Podcast appearances and mentions of stewart o'nan

Amanda and Jenn discuss genre novels about older characters, read-alikes for Ted Lasso, and wanderlust in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Feedback Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (rec’d by Jeff) Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan (rec’d by Linda) Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage and Manners by Therese O’Neill and The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson (rec’d by Angie) Questions 1. Years ago I read the translation of the swedish book The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist. It’s one of those underrated books that deserves more love. It’s a scifi novel featuring an older woman who moves into a senior home that is more than what it seems. Residents get the life of luxury and all their needs and dreams met, but they are required to go through weekly blood and drug tests and many participate in questionable experiments. It’s a book about trust, good and evil, the elderly, and how far things might go in the future.  I would love to find more books featuring elderly folk, especially genre books (scifi, horror, thriller, suspense). I’ve read Fredrich Bachman, The Lido, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper – in other words (spoilers) charming, quaint books with happy, hopeful endings.  Can you recommend any books with a twist or uncertainty or a hint of something unexpected?  Thanks! -Katherine 2. Hello Amanda and Jenn, big fan! Thank you for keeping me entertained through lockdown. My brother and I both love reading and keep trying to recommend books for each other but we have very different tastes. Books we have read this year that we thought might fit the bill for us both are: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (he loved and I struggled through). We both enjoyed The Examined Life: How we lose and find ourselves by Stephen Grosz and Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl  He prefers books that challenge him, that are eye opening/life changing and he’ll enjoy it if it’s really long. He likes non-fiction memoirs about war and classics that have stood the test of time. I adore what he likes to call ‘pop’ fiction; Crime, Thriller, Horror, anything recently published, fast paced and relatively short. Can you suggest something that might work for us both? Thank you!  -Jenny 3. TIME _SENSITIVE: Hello, I am going to Northern Maine with my husband for a makeshift honeymoon since ours was canceled from covid in June and I am looking for recommendations for books to read on the ride up from Philadelphia.  I am open to anything except horror, sci-fi and mystery but something with National Park/nature feels would be nice. I would also request a Red Socks book for me (I know next to nothing on baseball but since we will be going to a game on the way to Maine and I would like to know something about the stadium or the team before going). Thank you so much and I can’t wait to hear what you can suggest.  -Carissa 4. I am looking for a book (nonfiction or fiction does not matter) that talks about relationships between semi-distant dads and daughters.  My dad left my mom for another woman (now my step mom) when I was 6, so honestly I was too young for it to be terribly traumatic. Now that I am grown up (I’m 27) we barely speak. My step brother came out as trans a few years ago and both my dad and step mom have responded terribly to it, which was the thing that made me really give up on having a relationship with my dad.  I am queer and my fiance is nonbinary, and when I have introduced my previous partners to him he just dismissed their pronouns and “didn’t get it.” He does not even know I’m engaged and I have not spoken to him in 2 years now. He recently reached out to me and wants to reconnect, but honestly I am at a point where I only want to put emotional energy into relationships that are fulfilling.  So, I am looking for something with an estranged relationship between father and daughter, has queer themes/queer mc, and there does not have to be a redemption arc or anything. In fact, I would like something where the daughter gets closure with deciding to not maintain a relationship with her father. Maybe 1 nonfiction and 1 fiction? Thank you! -Kenna (she/her) 5. I realized recently that I kind of have Harry Potter as my ultimate favorite thing in my head as a default because like for others it was the first series I read that really drew me in and made me love the characters, etc, and I haven’t felt like I’ve ever found that with another series.  I don’t exactly want a Harry Potter readalike because I know there are lots of those.  I really want a book, preferably a series, preferably not fantasy, that has those same elements that make HP so lovable. A small cast of really well-developed characters, a really immersive and well-thought-out story, universal themes, found family, all that. I just want an adult version of it that will draw me in that way.  Hopefully this isn’t some impossible ask.  Thanks and love the show!  -Maria 6. I’m looking for books with the same feel as Ted Lasso. I don’t necessarily care if it is an American abroad story. I’m more interested in optimism, vulnerability, and humor. I don’t think I’m looking for “cozy” or “feel good” reads.  If I had to describe it, I would say I want the heart and vulnerability of Ted Lasso.  Thanks! -Casey  7. A year into the pandemic and I am having a deep craving for books that help with my wanderlust. I’m looking for narrative non-fiction or travelogues to help transport me, but also integrate deeper understanding of a place’s history and culture. Here’s some that I recently read that I’m still having a book hangover from: 1. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey 2. Eat the Buddha:Life and Death in a Tibetan Town 3. Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover Americas New Melting-Pot Cuisine 4. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Here’s my good reads, thanks in advance!!!! -Mia   Books Discussed Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (cw: racial violence) Feeding the Monster by Seth Mnookin The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi (rec’d by Danika) Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #1) Dead in the Garden by Dalia Donovan Check, Please!: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu (with thanks to Smexy Books)  Window Seat by Aminatta Forna (comes out May 18) The Outrun by Amy Liptrot (tw: mental illness, suicidal ideation, sexual assault) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John’s under quarantine. Ed is now a full-time second-grade teacher. They discuss their respective escapes from their universities. All the restaurants are closed, so they don’t talk about that. John has been making electronic music; Ed has not softened his position on sports. John tries to persuade Ed to buy his kid Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Ed reluctantly agrees. Follow links to Songs to Wash Your Hands To, “The Little Car”, the new Ultimate Fakebook song, Buchla Synthesizers, Suzanne Ciani, Amber Sparks, Thom Gunn, William Maxwell, Stewart O’Nan, How to Rebuild a City, Night on the Galactic Railroad, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, and The Monster Project.

