Podcasts about book critic

Claire Mabey talks about Megan Dunn's The Mermaid Chronicles, The Nevermoor books and previews a new documentary about Dame Fiona Kidman.

Pip Adams looks at three books about comedy and satire and how it works. The books are Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture-and the Magic That Makes It Work by Jesse David Fox; That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them by Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx; and Turncoat by Tihema Baker.

Today Catherine reviews three books, The Trees by Percival Everett, The Secret Hours by Mick Herron and Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon.

Today Dominic Hoey talks to Jesse about Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, a 2023 dystopian novel depicting the struggles of the Stack Family.

Today Catherine Ross talks to Jesse about books for young readers with the theme 'dystopian'. The books she talks about are: For ages 11+ years The Last Wild, (number 1 in a trilogy) by Piers Torday For ages 12+ years Swarm by Jennifer D. Lyle #murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil For ages 13/14+ Legend By Marie Lu The 1,000 Floor by Katharine McGee Reboot by Amy Tintera

Today Claire talks to Mark about At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley, The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing and Tarot by Jake Arthur.

Today Anna talks to Jesse about The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation by Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman.

Today Pip talks to Jesse about the books she's loved over time. She reviews, Marrow & Other Stories by Sloane Hong, Panthers and the Museum of Fire by Jen Craig and Mrs S. by K. Patrick.

Today Catherine talks to Jesse about YA books with the theme historical fiction. The books she's covering are: For ages 10+ King of Shadows by Susan Cooper For ages 11+ One Shot by Tanya Landman For ages 13+ Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgewick All the Broke Places by John Boyne The Imaginary Lies of James Poneke For ages 14+ Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

Today Claire talks to Jesse about two very different memoirs, First Things by Harry Ricketts and Splinters by Leslie Jamison. She also talks about Jane Arthur's children's novel Brown Bird.

Today Catherine speaks to Jesse about Brown Bird by Jane Arthur, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray and Accidental Magic: Book 1 of the Myrtlewood Mysteries by Iris Beaglehole.

Today Dominic talks to Jesse about The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

Today Catherine has the theme for young people books of Verse Novels. For ages 10+ Worse Things by Sally Murphy For ages 11/12+ Alias Ann: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood Starfish by Lisa Fipps The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling For Ages 12+ What About Will by Ellen Hopkins

This week Pip reviews cook books. She talks to Jesse about Anything's Pastable by Dan Pashman, East Meera Sodha by Meera Sodha and Good vibes : eat well with feel-good flavours by Alby Hailes.

Today Claire talks to Jesse about The Unsettled by Richard Shaw, Otherhood, a forthcoming anthology and Ash by Louise Wallace.

Today Anna talks to Jesse about The Prism and teh the Rose and the Late Poems by Schaeffer Lemalu. She also mentions a book she's just started reading, The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa.

Today Catherine talks to Jesse about Take Two by Danielle Hawkins, Dietvale by Sydney Hunter and Queen, King, Ace by Olivia Hayfield.

Dominic Hoey talks to Jesse about Acute Misfortune by Erik Jensen.

Today Pip looks at suspense fiction. She talks to Jesse about The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith and The Night She Fell by Eileen Merriman.

Today Mt Roskill Grammar school library manager Catherine Ross talks to Jesse not just about her book recommendations but also shares her thoughts on the declining literacy rates in Aotearoa.

Today Claire talks to Jesse about three very different books, The Grimmelings by Rachael King, Plastic by Stacey Teague and The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns.

Today our book reviewer Anna Rankin talks to Jesse about Vincent Bevin's book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.

Carlos Lozada is a columnist for The New York Times, and before that, the longtime nonfiction book critic for The Washington Post.  In 2019, Lozada won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism for a series of pieces that judges described as “trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.” Well, he's now collected nearly a decade of such reviews in what he calls “The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians,” which was released this week.  “If the art of politics can be to subtract meaning from language to produce more and more words that say less and less,” he writes, “then it is my purpose as a journalist to try to find that meaning and put it back.” He reads a lot of books by politicians. As he likes to say, he reads all those books so that you don't have to.  But he's found a way to use those books to say something interesting about those same politicians.  So what does Carlos's close reading of the likes of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis and many others reveal about our politics in 2024? It turns out quite a lot. On this week's episode of Deep Dive, host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza sits down with Carlos in POLITICO's offices to find out more. Ryan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO. Carlos Lozada is an opinion columnist and co-host of the weekly “Matter of Opinion” podcast for The New York Times.  Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio.  Alex Keeney is a senior producer for POLITICO audio.

