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Ukraine's European allies express outrage at Russia's missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy which left 34 civilians dead. We hear from two of the survivors - a mother and her 13-year-old son. Also in the programme: Sudan's civil war forces another mass displacement of people; Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez remembers his Peruvian friend Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin America's literary greats; and the story of skill and resilience that led Rory McIlroy to sporting immortality.(IMAGE: Ukrainian rescuers at the site of a rocket strike in downtown Sumy, Ukraine, which killed at least 32 people including two children, and injured 84 people including 10 children,13 April 2025 / CREDIT: Photo by UKRAINE STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Conversamos con Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Juan Cruz y Santiago Roncagliolo sobre la figura de uno de los escritores más influyentes de la literatura, Mario Vargas Llosa, que ha muerto este domingo a los 89 años. Opinión y análisis: Antón Losada, Ignasi Guardans y Estefanía Molina. 

Conversamos con Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Juan Cruz y Santiago Roncagliolo sobre la figura de uno de los escritores más influyentes de la literatura, Mario Vargas Llosa, que ha muerto este domingo a los 89 años. Opinión y análisis: Antón Losada, Ignasi Guardans y Estefanía Molina. 

Em memória do Pedro Sobral Livros mencionados: As Benevolentes, Jonathan Littell; Maniac, Benjamín Labatut; Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer; Despedidas Impossíveis, Han Kang; A Relíquia, Eça de Queirós; O Último Avô, Afonso Reis Cabral; Junto ao Mar, Abdulrazak Gurnah; A Tradução do Mundo, Juan Gabriel Vasquez; A Guerra dos Tronos, George R. R. Martin; A Idade Frágil, Donatella di Pietratonio; Um Detalhe Menor, Adania Shibli; O Palácio de Gelo, Tarjei Vesaas. Sigam-nos no instagram: @leiturasembadanas Edição de som: Tale House

Antes de ser escritora, e durante, e depois, a Paula Gicovate é uma leitora entusiasta. E trouxe esse entusiasmo para esta óptima conversa que... valeu. O que esta autora brasileira publicada em Portugal partilhou: As leituras escolhidas: Ioga, Emmanuel Carrere; A Boa Sorte, Rosa Montero; Poeta Chileno, Alejandro Zambra; A Solitária, Eliana Alves Cruz; Morreste-me, José Luis Peixoto. Outras referências: Nora Ephron: Amor é fogo (“Heartburn”); Não Gosto do Meu Pescoço; A louca da casa, Rosa Montero; Somos o esquecimento que seremos, Héctor Abad Faciolince; O barulho das coisas ao cair, Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Giovana Madalosso: Suite Tóquio; Tudo pode ser roubado. Dolly Alderton; O livro publicado em Portugal: Notas sobre a Impermanência. Recomendei: Dolly Alderton: Tudo o que sei sobre o amor; Bom partido; “Querida Dolly, sobre o amor, a vida e a amizade.” Quarto de despejo, Diário de uma favelada, Carolina Maria de Jesus; Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo, Ailton Krenak; O que ofereci: O filho de mil homens, Valter Hugo Mãe. Os livros aqui: www.wook.pt

'El corazón de las tinieblas' de Joseph Conrad (Alfaguara) ya está en las estanterías de la Biblioteca de Hoy por Hoy. La novela la ha donado su traductor, el escritor colombiano Juan Gabriel Vasquez que además ha prologado esta última edición y reconocer haber leído la novela del autor británico , de origen polaco, más de 15 veces. Esta entrada se corresponde con la celebración en 2024 del centenario de la muerte de Joseph Conrad. Es el particular homenaje que le hacemos en Hoy por Hoy.  Pero Juan Gabriel Vasquez no solo nos ha traído a Conrad, también nos ha donado 'Robinson Crusoe' de Daniel Defoe (Alianza)  y 'Memorias de Adriano' de Marguerite Yourcenar (EDHASA) . Y como no traía ninguna de sus maravillosas novelas, Antonio Martínez Asensio ha querido dejar en los anaqueles de la Biblioteca de Hoy por Hoy una obra de Juan Gabriel Vasquez, la premio Alfaguara 2011 'El ruido de las cosas al caer' . Asensio también ha sumado además  cuatro títulos del nuevo Premio Cervantes Álvaro Pombo: 'Relatos sobre la falta de sustancia y otros relatos" en Cátedra y  y en  Anagrama tres más    'El metro de platino iridiado' , 'Donde las mujeres' y  'El exclaustrado'. La biblioteca de hoy iba mucho relecturas y ha salido uno de los libros con más lecturas de la historia "Cien años de soledad" de Gabriel García Márquez (Random House). Entre las novedades, Pepe Rubio eligió esta semanas dos colecciones 'Todo Azcona' (Pepitas de Calabaza) , que reúne toda la obra literaria del escritor y guionista riojano Rafael Azcona, y  'Todo Manolito' de Elvira Lindo (Seix Barral) , un estuche con todos los libros del gran personaje literario infantil y juvenil español de Carabanchel.  La última entrada en la blblioteca fue el libro protagonista del programa 'Un libro, una hora' de Antonio Martínez Asensio que es 'Lady Mcbeth de Mtsensk ' de Nikolai Leskov (Nórdica) . Y los oyentes apartaron a nuestra colección otro libro de Joseph Conrad "El espejo del mar" (Reino de Redonda) , con traducción de Javier Marías, y 'El niño que perdió la guerra' de Julia Navarro (Plaza y Janés) . 