I’m Jim McKeown , welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and biographies. According to the Penguin notice, Stewart O’Nan is the author of eleven novels and two works of nonfiction. I first read his work in, Last Night at the Lobster, which became a national bestseller. He has won a number of awards, and Granta named him one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists. He lives with his family in Connecticut. Just finished Songs for the Missing. This novel is intense. The story carries the lives of a family through immense trauma, and the heartache rides with them to the end.

Zweimal hat uns Stewart O’Nan bereits die Pittsburgher Familie Maxwell vorgestellt. Jetzt ist er zu ihr zurückgekehrt, um ein Jahr lang dem 75-jährigen Familienvater Henry zu folgen. Ein konservativer Mann, gradlinig, erfolgreich, ein guter Ehemann, aber ein schlechter Vater. Das Porträt eines typischen Vertreters der Kriegsgeneration aus der weißen Mittelschicht.Rezension von Johannes Kaiser.Aus dem Amerikanischen von Thomas GunkelRowohlt Verlag HamburgISBN 978-3-498-00121-6480 Seiten24 Euro

Die Dramatik des Banalen darzustellen, ist eine Spezialität des Schriftstellers Stewart O’Nan. Was ihm schon mit seinem Bestseller „Emily, allein“ gelungen ist, setzt er nun mit „Henry, persönlich“ fort: Den unspektakulären Alltag eines Ehepaares im Ruhestand spektakulär auszuloten. Der Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/kultur/n99-stewart-onan-ueber-henry-persoenlich

Die Dramatik des Banalen darzustellen, ist eine Spezialität des Schriftstellers Stewart O’Nan. Was ihm schon mit seinem Bestseller „Emily, allein“ gelungen ist, setzt er nun mit „Henry, persönlich“ fort: Den unspektakulären Alltag eines Ehepaares im Ruhestand spektakulär auszuloten. Der Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/kultur/n99-stewart-onan-ueber-henry-persoenlich

In his 2002 novel Wish You Were Here Stewart O’Nan introduced readers to the Maxwells, as Emily Maxwell gathered together her extended family after the death of her husband Henry. O’Nan’s 2011 novel Emily, Alone, an “utterly captivating portrait of widowhood and old age” (NPR), followed Emily years later as she discovers her own hidden strength and independence. In his new novel HENRY, HIMSELF (Viking; Hardcover: On Sale: April 9, 2019), O’Nan returns once again to the Maxwell family, focusing on Emily’s husband. Told through poignant vignettes and written in O’Nan’s trademark beautifully sparse prose, HENRY, HIMSELF follows Henry Maxwell—an honorable, hardworking family man from the Greatest Generation—throughout his life as a soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, and churchgoer. The result is a warmhearted portrait of an American original that subtly, but unflinchingly, reckons with the responsibilities attached to being a privileged white male in the mid-to-late 20th century. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stewart O'Nan is the author of sixteen previous novels, including City of Secrets; West of Sunset; The Odds; Emily, Alone; Songs for the Missing; Wish You Were Here; A Prayer for the Dying; and Snow Angels. His novel Last Night at the Lobster was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was born, raised, and lives in Pittsburgh. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

Today’s author interview guest is Stewart O’Nan, author of Henry, Himself. A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new […]

Fitzgerald talk continues! But no, we aint reading Fitzgerald, just talking about them. Also: a game is played! 20:00 Booktalk TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

In this episode, we discuss West of Sunset, by Stewart O'Nan; Gentlemen, by The Afghan Whigs; and The Last Tycoon, by Elia Kazan.

The author of “Henry, Himself” once sought inspiration at Cedar Point and co-wrote a book about the Red Sox with Stephen King.

