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Looking to fit even more books into your life? We think audiobooks are a great solution. This week we chat about reading in different formats and settings and hen and how we both read audiobooks. We also share some of our favorite audio experiences, books, and authors!Summer Book ClubThe book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 has been chosen! It was pretty darn close!The episode discussing The Story of Lucy Gault will be Episode 86, coming out on August 8.ShownotesBooks* The Children of Dynmouth, by William Trevor* Fools of Fortune, by William Trevor* Felicia's Journey, by William Trevor* The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* The Wind that Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews* Brickmasters, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, by Anne de Marcken* Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett* Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett* Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett* The Patron Saint of Liars, by Ann Patchett* State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett* A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh* The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett* Run, by Ann Patchett* Taft, by Ann Patchett* The Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling* The Trees, by Percival Everett* A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Ulysses, by James Joyce* Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle* The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot* Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders* The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann* The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann* The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson * Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson* The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert* The Dead Zone, by Stephen King* Pet Sematary, by Stephen King* The Shining, by Stephen King* The Stand, by Stephen King* Fairy Tale, by Stephen King* You Like It Darker, by Stephen King* Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson* Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson* Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson* Lockwood & Co., by Jonathan Stroud* The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman* The Round House, by Louise Erdrich* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* Fourth of July Creek, by Smith Henderson* The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan* The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson* Foster, by Claire Keegan* Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie* Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie* Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent* Day, by Michael Cunningham* Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir* “My Purple-Scented Novel,” by Ian McEwan* “Axis,” by Alice Munro* George and Lizzie, by Nancy PearlLinks* The New Yorker Fiction Podcast* The Writer's Voice Podcast* Episode 1: Bucket List BooksThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

In Episode 83, Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) and I share our favorite books that missed last year’s Summer Reading Guides, books for people who have time to dig into something big in the summer, and our #1 picks for the four of the five categories featured in Sarah’s 2021 Summer Reading Guide. This post contains affiliate links (plus: here’s your Amazon Smile-specific affiliate link), through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Our Summer Reading Guides Sarah’s 2021 Summer Reading Guide Books That Missed Last Year’s Summer Reading Guides [4:12] Sarah Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [4:17] Catch & Kill by Ronan Farrow | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [7:45] This is My America by Kim Johnson | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [12:40] Susie Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [6:08] Sea Wife by Amity Gaige (My Review) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [9:52] A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost (My Review) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [14:33] Books For People Who Have More Time to Dig Into Something Big in Summer (i.e. “Teacher Books”) [17:36] Sarah Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (My Review) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [18:08] Natchez Burning by Greg Isles (My Review) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [24:29] The Ensembleby Aja Gabel (My Review) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [32:08] Susie Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes| Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [22:56] Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [28:37] Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [35:12] Our #1 Picks for Each Summer Reading Guide Category [37:56] Something Light / Fun Sarah: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (June 1) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [38:29] Susie: Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau (Susie’s Review) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [40:14] Something Intense / Fast-Paced Sarah: When the Stars Go Darkby Paula McLain (April 13) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookhshop.org [42:41] Susie: The Pushby Ashley Audrain (My Review) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookhshop.org [43:49] Something with a Bit More Substance Sarah: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton | Buy from Amazon| Buy from Bookhshop.org [45:07] Susie: Landslide by Susan Conley | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookhshop.org [47:30] Something Different Sarah: Smacked by Eilene Zimmerman | Buy from Amazon| Buy from Bookhshop.org [49:31] Susie: When I Ran Away by Ilona Bannister | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookhshop.org [51:27] Other Books Mentioned One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston | Buy from Amazon [5:48]  She Saidby Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [7:56]  A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K. Barnett | Buy from Amazon [14:00] 11/22/63 by Stephen King | Buy from Amazon [17:38] The Three by Sarah Lotz (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [20:05]  The Wanderers by Meg Howrey (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [21:29] The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [22:53]  The Bone Tree by Greg Isles (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [24:49]  Mississippi Blood by Greg Isles | Buy from Amazon [24:49]  The Deepest South of All by Richard Grant | Buy from Amazon [27:21]  The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [34:16]  Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [46:06] Other Links Spring 2021 Book Preview Podcast Podcast Episode 75: Ashley Audrain (Author of The Push) Podcast Episode 68: Eilene Zimmerman (Author of Smacked) About Susie Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Susie has loved reading for as long as she can remember. Some of her fondest childhood memories involve long afternoons at the library and then reading late into the night. More than ten years ago, she began journaling about the books I read and turned that passion into writing about books. Her first forays were as a guest reviewer on a friend’s blog, but she soon realized she wanted to be reviewing and talking about books on a blog of my own. From there, Novel Visits was born. That was in 2016 and, though the learning curve was steep, she loves being a part of the book community. Novel Visits focuses on new novel reviews (print and audio), previews of upcoming releases, and musings on all things bookish.

As Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith prove, not all novelists are loners. The two decided to collaborate while partaking of a few substances at Tim O'Brien's wedding back in the early 2000s. Fifteen years, one screenplay, and two books later their first novel, Make Them Cry, debuted in September.This literary joyride through a Mexican drug cartel has a rich cast of characters—a compromised DEA agent, a bookish sicario, a cartel fugitive, crooked cops, CIA agents, former military operatives and more, each with fascinating backstories and motivations.Smith Henderson (author of Fourth of July Creek) and Jon Marc Smith join Marrie Stone to talk about how the book came to be, the extensive research it required, the intricacies of how their collaboration works, why they had to throw the first draft of the novel away and begin again, the importance of routine, and so much more. They also share that mind-bending story of Tim O'Brien's wedding.Download audio.  (Record date: October 6, 2020)

Smith Henderson is the author of Fourth of July Creek and lives in Montana. Jon Marc Smith lives in San Marcos, Texas, and teaches English at Texas State University. Together, they are co-authors and friends going back 20 years. Their new novel, MAKE THEM CRY, is on sale now! Smith and Jon Marc originally conceived the story for MAKE THEM CRY as a screenplay while on ecstasy at Tim O’Brien’s wedding, but thankfully found that it worked better as a novel, and their writing styles and research perfectly complement each other. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Them-Cry-Smith-Henderson-ebook/dp/B0831Q3862 https://twitter.com/relianteyeball

Synopsis: Author Steph Post discusses her thrilling Judah Cannon series, including LIGHTWOOD and WALK IN THE FIRE, as well as her forthcoming supernatural novel, MIRACULUM, what it means to write “grit lit”, being the “voice” of a demographic, breaking out of marketing boxes, and the exhaustion of writing a series. This episode of COVERED is sponsored by: FeedPress: Blog and podcast analytics starting at $4 a month, podcast hosting starting at just $8 a month. Use promo code COVERED to get 10% off your first year. Audible: Get a FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. Check out the Audible links below next to the titles discussed during the episode! Duration: 46:14 Present: Harry C. Marks, Steph Post The Guest Website Twitter A Tree Born Crooked by Steph Post, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Lightwood by Steph Post, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Walk In The Fire by Steph Post, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® Books Discussed The Hollow Ground: A Novel by Natalie S. Harnett | Barnes & Noble® | Audiobook | Audible.com Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson | Barnes & Noble® | Audiobook | Audible.com Gods of Howl Mountain: A Novel by Taylor Brown | Barnes & Noble® | Audiobook | Audible.com The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Barnes & Noble® | Audiobook | Audible.com Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan | Barnes & Noble® | Audiobook | Audible.com To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han | Barnes & Noble® | Audiobook | Audible.com The Fighter by Michael Farris Smith | Barnes & Noble® | Audiobook | Audible.com Daggerspell (Deverry Series #1) by Katharine Kerr | Barnes & Noble® | Audiobook | Audible.com Miscellaneous Grit Lit: An American Phenomenon Goes Global | CrimeReads Storyclock Notebook – Plot Devices Print Run Podcast The Manuscript Academy Podcast – Follow your host and the show on Twitter @HCMarks @COVERED_fm @HologramRadio for more podcasts to listen to! Subscribe to Covered! Get Covered on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, RadioPublic, or via RSS. SUBSCRIBE! Please take a moment to rate our show in iTunes or Apple Podcasts, even if it’s just a one star rating. It really does make a difference in helping us reach a wider audience. Download: Episode S4E10: Steph Post, WALK IN THE FIRE

We’ve got a special show for you this week: it’s the Wonder homage to fiction. With the Oregon Book Awards coming up on April 13, we spend the hour with the five finalists for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.The group is made up of three debut novelists, two poets, and one past winner of the fiction prize. We've talked with three of them before, and we brought the other two into the studio to round out the cohort.1:20 - Willy Vlautin is as skilled and prolific a polyglot as they come. His band Richmond Fontaine has released 10 studio albums; he’s penned four critically acclaimed novels including “Lean on Pete” which won both the Oregon Book Awards’ fiction prize and Reader’s Choice Award in 2011. Hollywood made a movie out of his first book, “The Motel Life.” In this conversation he tells us why he continues to write about hard-luck characters in "The Free" and what it is like to write bar songs for his new band, The Delines, who play Thursday, April 16 at Kelly’s Olympian in Portland.11:35 - Cari Luna started writing her novel “The Revolution of Everyday” as a Dear John Letter to New York City. She was born there and lived there on and off until 2007, when she just couldn’t afford to stay any longer. Then, after she moved to Portland and got some distance, the book became a love letter as well. It’s about a group of squatters in New York City’s Lower East Side in the ‘90s.20:11 - Smith Henderson's "Fourth of July Creek" was one of the biggest debuts last summer and made it onto best books lists everywhere from the “Washington Post” to “Entertainment Weekly.” It was so successful, in fact, that Henderson quit his job, moved to Los Angeles, and has three new novels in the works. In this conversation he talks with Dave Miller on "Think Out Loud."32:00 - Amy Schutzer began writing poetry as a college student. Since then, she’s published numerable poems, a chapbook, and now two novels. Her newest, “Spheres of Disturbance,” is the kind of book that had the Lambda Literary reviewer weeping openly for the beauty of it and the questions it raised.41:10 - Since we last talked with poet Lindsay Hill about his wildly ambitious debut novel, “Sea of Hooks,” the book won the Pen Center USA Fiction Award, was a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, and made a number of top 10 lists, from “New York” magazine to “Publishers Weekly” (in fact, “Publishers Weekly” named it the Most Underrated Book of 2013). He tells us about how the book took more than 20 years and five thousand pages to write.

