.28 MB
Mon 22 Jan 2018

Jenna's in Memphis but Ian's here to provide Piece of Mind. Or be yr Powerslave. Or... you get the picture. Enjoy as our two resident musicians (Ian and Mike) talk about a book written by a musician about being a musician: Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson's powerful and particularly toilet focused tome What Does This Button Do?

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: January 15, 2018

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: January 15, 2018 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: January 15, 2018, 28.13 MB
Mon 15 Jan 2018

Wellington author Megan Dunn is getting all meta and riffing on Ray Bradbury's classic novel about the end of reading, Fahrenheit 451, in Tinderbox - an exploration of literary culture and the struggle to make sense of life in the twenty-first century.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: January 8, 2018

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: January 8, 2018 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: January 8, 2018, 21.49 MB
Mon 8 Jan 2018

New year, new resolutions and Jenna's got just the book to jumpstart your creativity/productivity matrix. Compiled by The Atlantic's Joe Fassler, Light the Dark features authors musing on their rituals, processes and inspirations. One of the everyone's who think they've got a novel in them? Prove it.

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: December 18, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: December 18, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: December 18, 2017, 17.96 MB
Mon 18 Dec 2017

Allowing a Kiran rare Loose Reads: Phoner Edition seems only fair at this time of year - bookstores are swamped. Still, that means we get the freshest picks from the publisher carton like this week's music scene tome from Sam Knee, Untypical Girls: A Visual Survey of Women in Independent Rock

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: December 11, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: December 11, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: December 11, 2017, 22.98 MB
Mon 11 Dec 2017

Jenna's read _so_ many books this year, she's plum forgotten what she's reviewed on air. (Fair enough.) Still, never hurts to go through the choice picks of the year when the holidays are looming. Presents, anyone?

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: December 4, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: December 4, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: December 4, 2017, 18.12 MB
Mon 4 Dec 2017

Kiran's got another pick for the music lover - a collection of images and documents from the history of one of the great indie labels, Mute - A Visual Document - From 1978 -> Tomorrow.