42 Minutes 303: Jonathan Evison - This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! 02.12.2018 In anticipation of Treefort Music Fest, the program reconnects with Jonathan Evison discussing his novel, Harriet Chance. He appears this year at Storyfort Friday and Saturday evening for three events. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, Reinvention, West Of Here, Anna Karenina, Partenership, Mrs Daisy, Memory, Linearity, Revelation, Marginalized, William Melvin Kelly, Zeitgeist, Me Too, Class, Commerce, Algonquin Books, Process, Stewart O'Nan, Willy Vlautin, The Record Exchange, Lidia Yuknavitch, Big Foot, Cave Dave, Mt St Helens. Treefortmusicfest.com

-Nana Nana Boo Boo - West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan - Literally Literary - With: Sean O'Brien, Joseph Bonier & Sean Fau-Burnitz

Stewart O'Nan discusses his new novel set in Jerusalem of 1945, City of Secrets.

Award Winning writer Stewart O'Nan on his newest novel and on the craft of writing

Book Talk Begins at 31:10 Recorded on March 9, 2016 Our Vest KAL/CAL is continuing until May 15, 2016.  Please see the Chatter thread for more information... Our 2 Knit Lit Chicks Swap is ongoing.  If you are participating, please come over to the Chatter Thread to make sure you are up to date! The winner of Spilly Jane Knits Mittens is announced at the end of this podcast. If anyone would like to donate a prize for the Northern California Knitting Retreat (NoCKRs!), please contact either Barb or Tracie.   KNITTING   Barb's finished projects:   Barb's Grandpa Cardigan by Joji Locatelli, using Cascade Cash Vero DK.  After some "sweater surgery" was performed, she loves it!   Mother Bear #70   3 Knitted Knockers   Barb's Silverthorne Hat, using Plymouth Yarn Galway Worsted in the Coral colorway (for charity)   Barb's Starshower Cowl, using Invictus Yarns Master of My Feet in the NoCKRs 2015 colorway.   Vanilla Socks using Fishknits Warm Heart 2-ply in the Cadillac colorway.  Barb finished her Never Not Knitting Mystery KAL shawl, the Four Seasons Shawl, using Verroco Vintage in the 5194 colorway.  Deep stash for this yarn...2010!   Tracie has finished: *Tracie's Yipes Strips Cowl, using Neighborhood Fiber Co. Studio Worsted.  She has enough yarn leftover to make another one! *2 Knitted Knockers, using Knitting Fever King Tut *Tracie's Fair Winds Beanie, using Alpenglow Skinny Singular Corrie in the Mermaid Tail color way. *Mother Bears #68 & #69 *Tracie's Blossom Tank by Lori Sternberg in Knitting Rose Blossom Sock in the Eye-Catching colorway. Tracie's Because I Can Bunny Rabbit by Jane Hickman, using Cascade Cherub Baby in the Baby Pick colorway.   Vanilla socks for Will, using Knit Picks Felici in the Baker Street colorway.   Tracie's Vintage Sebasco vest in Berroco Vintage in the Neptune colorway.   Barb is currently knitting:   The Poppy Poncho by Cathy Donnabella, usingMrs. Crosby Satchel in the Port Vintage colorway.   The Jenny Vest by Andra Knight-Bowman, using Knit Picks City Tweed in the Marsh colorway.   Vanilla Socks using a gradient set of Knitting Rose Blossom Sock   Schknit Happens Hat by Myra Wood, using  Gnomeacres Fancy Gnome in the Aurora Gnomealis colorway.   Tracie is currently knitting:   The Ecuador cardigan by Joji Locatelli, using Oasis Yarn Aussi Sock in the Sage colorway.   Rodeo Drive Poncho by Stacy Perry in Fonty BB Merino in Brun Scooby Doo The Longstreet shawl by Nancy Totten using Abstract Fibers Temptation in The Gorge colorway. BOOKS Barb and Tracie have both read Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan.  They both recommend this book!   They also both read Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez- Mitchell.  If you like the true crime genre, they heartily recommend this book also. Barb has finished: In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on anAmerican Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim.  She recommends this book.   Survivors (Stranded #3) by Jeff Probst and Chris Tebbit.  Barb strongly recommends this trilogy for ages 8 - adult...maybe get the audio to listen to on a family car trip?   Girl in the Dark by Marion Pauw.  Thumbs up!   Still Life by Louise Penny.  Recommend.   Tracie has finished:   Alice + Freda: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe.  Tracie recommends this book - interesting!   A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - Tracie loved it.   The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry.  Tracie was very "meh" about this book,   Barb is currently reading:   My Friend Dahmer by Derf Beckderf.  A graphic novel - very interesting so far.   The Mourning Hours by Paula Trieck DeBoard   The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, with the CraftLit Podcast   Lady Fortescue Steps Out by Marian Chesney   Tracie is currently reading:   Me before You by Jojo Mayes   A Small Indiscretion by Jan Ellison        