  Smith Henderson has won a 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award for fiction and a Pushcart Prize. Ecco/Harper Collins recently published his debut novel, Fourth of July Creek, the story of a Montana social worker who faces a crumbling personal life while he's trying to help the young son of a religious survivalist living in the hills above his small town.

Fourth of July Creek (Ecco) Smith Henderson, author of one of the most anticipated debut novels of the season, discusses his work with novelist Brian McGreevy (Hemlock Grove). In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. Praise for Fourth of July Creek: “This book left me awestruck; a stunning debut which reads like the work of a writer at the height of his power…Fourth of July Creek is a masterful achievement and Smith Henderson is certain to end up a household name.”—Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Son “Fourth of July Creek knocked me flat. This gorgeous, full-bodied novel seems to contain all of America at what was, in retrospect, a pivotal moment in its history...Smith Henderson has delivered nothing less than a masterpiece of a novel."—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk “Fourth of July Creek cannot possibly be Smith Henderson's first book. Its scope is audacious, its range virtuosic, its gaze steady and true. A riveting story written in a seductive and relentlessly authentic rural American vernacular, this is the kind of novel I wish I'd written.”—Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn “Fourth of July Creek is an astonishing read. The writing is energetic and precise. Henderson has a mastery of scale that allows this particular place and these particular people to illuminate who we are as Americans...I could not recommend this book more highly.”—Kevin Powers, bestselling author of The Yellow Birds “Tremendously satisfying—think Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone...or Jimmy McNulty...set...in...another kind of violent American wilderness...[a] mesmerizing accomplishment. I cannot think of a finer first novel; it's hard, in fact, to think of a finer second, third, or fourth one, either.”—Antonya NelsonSmith Henderson was born and raised in western Montana. His family were in the timber industry, ranching, and other trades, but he was the first to go to college, earning a Classics degree. He worked with traumatized children for a few years, and briefly as prison guard. He took writing jobs where he could find them, until he was admitted to the MFA program at the University of Texas. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of journals and been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. In 2011 he was the Philip Roth Resident and Bucknell University and won the Emerging Writer Award in Fiction from the PEN Foundation.  Brian McGreevy is the author of Hemlock Grove, which was adapted into a Netflix series of the same name. He is also a founding partner of the production company El Jefe, with multiple film and television projects in development. A former James Michener Fellow in fiction at the University of Texas, he currently lives in Los Angeles. 

Hope you don't mind us crashing your summer reading list, but we've got two hot ones for you. Chelsea Cain, who's publishing a new novel, One Kick, in August, schools us on surviving summer thrillers. And we hear from the author of one of the summer's breakout titles, Smith Henderson. His novel, Fourth of July Creek takes on difficult aspects of anti-government obsession, and violence against children. Henderson, who now works at Wieden+Kennedy, talks about an earlier stint in child protective services, and how those experiences laid groundwork for the book.

Smith Henderson is the guest. His debut novel, Fourth of July Creek, is now available from Ecco. Ron Charles of The Washington Post calls it “The best book I’ve read so far this year...Henderson choreographs these parts so masterfully that the novel is never less than wholly engaging… All week I was looking for opportunities to slip back into these pages and follow the trials of this rural social worker.” And The New York Times says “First novels don’t come much more confidently written or fully imagined than this.” Monologue topics: travel, family travel, parental aspirations, travel hell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Smith Henderson discusses his new book FOURTH OF JULY CREEK (HarperCollins, May 27, 2014) with producer Erin Wicks from @HarperAudio_US. The episode also includes an excerpt featuring the voice of MacLeod Andrews from the audio edition. ABOUT THE BOOK After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. In this shattering and iconic American novel, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion, and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. Fourth of July Creek is an unforgettable, unflinching debut that marks the arrival of a major literary talent.