On this very special January night, editor extraordinaire John Freeman was joined by three of his star contributors, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Deborah Landau to bid farewell to his literary journal.Buy Freeman's Conclusions: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/freemans-conclusions*Jakuta Alikavazovic (b.1979) is a French writer of Bosnian and Montenegrin origins. Her first novel, Corps Volatils (2008) won the Goncourt Prize for Best First Novel and her second and third novels, Le Londres-Luxor (2010) and La Blonde et Le Bunker (2012) won prizes in France and Italy. Her most recent novel, Night as it Falls (L'Avancee de la Nuit), was published by Faber in 2020. Her essay Comme un Ciel en Nous (Like a Sky in Us) won the Prix Medicis Essai 2021 and her collected newspaper columns Faites Un Voeu (Make a Wish) were published in 2022. She is working on a new novel to be delivered in 2023.Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of 8 works of fiction, including the award-winning The Sound of Things Falling, The Shape of the Ruins and Retrospective. His work is published in 30 languages.Deborah Landau is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Skeletons. Her other books include Soft Targets (winner of The Believer Book Award), The Uses of the Body, and The Last Usable Hour, all Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press, as well as Orchidelirium, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. In 2016 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a professor at New York University, where she directs the Creative Writing ProgramJohn Freeman is the founder of the literary annual Freeman's and the author and editor of a dozen books, including Wind, Trees, Dictionary of the Undoing, Tales of Two Planets, The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, and, with Tracy K. Smith, There's a Revolution Outside, My Love. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Orion, and been translated into over twenty languages. The former editor of Granta, he lives in New York City, where he is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf and hosts the monthly California Book Club -- a free online discussion of a new classic in Golden State literature -- for Alta magazine.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-englandListen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mathias Enard's latest novel, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild takes us to the marshlands of South West France in a Rabelaisian celebration of life, love and death. Juan Gabriel Vasquez writes of him ‘Every novel by Mathias Enard reminds me of the reasons why I read fiction. He is ambitious, erudite, full of life, and a wonderful stylist to boot. He is one of the great novelists of our time.' He reads from his book and talks about it with Chris Power. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introducción a la Novela “El ruido de las cosas al caer “ del escritor Juan Gabriel Vasquez

This week on the KPL podcast, we wanted to share a captivating read that has left us in awe. If you're looking for a thought-provoking journey through history and the power of memory, we highly recommend "Retrospective" by the brilliant Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Listen to learn more. 

A fun chat with Juan Gabriel Vasquez all about his new novel Retrospective, the amazing life of Sergio Cabrera, the art of poetry reciting, and his favorite celebrity graves.  Plus – Dave finds out why he shouldn't be racing his students. ITUNES – SPOTIFY – STITCHER HOW TO SUPPORT THE SHOW! For all your shopping … Continue reading The Best Celebrity Graves With Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Join BOOKSTORM as we dive down deep with author Juan Gabriel Vasquez into his epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions. The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war.  Topics: Political upheaval, extreme ideologies and the power of the every-day citizen. Is film and all art used for propaganda or as a tool for shedding the light on devastating impacts of political turmoil? the importance and relevance of parent/child relationships. How do we break away from parental respect long enough to find our own truths? Is any person immune to war and uprising, whether they agree to partake or not? Join this important discussion!

“Novels can open a space in which opposing ideas are valid at the same time. In which reality is considered in a complex way.” What defines a novel? Can the genre deal in both fiction and fact? It may seem contradictory, but the ability to play with facts in a novel may actually bring the truth behind them into focus more clearly. Juan Gabriel Vasquez is widely heralded as one of the world's greatest living novelists. In his new book Retrospective, he charts the barely fictionalised and extraordinary life of the Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera. In this episode Juan tells us about Cabrera's series of incredible adventures, and he explains why he chose the format of a novel to portray the life of a real person. In this episode, you will learn: How novels can be a powerful way of portraying facts in a new light. Why you should use the novels you write as a form of rebellion against the status quo. When to leave yourself out of the story, to open space for your readers to make up their own minds about the events that unfold. Find out more about Juan here. Your host is inkjockey founder Mark Heywood. Behind The Spine is an inkjockey production, and the audio accompaniment to The Writing Salon. Sign up to the newsletter here. You can view the full transcript here. Connect with the show: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/behindthespinepodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BehindTheSpine Twitter: https://twitter.com/BehindTheSpine Website: www.behindthespine.co.uk

Le dernier roman de Juan Gabriel Vasquez retrace la vie extraordinaire du réalisateur colombien Sergio Cabrera. Une histoire intime qui se mêle au grands mouvements collectifs du XXè siècle entre la Chine maoïste, la France de Mai-68 et la Colombie révolutionnaire. Une rétrospective est publiée aux éditions du Seuil. Le nouveau roman de l'écrivain Juan Gabriel Vasquez est une fresque historique et politique. Mais, c'est aussi une histoire intime et familiale. Un roman qui raconte le destin de l'un des plus grands cinéastes colombiens, Sergio Cabrera. Un enfant du XXè siècle et en même temps un enfant de ses parents, exilés républicains qui ont fui le franquisme jusqu'en Amérique latine. Son histoire est celle d'un idéal transmis par des parents - artistes de théâtre engagés et maoïstes convaincus - qui l'emmèneront apprendre la révolution dans le Pékin de la Révolution culturelle avec sa sœur Marianella. Il en deviendra un zélé garde rouge, avant de retourner dans sa Colombie natale, et d'entrer en clandestinité dans la guérilla marxiste EPL. Une histoire couleur rouge sang, entre espoirs, illusions et déceptions, une histoire individuelle mais qui se mêle aux grands mouvements collectifs de la seconde moitié du XXè siècle, de Cuba à la France de Mai-68, en passant par la Chine et la Colombie. Une rétrospective, le dernier roman de Juan Gabriel Vasquez, traduit de l'espagnol par Isabelle Gugnon, est paru aux éditions du Seuil. Rediffusion de l'émission du mercredi 7 septembre.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez answers audience questions about The Sound of Things Falling. Set in Colombia, the novel examines the personal and private impact of the drug wars that ravaged the country during the 1970s, 80s and 90s. It's the story of a strange friendship between two men, Antonio and Ricardo, told through Antonio's eyes. He sets out to investigate his friend's mysterious life, after Ricardo is murdered. It's a novel about memory and storytelling, and about the lasting impact of living in a country ruled by violence and criminality. Our next guest on Bookclub is A J Pearce answering your questions about her debut Dear Mrs Bird. To take part email bookclub@bbc.co.uk

Curtis Sittenfeld answers listener questions about American Wife, a novel which follows Alice Lindgren's path from school librarian to First Lady, and is based on the life of former First Lady Laura Bush. Our next recording is at Broadcasting House in London on 13th October 2022. Juan Gabriel Vasquez will talking about his novel, The Sound Of Things Falling. To take part and ask a question, email bookclub@bbc.co.uk