Today Mt Roskill Grammar Library Manager Catherine Ross is along to talk about great books for younger readers. Her theme this week is 'Challenging Topics.'

Today Dominic talks to Mark about a fascinating book written by Naomi Klein.

Today Pip talks to Jesse about author Thomasin Sleigh, who Pip is talking to for the Aotearoa New Zealand Arts Festival.

Today Catherine talks to Jesse about Sam Low's cookbook, Modern Chinese, The Seven by Australian crime writer Chris Hammer and Clanlands in New Zealand by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish.

Today Claire talks to Jesse about The Cazalet Chronicles - a five-book series by Elizabeth Jane Howard, So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan and The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff.

This week Catherine's got some guest reviews in the mix for her books chat. One is from Jane Arthur at GOOD BOOKS in Te Aro, who's picked Audition by Pip Adam to review and the other is from Louise Ward at Wardini books in Hawkes Bay, she's reviewing The Observologist.

Today Mt Roskill Grammar Library Manager Catherine Ross has a great list of summer reads for younger people. Today she reviews: For ages 6-10 years: Whetu Toa and the Magician by Steph Matuku For ages 8-12 years, Conrad Cooper's Last Stand by Leonie Agnew For Ages 11/12+ Years Night Vision by Ella West For Ages 13/14+ Years, Better the Blood by Michael Bennett, How to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco Solid, How to Be a Bad Muslim (Non-Fiction) by Mohamed Hassan.

Today Dominic talks to Jesse about Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

Today Claire talks to Jesse about Spoiled Fruit, The Vintner's Luck and The Observologist by Giselle Clarkson, the artist who creates our critter of week t-shirt art.

Today Catherine reviews a mix of genres, one crime novel, one memoir and an historical novel. The books are, The Seven by Chris Hammer, A Foragers Life by Helen Lehndorf and The Seasonwife by Saige England.

Mt Roskill Grammar Library Manager Catherine Ross is our book critic this week with a great list of potential Christmas gifts for younger readers. The books she's talking about are as follows: For ages 10-12, The Polar Bear Explorer's Club by Alex Bell and The Brave by James Bird For ages 11/12+ years, Tins by Alex Shearer and A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll For ages 13+ years, The Dead Queen's Club by Hannah Capin and the Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot.

Elisabeth Easther joins Jesse to talk about the books she's been reading lately.

Today Dominic talks to Jesse about the latest work from David Grann, The Wager. This book, like his previous one, Killers of the Flower Moon, has also had the screen rights acquired by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Claire Maybe reviews Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh; Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder; Articulations by Henrietta Bollinger.

Writer and book critic Catherine Roberston intriduces us to three new books today: 'Emergency Weather' by Tim Jones, 'Secrets of the Land' by Kate Mahony and 'Tarquin the Honest: Ocian's Elven' by Gareth Ward.

Catherine Ross is the library manager at Mt Roskill Grammar School and shares her librarian picks! For Ages: 10/11+ Years A Game of Fox & Squirrels - By Jenn Reese, Published in 2020 For Ages 11/12+ Years Revolver - By Marcus Sedgwick, Published in 2009 The Memory Thief (New Zealand author, set in New Zealand) - By Leonie Agnew, Published in 2021 For Ages 12/13+ Years Boy in the Tower - By Polly Ho-Yen, Published in 2014 For Ages 13+ The Power (new(ish!) series available on Amazon Prime in NZ at the moment) - By Naomi Alderman, Published in 2017 For Ages 14+ The Eternal Return of Clara Hart - By Louise Finch, Published in 2022

This week Pip talks to Jesse about books that have altered the way she experiences the world. She reviews Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapokai, A Billion Years Before the End of the World and Owl.