Stewart O’Nan‘s award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, Emily, Alone, and The Odds, which was hailed by The Boston Globe as a gorgeous fable, a stunning meditation and a hope-filled Valentine. O’Nan reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his bestselling novel West of […]

Stewart O'Nan is the guest. His new novel, West of Sunset, is available now from Viking. It is the official Februrary pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Maureen Corrigan, writing for The Washington Post, says “[The] grim yet undeniably fascinating last act of Fitzgerald’s life is the subject of Stewart O’Nan’s gorgeous new novel. . .West of Sunset is a pretty fine Hollywood novel, too, but it’s an even finer novel about a great writer’s determination to keep trying to do his best work.” And George Saunders says “O'Nan is an incredibly versatile and charming writer. This novel, which imagines F. Scott Fitzgerald's troubled time in Hollywood (with cameos by Dorothy Parker, Bogie, and Hemingway), takes up (like much of O'Nan's work) that essential conundrum of grace struggling with paucity. One brilliant American writer meditating on another--what's not to love?” Monologue topics: paranoia, pregnancy, fear, hovering, mail.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stewart O'Nan, author of WEST OF SUNSET sits down with Amy to talk about F. Scott Fitzgerald, classic hollywood and more. Read about the book here: http://bit.ly/1Lf4QOJ

What books sit on your shelf, waiting for you to finally pull them off and read them? For Nancy Pearl, it's Anthony Trollope. For Steve Scher, it's a number of natural history books. What's on your shelf? Let's follow up with Nancy's suggestion and listen to her interview with the writer Stewart O'Nan.You can find many interviews Nancy has conducted at the Seattle Channel, Book Lust. 

West of Sunset

"...we see him as a tragedian because is life is a tragedy..."

Übers.: Thomas Gunkel Rowohlt Verlag 2014 Preis 19.95 Euro

Salvatore Pane is the guest. His chapbook, #KanyeWestSavedFromDrowning, was published by NAP in October, and his debut novel, Last Call in the City of Bridges, is now available from Braddock Avenue Books. Stewart O'Nan raves “Like his post po-mo Facebook generation, Michael Bishop, the manic narrator of Last Call in the City of Bridges, has reached the end of his irresponsible youth. Stuck and unsure, he looks back at those eight-bit Nintendo years with tender nostalgia while trying to feel his way forward.  Like The Moviegoer, Salvatore Pane’s debut novel is a romantic ironist’s plea for authenticity in a fantastic age.  It’s telling–and hilarious–that his hero’s model for male adulthood isn’t William Holden but Super Mario.” And Tom Bissell says “Quite obviously, Salvatore Pane’s mind has been dunked in video games, social media, comic books, the WebNet, and everything else our august literary authorities believe promote illiteracy. I’d like to hand the authorities Pane’s novel–a funny, moving, melancholy, sad, and immensely literate book about what being young and confused feels like these days–and tell them, ‘See? Things are going to be fine!’” Monologue topics:  worldview, jackhammering, to-do lists, mental lethargy, flying dinosaurs, palm trees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unlike anyone else, O’Nan delivers a new book every year that speaks directly to the anxieties of our fearful times

Stewart O’Nan is the author of ten novels, including Last Night At The Lobster, Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, as well as the recent Songs For The Missing and the forthcoming Emily, Alone, a sequel to his novel Wish You Were Here. He has also written nonfiction, including the bestselling book with Stephen King on the Boston Red Sox, Faithful. Granta named him one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists in 1995, he’s a graduate of the Cornell MFA program in fiction writing, and is a visiting writer here this semester.O’Nan read from his work on February 17, 2011, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

"This is what I think is important."

Featuring Christopher Carduff, Benjamin Cheever, Edward Hirsch, Daniel Menaker and Stewart O'Nan. Recorded as part of Madison Square Park Conservancy's free series of summer readings by notable authors in historic Madison Square Park. The National Book Awards and some of Maxwell's most prominent friends and admirers celebrate his centenary year with a lively evening of discussion and reminiscence. www.nationalbook.org

Featuring Christopher Carduff, Benjamin Cheever, Edward Hirsch, Daniel Menaker and Stewart O'Nan. Recorded as part of Madison Square Park Conservancy's free series of summer readings by notable authors in historic Madison Square Park. The National Book Awards and some of Maxwell's most prominent friends and admirers celebrate his centenary year with a lively evening of discussion and reminiscence. www.nationalbook.org