Le dernier roman de Juan Gabriel Vasquez retrace la vie extraordinaire du réalisateur colombien Sergio Cabrera. Une histoire intime qui se mêle au grands mouvements collectifs du XXe siècle entre la Chine maoïste, la France de Mai-68 et la Colombie révolutionnaire. Une rétrospective est publié aux éditions du Seuil. Le nouveau roman de l'écrivain Juan Gabriel Vasquez est une fresque historique et politique. Mais c'est aussi une histoire intime et familiale. Un roman qui raconte le destin de l'un des plus grands cinéastes colombiens, Sergio Cabrera. Un enfant du XXe siècle et en même temps un enfant de ses parents, exilés républicains qui ont fui le franquisme jusqu'en Amérique latine. Son histoire est celle d'un idéal transmis par des parents - artistes de théâtre engagés et maoïstes convaincus - qui l'emmèneront apprendre la révolution dans le Pékin de la Révolution culturelle avec sa sœur Marianella. Il en deviendra un zélé garde rouge, avant de retourner dans sa Colombie natale, et d'entrer en clandestinité dans la guérilla marxiste EPL. Une histoire couleur rouge sang, entre espoirs, illusions et déceptions, une histoire individuelle mais qui se mêle aux grands mouvements collectifs de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, de Cuba à la France de Mai-68, en passant par la Chine et la Colombie. Une rétrospective, le dernier roman de Juan Gabriel Vasquez traduit de l'espagnol par Isabelle Gugnon est paru aux éditions du Seuil.

Bookclub travels to Edinburgh where Scotland's Makar Kathleen Jamie answers readers questions about her Selected Poems, and her writing life. Many poems here celebrate the natural world; Kathleen Jamie writes about animals and plants with a forensic and empathetic eye, often focussing on unloved and unsung creatures like daisies, spiders and frogs. In this collection there are also poems about the struggles of motherhood, and memories of her Scottish childhood - her friends, her family, her school days. This programme was recorded in front of an audience at Greenside Parish Church in Edinburgh . The next Bookclub recordings are with Curtis Sittenfeld (14/09/22) answering questions about American Wife in a virtual recording, and Juan Gabriel Vasquez (13/10/22) on The Sound of Things Falling , at an in-person event. Contact bookclub@bbc.co.uk to take part in either recording.

Llega la segunda temporada de Brussels Calling, con Cuando la Historia llama a la puerta, donde analizamos el actual momento europeo y los debates que marcarán 2022 en la UE y conversamos con Pol Morillas, director del CIDOB, sobre la crisis abierta en Ucrania y cómo esta desnuda nuestras debilidades en materia de política exterior y nos empuja a la búsqueda de autonomía estratégica. Recomendaciones: 1.-Liberal illusions caused the Ukraine crisis, de Stephen M. Walt en Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/19/ukraine-russia-nato-crisis-liberal-illusions/ 2.- Demografía: la nueva división, de Ivan Krastev en Le Grand Continent https://legrandcontinent.eu/es/2022/01/17/democracia-demografia-y-la-division-este-oeste-en-europa/ 3.- Miss Marx de Susanna Nicchiarelli https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film907343.html 4.- Volver la vista atrás de Juan Gabriel Vasquez https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-volver-la-vista-atras/9788420455600/12135121 Canción final: Nacho Vegas - El don de la ternura

On today's show we talk to Liam Carson, director of the Irish language literary festival IMRAM about this year's wide-ranging and adventurous hybrid programme, which starts today. And we talk to Alannah Hopkin about her honest and heartbreaking literary memoir of the lives of two Irish writers,  A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins, published by New Island Books. Alannah's Toaster Challenge choice is Songs for the Flames, stories by International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner Juan Gabriel Vasquez.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry' from The Hare's Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.Artwork by Freya SirrTo subscribe to Books for Breakfast go to your podcast provider of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google etc) and search for the podcast then hit subscribe or follow, or simply click the appropriate button above. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/books4breakfast)

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Estamos comenzando un nuevo año y la lista de libros para leer, en mi caso y en el de muchas otras personas, la encabeza la nueva novela de Juan Gabriel Vásquez: Volver la vista atrás. La crítica ha sido extraordinaria y los comentarios de quienes la han leído son un coro de elogios: la catalogan como una verdadera obra maestra de la literatura. En este episodio hablaremos de su nuevo libro, pero también exploraremos las dinámicas y los matices del proceso creativo y las rutinas de trabajo de un escritor y de como la pandemia alteró, para bien o para mal, estas dinámicas. También conversaremos sobre la madurez que un escritor va conquistando con cada palabra, cada página y cada obra nueva. Invitaré a Juan Gabriel a volver la vista atrás para recordar sus primeros pasos como escritor, para indagar sobre como este viaje lleno de experiencias fascinantes, ha no sólo definido su destino y su vida, sino como su mirada a esas vivencias y a momentos claves de la historia han sido el génesis de una obra literaria que ha tocado e influenciado la vida de miles de personas.