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Martha Anne Toll, Author of Three Muses._____LINKShttps://www.marthaannetoll.com/BOOKThree Muses - Celebrating its one-year birthday!_____Martha Anne Toll's debut novel, THREE MUSES, was shortlisted for the Gotham Book Prize and won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction. THREE MUSES has received glowing tributes since it came out in September 2022. She writes fiction, essays, and book reviews, and reads anything that's not nailed down. Toll brings a long career in social justice to her work covering authors of color and women writers as a critic and author interviewer at NPR Books, the Washington Post, Pointe Magazine, The Millions, and elsewhere. She also publishes short fiction and essays in a wide variety of outlets. Toll is a member of the Board of Directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.Toll's second novel, DUET FOR ONE, will be out in early 2025._____An ex-evangelical boomer, a middle-aged gay artist, and a frazzled stay-at-home mom walk into a bar, share a table, and go deep about some of life's big questions.Join Frank, Ernie, and Erin as they share stories of love, sex, grief, religion and so much more. This is “Love in Common.”Visit LoveInCommon.org to Subscribe on your favorite Podcast platform. Support the show_____In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of Fall In Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy. Learn more at https://www.lovechildrenplanet.comFollow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.comhttps://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaefferhttps://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_arthttps://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_arthttps://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer PodcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-conversation-with-frank-schaeffer/id1570357787NEW: Love In Common Podcast with Frank Schaeffer, Ernie Gregg, and Erin BagwellApple Podcasts: ...

Today Dominic Hoey talks to Jesse about Night Boat to Tangiers by Kevin Barry, a book which as longlisted for the prestigious 2019 Booker Prize.

EPISODE 1702: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Bethanne Patrick , the LATimes book critic, about eight non-fiction books she recommends for the Fall. Bethanne Patrick maintains a storied place in the publishing industry as a critic and as @TheBookMaven on Twitter, where she created the popular #FridayReads and regularly comments on books and literary ideas to over 200,000 followers. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles Times as well as in The Washington Post, NPR Books, and Literary Hub. She sits on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and has served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. She is the host of the Missing Pages podcast. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today Catherine talks to Susie about Did I Ever Tell You This, by Sam Neill. The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken and The Deck by NZ author Fiona Farrell.

Today Anna talks to Jesse about Jared Davidson's book, Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand.

Today Anna talks to Jesse about Jared Davidson's book, Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand.

If you keep up with academic chatter in English literature, there's a debate going around about the versatility of English degrees, and of the fairly insular nature of literary criticism that comes out of academia. A piece in the New Yorker earlier this year, titled The End of the English Major, prompted me to do some thinking about the world of literature itself and the people in it. I wanted to speak to someone who has been immersed in the literary world for years, and has done a great deal of thinking about trends in contemporary literature.  Christian Lorentzen is a freelance literary critic whose work appears in several publications including Harpers, New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review and The London Review of Books. In addition to writing book reviews, he's published extensively about the state of the industry. From pieces about taste-making in popular culture, to covering underground art and dramatic movements in New York City, it's easy to see that Christian he cares deeply for the project of literary criticism.  We started off talking about a journalistic assignment Christian had last year. He covered the merger trial between the two publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House. His piece titled “At Random” dissected the true motivations behind these companies as arguments were made for and against merging. The Harpers piece also offered a broad view on corporate motivations behind the publication of both popular and literary fiction.  After speaking about the trial, Christian and I launched into a discussion of American literature of the past 50 years or so. Using writers such as Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon as benchmarks, we attempted to understand the dialectical nature of trends in art and criticism, and create a healthy literary discourse that is often unseen outside of the written word.  In a way, this conversation was a work of literary criticism in the audio form, and Christian simultaneously offered a bird's eye view, and a heavily specific read of where his field is going.  Christian's MUCKRACK & ⁠Substack⁠ (On the merger trial) "The Vying Animal" (On Philip Roth) "Like Rain on Your Wedding Day" (On literary style and American Politics) "Like This or Die" (On contemporary tastemaking) BOOKFORUM Profile Authors Mentioned Philip Roth Don DeLillo Thomas Pynchon W.G. Sebald Elizabeth Hardwick Ryan Ruby Recommendations Dead Babies - Martin Amis The Names - Don DeLillo High And Low & Stray Dog - Akira Kurosawa

Today Mt Roskill Grammar library manager, Catherine Ross, talks to Jesse about books for youngsters to read with the theme of 'conflict stories. She's reviewing the following: For 10/11+ War Stories, commissioned and edited by Michael Morpurgo and Stay where you are and then leave by John Boyne. For 12+ As Long s As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh. For 13+ This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke For 13/15+ Girl At War by Sara Novic and A Year of Ravens by Vicky Alvear-Schecter, Ruth Downie, Stephanie Dray, E.Knight, S.J.A. Turney and Russell Whitfield.

Today Pip talks to Jesse about author Isabel Waidner and their work including a number of podcasts as well as books.

Today Dominic talks to Jesse about Ill Will by Dan Chaon.