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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/ Kiran Dass: July 17, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: July 17, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: July 17, 2017, 14.92 MB
Mon 17 Jul 2017

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.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: July 10, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: July 10, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: July 10, 2017, 12.12 MB
Mon 10 Jul 2017

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.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: June 26, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: June 26, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: June 26, 2017, 16.21 MB
Mon 26 Jun 2017

Jenna talks to Mikey about Theft By Finding, a collection of diary excerpts by acclaimed humourist, author and This American Life contributor David Sedaris.

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: June 19, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: June 19, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: June 19, 2017, 18.71 MB
Mon 19 Jun 2017

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.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: May 29, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: May 29, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: May 29, 2017, 14.2 MB
Mon 29 May 2017

Jenna talks to Mikey about Marlena, a novel by Julie Buntin about the intensity of a teenage friendship between two girls in rural Michigan.

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: May 22, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: May 22, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: May 22, 2017, 15.63 MB
Mon 22 May 2017

Kiran breaks down the Ockham Book Awards and her two favourite guests from the recent Auckland Writers' Festival: Anne Enright and Teju Cole.

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: May 15, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: May 15, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Jenna Todd: May 15, 2017, 12.91 MB
Mon 15 May 2017

Jenna talks to Mikey about the first full length novel from Auckland Writers Festival guest George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo.

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: May 8, 2017

Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: May 8, 2017 Loose Reads w/ Kiran Dass: May 8, 2017, 13.47 MB
Mon 8 May 2017

Kiran, Mikey and Sarah talk about the brand new autobiography from Throbbing Gristle's legendary Cosey Fanni Tutti, Art Sex Music.

Loose Reads

Loose Reads Loose Reads, 8.63 MB
Mon 1 May 2017

Loose Reads: Universal Harvester

Loose Reads: Universal Harvester Loose Reads: Universal Harvester, 7.24 MB
Mon 10 Apr 2017

Kiran Dass from Unity Books revies 'Universal Harvester' by John Darnielle.