Os novos livros de Tatiana Salem Levy e Juan Gabriel Vasquez são os destaques desta semana (e um livro que desmonta mitos sobre a preguiça). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amanda and Jenn discuss middle-grade read-alouds, atmospheric novels, snarky narrators, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Özge Samanci (rec'd by Jan) Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen (rec'd by Sibyl) Anthony Horowitz's the Susan Ryeland series (first book: Magpie Murders) and the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries (first book: The Word is Murder) (rec'd by Ann) Questions 1. My [niece] is 23 and just informed my sister, brother-in-law, and the family that [she] is transgender. (So she is now my niece). She is starting the process of taking hormones and the like. My sister was shocked and did not see it coming. She is very liberal and is coming around to the idea. I was hoping for book recommendations that would help us (especially my sister) understand what my niece has felt like being in the wrong body. In a quick search I found books involving young kids. I was hoping for books centered more on coming out as trans as a 20-something. I'm thinking maybe a biography or non-fiction. Also my whole family loves fantasy so if there's a book in that genre maybe we could read it together. -Klista 2. Love the show!   I'm looking for recommendations to read aloud to my 7 1/2 year old boy/girl twins that I will enjoy too.   We love well-written, funny middle grade books – preferably with animal characters.   They are still sensitive readers – we avoid books with any violence and try to avoid orphaned children or those with not great parents.   We're not scared of long books or intricate language.   Books we've loved (and read over and over) include: The True Blue Scouts of Sugarman Swamp  The Very Very Far North & it's sequel Winnie the Pooh Collected Stories Books we've liked a lot:  Flora & Ulysses  Ruby Lu Brave & True Gooseberry Park Books that I liked but they didn't: Wild Robot Books they love but I'm not as into:  Humphrey series Mrs Piggle Wiggle & Missy Piggle Wiggle We've read most books by Roald Dahl & most age appropriate ones by Kate DiCamillo. They are still too nervous to start Harry Potter. Thanks! -Marisa 3. Hi Jenn and Amanda! I'm finally coming back to Get Booked now that I can read again! (baby girl took all my free time hihi) In the last couple of months, I realised that I love atmospheric books, even if the plot is weak or nonexistent. Some other books I loved are Erin Morgenstern books (both!), The Invisible Life of Addie Larue and Piranesi.  Do you have other recommendations like it? If it's mixed with greek mythology it's even better. Thanks a lot! PS: love from Canada. -Emilie 4. I'd love recommendations for books set in or about Bogota, Colombia. Preferably, something like Chanel Cleeton's books about Cuba that help to understand the history and current impacts or nonfiction about the history. Any genre is fine! -Tracey 5. Two of my favorite books/series I read this year have been “A Deadly Education” by Naomi Novik and “The Murderbot Diaries” by Martha Wells. On the surface they might seem kind of different, but they both had such a great narrative voice, with the right amount of sarcasm/snark/humor, and a completely lovable main character, and they left me feeling warm and fuzzy inside. Also, my favorite genres are Fantasy and Sci Fi, so these were perfect. I'm so sad I have to wait until more comes out from these authors. Please tell me what I can read while I'm waiting! Thank you! -Lauren 6. I recently read Lost Roses and seriously loved A Gentleman in Moscow before that.   I've also just marathoned The Last Csars on Netflix — and I haven't had my fill!   Can you recommend some historical fiction set in late 19th, early 20th century Russia that will help me get my next Russian nobility fix?  Thank you! -Emily 7. Hello there – Trigger Warning: So this is a tough one since it deals with a sensitive topic – suicide. I'm looking for a book (fiction or non-fiction I suppose, YA or Adult) that deals with how to cope when a friend/family member attempts suicide BUT does not succeed/commit. I find that most books about suicide are dealing with the aftermath of someone's death, but what happens if they didn't die? No one ever seems to talk about that. A recommendation for this would be very helpful, as this past year has been rough and I'd like someone else's perspective of coping with this kind of situation. Sorry this one is a bit of a downer, but important given the need for mental health awareness. Thank you. -Sam Books Discussed Fairest by Meredith Talusan (tw: racism) Sorted by Jackson Bird Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Where The Mountain Meets The Moon by Grace Lin Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, transl. by Anne McLean Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (tw: rape & other violence towards women, harm to children including death, panic attacks & PTSD) Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O'Keefe Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/  Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (tw: suicide attempts) Please Like Me S2, particularly Episode 7 Post: https://bookriot.com/6-novels-featuring-mental-illness-world-suicide-prevention-day/ Borderline by Mishell Baker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Brujas of Brooklyn on their healing practices; flamenco singer Miguel Poveda on 30yrs as artist; the Guelagetza familiar a project to reunite Mexican families; Alfaguara Prize winner, writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Afro-American musician Otura Mun

Juan Gabriel Vásquez's most recent novel is The Shape of the Ruins . When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets.

Renowned Colombian writer, Juan Gabriel Vasquez & his urban portrait of Bogota. Afro Dominican twins, Brujas of Brooklyn & their healing practices. John Jay College Immigrant Student Success Center on dreamers and undocumented students & the 2020 Census

Jenny divulges her top reads of 2019 and shares the top reads of sixteen other readers. All of us focus on books we read in 2019; they may or may not have been published in 2019. That's how regular readers work! If you listen past that section, there will also be some discussion of the Best of the Decade in reads and reading experiences.Thanks to all of you who participate, interact, and listen to the podcast! You have made this a marvelous year and decade.  Best wishes in the new year. The next episode will be all about reading goals, so feel free to share your 2020 reading goals with me and I might mention them.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 176: Best of 2019 with Jenny and Menagerie.Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify  Books Mentioned: Life and Fate by Vasily GrossmanCastle of Water by Dane KuckelbridgeLent by Jo WaltonFrankissstein by Jeanette WintersonAgainst Memoir by Michelle TeaBrute: Poems by Emily SkajaThe Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. RollinsHalal if You Hear Me edited by Safia Elhillo and Fatimah AsgharCan You Forgive Her? by Anthony TrolloppeThe Old Wives' Tale by Arnold BennettThe Way to the Sea by Caroline CramptonThe Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells Foundation by Isaac AsimovTu by Patricia GraceThe Last Act of Love by Cathy RentzenbrinkAll Among the Barley by Melissa HarrisonEast West Street by Philippe SandsThe Great Believers by Rebekah MakkaiLost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliThe Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel VasquezBirdie by Tracey LindbergThey Will Drown in Their Mother's Tears by Johannes AnyuruThe Museum of Modern Love by Heather RoseCantoras by Caroline de RobertisThe Deeper the Water, the Uglier the Fish by Katya ApekinaGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Very Marrow of Our Bones by Christine HigdonThe Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro ArikawaMetro 2035 by Dmitry GlukhovskyIn the Distance by Hernan DiazMortality by Christopher HitchensTrain Dreams by Denis JohnsonConversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Normal People by Sally RooneyGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukNobber by Oisin FaganWomen Talking by Miriam ToewsWhen Chickenheads Come Home To Roost by Joan MorganOur Women on the Ground edited by Zahra HankirThe Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan StradalSefira and Other Betrayals by John LanganStrange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi KawakamiThe Book of Night Women by Marlon JamesInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFired Up by Andrew JohnstonThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanWhite Fragility by Robin DiAngeloThe Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona EltahawyThis Tilting World by Colette Bellous Other Mentions:Jenny's Full Best of 2019 ListJenny's Best of the Decade List Safia Elhillo and Fatimah Asghar reading at The StrandShedunnit Podcast Related Episodes:Episode 142 - Borders and Bails with Shawn MooneyEpisode 150 - Rife with Storytelling with Sara Episode 154 - Is If If with PaulaEpisode 157 - Joint Readalong of Gone with the Wind with Book Cougars Episode 159 - Reading Doorways with LindyEpisode 160 - Reading Plays with Elizabeth Episode 163 - Fainting Goats with Lauren Episode 166 - On Brand with Karen Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie Episode 173 - Expecting a Lot from a Book with Sarah Tittle  Episode 174 - Cozy Holiday Reads and TBR Explode 4 Episode 175 - Reading on Impulse with Marion Hill Stalk me online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Se cumple un año desde la última vez que Juan Gabriel Vasquez estuvo en Paredro. Ahora, está nominado al premio Man Booker International, uno de los galardones más importantes. La nominación es por la traducción a inglés de su novela La forma de las ruinas, la cual, Vasquez dice que es la culminación de todo lo que ha escrito hasta ahora, y que premia su obsesión con el archivo personal y político. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paredro-podcasts/support

Se cumple un año desde la última vez que Juan Gabriel Vasquez estuvo en Paredro. Ahora, está nominado al premio Man Booker International, uno de los galardones más importantes. La nominación es por la traducción a inglés de su novela La forma de las ruinas, la cual, Vasquez dice que es la culminación de todo lo que ha escrito hasta ahora, y que premia su obsesión con el archivo personal y político.

În episodul 8 al Podcastului Narativ vorbim cu cel mai tradus scriitor columbian, Juan Gabriel Vasquez.

In deze aflevering van de 'Pompidou'-podcast krijgt Nicky Aerts dirigent Jan Caeyers en dichter Bernard Dewulf over de vloer. En Christophe Vekeman neemt u mee naar de Ardennen, met het nieuwe boek van de Colombiaanse schrijver Juan Gabriel Vasquez.

The Shape of the Ruins is Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s highly anticipated, deeply personal masterpiece that is being heralded as the most ambitious novel of his career. For the first time Vásquez puts himself at the center of the story—the narrator is a novelist also named Juan Gabriel Vásquez—one that unspools a tangled mystery of political conspiracy, brutal assassinations, and dangerous secrets lost to memory.

Mission encre noire Tome 21 Chapitre 264. Animitas de Nicholas Dawson paru en 2017 aux éditions La mèche. Animitas: édicules, petites constructions isolées dans l'espace public. Une famille chilienne fuit le régime et pose ses valises sur la rue Ontario à Montréal en 1990. Dans leur bagages se trouvent des silences, des coutumes, des larmes, une langue qui parfois menace de les engloutir. Et pourtant, sous le regard de ses parents, de son frère et de sa soeur, l'enfant s'invente une nouvelle vie, à Hochelaga et en banlieue, à Brossard. Parfois baroque tantôt flamboyant, plus tard lourd et oppressant, Animitas est traversé de la rumeur du déracinement, cette charge qui colore les esprits d'une génération à l'autre. Nicholas Dawson ouvre une fenêtre sur l'éclatement que peut provoquer la roche de l'exil au fond de la bottine de cette famille de réfugiés. De Nine Inch Nails, de Madonna ou de Bowie, de valparaiso au désert d'Atacama, Nicholas Dawson vient nous jaser des vérités folles de l'adolescence qui traversent son très réussi roman/animitas. Il est notre invité ce soir à Mission encre noire. Extrait:«L'enfant se souvient des maintes fois où son père parlait des autres là-bas, de ceux qui attendront éternellement leur retour. Il l'entend souvent dire qu'ils peuvent bien attendre, qu'il ne remettra jamais les pieds là, qu'ils devront venir le chercher de force pour le replacer dans ce pays maudit, tout comme, de force, il l'a quitté. L'enfant se dit alors qu'ils sont venus le chercher, qu'il est parti. Il croit que l'éclatement inévitable de sa famille se produit déjà par un départ de son père vers le Chili. Il ne s'étonne pas de son calme. Il parvient à cette conclusion sans drame, sans inquiétude. Au contraire, il est apaisé, il se sent libre. Le parc se remplit peu à peu de ses créatures, et l'enfant est le seul à sourire.» Une toile large comme le monde de Aude Seigne paru en 2017 aux éditions Zoé. L'internet existe vraiment ! Vous le saviez j'imagine. Ce vulgaire câble noir jeté comme un sac de noeuds autour du globe, C'est lui ! Anonyme et silencieux, il assure l'essentiel de nos échanges électroniques, autant dire l'avenir de la planète. Cependant, une petite communauté d'internautes dispersée autour du globe planifie un sabotage généralisé du Worl Wide Web. Ce récit choral et éclaté n'est pas un roman d'anticipation. Aude Seigne dissèque froidement le cadavre encore chaud de l'internet, le bras armé, polluant, aliénant et énergivore du progrès. Ce roman génial nous garde bien les pieds sur terre, le style est concis et le ton convaincant. Voici un portrait glaçant d'une génération qui est née avec l'internet, un compagnon privilégié du réveil au couché. Extrait:«Samuel est le seul à connaître l'existence de FLIN et de ses cousins, qui, dans la région de Baotou, sont peu nombreux, étroits, fragiles, ankylosés dans le sol aride. Il l'a constaté dès son arrivée, soupirant devant la lenteur du wifi de l'hôtel, tâchant de compenser par la réflexion. Comment se fait-il que la région soit si peu connectée alors que la plupart des matériaux qui constituent internet - le germanium des fibres optiques, l'indium des écrans tactiles - viennent d'ici ? Si l'adolescent à ses côtés lui posait la question, Samuel lui parlerait probablement des terres rares. Comme il le fait dans les colloques où il croise cette Birgit qu'il trouve sympathique, il préciserait qu'elles ne sont pas si rares, mais qu'elles sont difficiles à localiser en grande quantité, puis à isoler chimiquement, et que leur processus d'extraction est très polluant. Il ne sait pas ce que représente Baotou pour ce garçon trop bien habillé pour y habiter, mais il conclurait, quand même, sur la spécificité phénoménale de la région: ici, les terres rares sont presque toutes présentes et couvrent la moitié des besoins de la planète.» Le corps des ruines de Juan Gabriel Vasquez paru en 2017 aux éditions du Seuil. On ne s'attend pas vraiment à ce qu'un morceau de calotte crânienne datant de 1914 et un morceau de vertèbre de 1948 viennent perturber la marche inexorable de l'Histoire. Juan Gabriel Vasquez se met en scène, un de ses amis, le docteur Benavides, vient appuyer son propos avec ces preuves. Ces restes humains appartiennent à des personnalités célèbres du monde politique colombiens, à des hommes assassinés. L'histoire de la Colombie est un fatras de mensonges, Carlos Carballo en est intimement convaincu. Il se présente, un brin farfelu et miné par les nombreuses théorie du complot qu'il rumine depuis toujours. Est-ce que l'écrivain et essayiste Juan Gabriel Vasquez va se laisser tenter de dévoiler la vérité au monde entier ? De J-F Kennedy à la princesse Diana, de Rafael Uribe Uribe à Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, l'auteur creuse le socle de la mémoire enfoui sous la croûte apparente de l'Histoire officielle. Le corps des ruines est un thriller politique aux mailles étroites. C'est aussi un objet fascinant ou tous les coups sont permis. Extrait:«Non, on n'échappe pas à la violence colombienne, j'aurais dû le savoir. Personne n'y arrive, d'autant moins les gens de ma génération, qui ont vu le jour en même temps que le trafic de drogue et sont devenus des adultes quand le pays sombrait dans le sang répandu par la guerre que Pablo Escobar lui avait déclarée. On peut quitter le pays, comme je l'ai fait en 1996, et croire qu'on laisse ces réalités derrière soi, mais on se trompe, tout le monde se trompe. Je serai toujours surpris par le maître que la vie a choisi de placer sur ma route pour m'enseigner cette leçon qu'il aurait pu me dispenser de nombreuses autres manières.»

Mission encre noire Tome 21 Chapitre 264. Animitas de Nicholas Dawson paru en 2017 aux éditions La mèche. Animitas: édicules, petites constructions isolées dans l'espace public. Une famille chilienne fuit le régime et pose ses valises sur la rue Ontario à Montréal en 1990. Dans leur bagages se trouvent des silences, des coutumes, des larmes, une langue qui parfois menace de les engloutir. Et pourtant, sous le regard de ses parents, de son frère et de sa soeur, l'enfant s'invente une nouvelle vie, à Hochelaga et en banlieue, à Brossard. Parfois baroque tantôt flamboyant, plus tard lourd et oppressant, Animitas est traversé de la rumeur du déracinement, cette charge qui colore les esprits d'une génération à l'autre. Nicholas Dawson ouvre une fenêtre sur l'éclatement que peut provoquer la roche de l'exil au fond de la bottine de cette famille de réfugiés. De Nine Inch Nails, de Madonna ou de Bowie, de valparaiso au désert d'Atacama, Nicholas Dawson vient nous jaser des vérités folles de l'adolescence qui traversent son très réussi roman/animitas. Il est notre invité ce soir à Mission encre noire. Extrait:«L'enfant se souvient des maintes fois où son père parlait des autres là-bas, de ceux qui attendront éternellement leur retour. Il l'entend souvent dire qu'ils peuvent bien attendre, qu'il ne remettra jamais les pieds là, qu'ils devront venir le chercher de force pour le replacer dans ce pays maudit, tout comme, de force, il l'a quitté. L'enfant se dit alors qu'ils sont venus le chercher, qu'il est parti. Il croit que l'éclatement inévitable de sa famille se produit déjà par un départ de son père vers le Chili. Il ne s'étonne pas de son calme. Il parvient à cette conclusion sans drame, sans inquiétude. Au contraire, il est apaisé, il se sent libre. Le parc se remplit peu à peu de ses créatures, et l'enfant est le seul à sourire.» Une toile large comme le monde de Aude Seigne paru en 2017 aux éditions Zoé. L'internet existe vraiment ! Vous le saviez j'imagine. Ce vulgaire câble noir jeté comme un sac de noeuds autour du globe, C'est lui ! Anonyme et silencieux, il assure l'essentiel de nos échanges électroniques, autant dire l'avenir de la planète. Cependant, une petite communauté d'internautes dispersée autour du globe planifie un sabotage généralisé du Worl Wide Web. Ce récit choral et éclaté n'est pas un roman d'anticipation. Aude Seigne dissèque froidement le cadavre encore chaud de l'internet, le bras armé, polluant, aliénant et énergivore du progrès. Ce roman génial nous garde bien les pieds sur terre, le style est concis et le ton convaincant. Voici un portrait glaçant d'une génération qui est née avec l'internet, un compagnon privilégié du réveil au couché. Extrait:«Samuel est le seul à connaître l'existence de FLIN et de ses cousins, qui, dans la région de Baotou, sont peu nombreux, étroits, fragiles, ankylosés dans le sol aride. Il l'a constaté dès son arrivée, soupirant devant la lenteur du wifi de l'hôtel, tâchant de compenser par la réflexion. Comment se fait-il que la région soit si peu connectée alors que la plupart des matériaux qui constituent internet - le germanium des fibres optiques, l'indium des écrans tactiles - viennent d'ici ? Si l'adolescent à ses côtés lui posait la question, Samuel lui parlerait probablement des terres rares. Comme il le fait dans les colloques où il croise cette Birgit qu'il trouve sympathique, il préciserait qu'elles ne sont pas si rares, mais qu'elles sont difficiles à localiser en grande quantité, puis à isoler chimiquement, et que leur processus d'extraction est très polluant. Il ne sait pas ce que représente Baotou pour ce garçon trop bien habillé pour y habiter, mais il conclurait, quand même, sur la spécificité phénoménale de la région: ici, les terres rares sont presque toutes présentes et couvrent la moitié des besoins de la planète.» Le corps des ruines de Juan Gabriel Vasquez paru en 2017 aux éditions du Seuil. On ne s'attend pas vraiment à ce qu'un morceau de calotte crânienne datant de 1914 et un morceau de vertèbre de 1948 viennent perturber la marche inexorable de l'Histoire. Juan Gabriel Vasquez se met en scène, un de ses amis, le docteur Benavides, vient appuyer son propos avec ces preuves. Ces restes humains appartiennent à des personnalités célèbres du monde politique colombiens, à des hommes assassinés. L'histoire de la Colombie est un fatras de mensonges, Carlos Carballo en est intimement convaincu. Il se présente, un brin farfelu et miné par les nombreuses théorie du complot qu'il rumine depuis toujours. Est-ce que l'écrivain et essayiste Juan Gabriel Vasquez va se laisser tenter de dévoiler la vérité au monde entier ? De J-F Kennedy à la princesse Diana, de Rafael Uribe Uribe à Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, l'auteur creuse le socle de la mémoire enfoui sous la croûte apparente de l'Histoire officielle. Le corps des ruines est un thriller politique aux mailles étroites. C'est aussi un objet fascinant ou tous les coups sont permis. Extrait:«Non, on n'échappe pas à la violence colombienne, j'aurais dû le savoir. Personne n'y arrive, d'autant moins les gens de ma génération, qui ont vu le jour en même temps que le trafic de drogue et sont devenus des adultes quand le pays sombrait dans le sang répandu par la guerre que Pablo Escobar lui avait déclarée. On peut quitter le pays, comme je l'ai fait en 1996, et croire qu'on laisse ces réalités derrière soi, mais on se trompe, tout le monde se trompe. Je serai toujours surpris par le maître que la vie a choisi de placer sur ma route pour m'enseigner cette leçon qu'il aurait pu me dispenser de nombreuses autres manières.»

Reputations (Riverhead Books) Winner of several of the world’s most prestigious fiction prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Spain’s Alfaguara Novel Prize, France’s Roger Caillois Award, and Italy’s Premio von Rezzori, and published in twenty-six countries and counting, Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most celebrated writers alive today.With the support of Anne McLean’s brilliant translation, Vásquez’s arresting prose is on full display as he examines the construction of public identity, the burden of memory, and the intersection of the personal and the political, all within the bounds of this taut, electrifying page-turner, Reputations.  Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges' decisions, destroying politicians' careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage. At sixty-five, after four decades of a brilliant career, he's at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he's paid an unexpected visit from a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to re-evaluate his life and work, questioning his position in the world.  In Reputations, Juan Gabriel Vasquez examines the weight of the past, how a public persona intersects with private histories, and the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel, Vasquez plumbs universal experiences to create a masterful story, one that reverberates long after you turn the final page. Praise for Reputations "Vasquez, who likely came to your attention with 2010's scathing The Informers and certainly made your reading list with The Sound of Things Falling, the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner, returns with a reverberant new work about a life suddenly challenged."--Library Journal  "The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page. This terrific novel draws on Colombia's tragic history and cycles of violence to tell the story of a troubled man trying to come to grips with the distant forces and events that have shaped his life."--Khaled Hosseini  "A fine and frightening study of how the past preys upon the present..."--John Banville  "I felt myself under the spell of a masterful writer. Juan Gabriel Vasquez has many gifts--intelligence, wit, energy, a deep vein of feeling--but he uses them so naturally that soon enough one forgets one's amazement at his talents, and then the strange, beautiful sorcery of his tale takes hold." --Nicole Krauss  "Juan Gabriel Vasquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature."--Mario Vargas Llosa  "For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and is in search of a new Colombian novelist... a thrilling new discovery."--Colm Toibin Juan Gabriel Vasquez was born in Bogota in 1973. His books include the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the award-winning The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana. Vasquez's books have been published in seventeen languages world-wide, and he is the recipient of the Prix Roger Caillois in France and the Alfaguara Prize in Spain. After sixteen years in France, Belgium, and Spain, he now lives in Bogota.

Set in Spain in the late 70s, Gabrielle's debut novel, THE SLEEPING WORLD, represents something deeply personal to her. She tells James about writing through grief, how the novel grew from a short story inspired by a song, as well as world building, dirt, and 'the spaghetti mind.' Plus Janet Geddis, the owner of Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA, shares exciting news and she and James geek out over upcoming fall titles.     James and Gabrielle Discuss:  Keith Waldrop  LADY AND THE TRAMP Jamaica Kincaid  "Runaway", THE NATIONAL SOY CUBA dir by Mikhail Kalatozov  PEPI, LUCI, BOM AND OTHER GIRLS LIKE MOM dir. by Pedro Almodovar  Alberto Garcia-Alix (photographer) NADA by Carmen Laforet  Elena Ferrante  RAY OF THE STAR by Laird Hunt  Toni Morrison  Audre Lorde  Alice Walker  WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell    James and Janet Discuss: Deirdre Sugiuchi Al Dixon  WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED by Clare Beams (10/25)* THE MORTIFICATIONS by Derek Palacio (10/4)# HOW TO SHAKE THE OTHER MAN by Derek Palacio  Nouvella Books COMMONWEALTH by Ann Patchett (9/13)* LITTLE NOTHING by Marisa Silver (9/13)# THE REACTIVES by Masande Ntshanga* MERCURY by Margot Livesey (9/27)# BOWIE by Simon Critchley (9/13)# REPUTATIONS by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (9/20)# THE SOUND OF THINGS FALLING by Juan Gabriel Vasquez A FAMILY IS A FAMILY IS A FAMILY written by Sara O'Leary, ill. by Qin Leng*  THE SLEEPING WORLD by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes*#  *Janet Recommends  #James Recommends - http://tkpod.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK / tkwithjs@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/ / Instagram: tkwithjs MUSIC by: Braainzz (https://soundcloud.com/braainzz) & Sleep Studies (http://sleepstudiesband.com/)     

We talking to acclaimed Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez about his dark and compelling novel The Sound of Things Falling. Vasquez explores the recent tortured history of his home country through a complex interweaving of personal stories and confronts the disastrous consequences of the war between the drugs cartels and government forces which played out so violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies above. After witnessing a friend’s murder, Antonio discovers the many ways in which his own and other lives have been deformed by his country’s recent brutal past. His journey leads him back to the 1960s and a world on the brink of change; a time before drug-trafficking trapped a whole generation in a living nightmare. (Photo: Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Credit: Hermance Triay)

Mariella Frostrup talks to Juan Gabriel Vasquez about his novel Reputations

Prize winning Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Argentinian playwright, journalist and leading crime writer Claudia Pineiro join Philip Dodd for a programme exploring fiction and fact in Latin America. There's also journalist Alex Cuadros who chronicles his years covering the rise and fall of Brazil's plutocrats. And a consideration of Eric Hobsbawm's Viva La Revolucion from Dr Oscar Guardiola-Rivera from Birkbeck College in London. Claudia Pineiro's most recent thriller is called Betty Boo, translated by Miranda France. Vásquez won the 2014 International Dublin Literary Award, for The Sound of Things Falling and his most recent book to be translated by Anne McLean is Reputations. Brazillionaires is by Alex Cuadros 40 years of writing about Latin America is brought together posthumously in Eric Hobsbawm's Viva La Revolucion Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of What If Latin America Ruled the World? Producer: Ruth Watts

Yeah, so, if y’all hadn’t noticed, we’ve lagged a bit in getting new episodes posted this year. We blame life. To make up for being assholes, here’s ANOTHER bonus episode to keep you occupied until our next real episode posts. Which will be soon. Like, it’s been recorded, we’re just editing, and it should be ready in, like, a week. Get psyched. You can also stream the episode on iTunes and Stitcher. Find us on Tumblr at drunkbooksellers.tumblr.com, and follow us on Twitter at @drunkbookseller for updates, book recs, and general bookish shenanigans. Check out our show notes, below. Epigraph Bitches in Bookshops Our theme music, Bitches in Bookshops, comes to us with permission from Annabelle Quezada. It’s the best.   Introduction   [0:30] In Which Emma’s Excited About an Event That You Can’t Attend ‘Cause It Already Happened and We Discuss the Awesomeness of Tactile Covers Emma’s drinking Schlafly Oatmeal Stout Kim’s drinking Sierra Nevada’s Hop Hunter IPA Emma’s reading: See You in the Morning by Mairead Case   Also mentioned: Slab by Selah Saterstrom, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life by Jessa Crispin (of Bookslut fame) Kim’s reading: Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen   Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson Listening to: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock Chapter I   [7:07] In Which Your Noble Hosts Look Back at Their Favorite Books of 2015 Emma’s Picks: Uprooted by Naomi Novik The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (also mentioned: Lumberjanes) Witches of America by Alex Mar The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua Never Judge a Lady By Her Cover by Sarah MacLean Kim’s Picks: Supermutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki (also mentioned: Skim & This One Summer) Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch Women by Chloe Caldwell Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Chapter II   [27:00] In Which Your Hosts Look Forward to 2016 Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters by Charles Wheelan (pubs 4 April 2016) The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (also mentioned: White is For Witching and Boy, Snow, Bird) Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss (pubs 5 April 2016) The Crimson Skew by SE Grove (pubs 12 July 2016) The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente (also mentioned: Radiance, Six Gun Snow White) Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (pubs 25 October 2016) (also mentioned: Hyperbole and a Half, as well as Let’s Pretend this Never Happened and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson) The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!) by Anna Pulley, illustrated by Kelsey Beyer (pubs 19 April 2016)   Chapter III   [40:53] In Which Booksellers from Across The Land Recommend the Books They’re Looking Forward to in 2016 Ariana from Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT recommends The Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (pubs 20 September 2016) Genevieve from the Boulder Book Store in Boulder, CO recommends Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (pubs 22 March 2016) Sam from Village Books in Bellingham, WA recommends Into the Sun by Deni Ellis Bechard (pubs 6 September 2016) Carson from Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT recommends My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (pubs 17 May 2016) Stacy from Book Bar in Denver, CO recommends After the Crash by Michel Bussi (published 5 January 2016) Epilogue   [43:33] In Which There Are Exciting Things On the Horizon Have a favorite bookseller you’d like us to chat with on the show? Shoot us an email at drunkbooksellers@gmail.com with their name, store, and contact info so that we can reach out to them! Follow us on Twitter @drunkbookseller. Emma tweets @thebibliot and writes nerdy bookish things for Book Riot. Kim occasionally tweets at @finaleofseem. Share the love by rating/reviewing us on iTunes. And don’t forget to subscribe from your podcatcher of choice. We’ll be back soon (in a week or so?) with a for-realsies episode. Until then, read ALL the books.    

Sep. 5, 2015. Lynn Freed, Geoffrey Kloske and Kevin Larimer discuss how book publishing has changed, and may change, in the age of digitization at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Lynn Freed is the author of six novels, a collection of stories and a collection of essays. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Narrative Magazine, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review and other publications. She has received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two PEN/O. Henry Awards, various fellowships, grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation. Her works include the memoir "Reading, Writing and Leaving Home: Life on the Page," as well as the novels "The Servants' Quarters" and "The Mirror." Speaker Biography: Geoffrey Kloske is the vice president and publisher of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. He has published many books, incluiding Paula Hawkins's recent "The Girl on the Train," the New York Times best-selling novel "The Interestings" by Meg Wolitzer, Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," James McBride's National Book Award-winning "The Good Lord Bird" and the IMPAC award-winning novel by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, "The Sound of Things Falling." In 2005 Kloske wrote the award-winning children's book "Once Upon a Time, the End," illustrated by Barry Blitt. He has also previously worked as an editor at Simon & Schuster and Little, Brown and Co. Speaker Biography: Kevin Larimer is the editor in chief of Poets & Writers, where he edits Poets & Writers Magazine; oversees the organization's website, pw.org; directs Poets & Writers Live; and co-hosts Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and received his MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was the poetry editor of the Iowa Review. Larimer has presented lectures on publishing at the Academy of American Poets' annual Poets Forum, The Writer's Hotel Master Class and the International Poetry Conference in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, and he he has served on a number of panels on publishing at events such as the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, the Slice Literary Writer's Conference and Poets Forum. His poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, Verse and a dozen other literary magazines. Larimer has also written book reviews for American Letters & Commentary, American Book Review, Chelsea and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6927

(February 11, 2013) Juan Gabriel Vasquez shares his experiences as a Latin American author and his personal writing process. In addition, he talks about the landscape of Latin American literature and how he thinks his work interacts with other prominent authors.