Podcasts about Trust Exercise

In this episode, the Spine Crackers discuss Susan Choi's 2019 National Book Award winning novel of trauma, memory, and the nature of storytelling, Trust Exercise! Full episode available on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/spinecrackers

Susan Choi joins us on today's show! Susan is a 5-time published author. Her latest novel, Trust Exercise, won the National Book Award in 2019. Joining Susan is 8th-grader and co-host, Tafari, who learns the importance of pursuing what feels the most fun for us, even when that doesn't look like it can directly lead to a clear career path because true success comes from enjoying what we do for work. In this episode of Formative, Susan shares her joy for reading and what her creative process looks like when writing her novels.

“If my mother and my grandma were in this book, how would they be? And what kind of love can I show them as a writer…”  The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin brings readers to pre-Civil War New Orleans to meet a cast of strong, fierce women in a hope filled novel of freedom and liberation. Ruffin joins us to talk about the intricacies of writing about his hometown, cultural impacts on identity, building empathy through fiction and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.    This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                    New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.          Featured Books (Episode):  The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin  We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin  The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.  Ours by Phillip B. Williams  American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson  Lone Women by Victor LaValle  Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov  The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison  Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides   12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup  Trust Exercise by Susan Choi 

In this Monday episode of CiC. Marius brings up the topic of trust in the Danish government.And how a recent survey show that it has fallen amongst the public. We try to unravel why that is. And why Danes and non-Danes may see things differently. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 647, my conversation with author Susan Choi. She won the National Book Award in 2019 for her novel Trust Exercise. This episode first aired on June 10, 2020. Susan's first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Ander fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. ” She serves as a trustee of PEN America and teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. ‘ *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When the world was faced with Covid, remote work emerged as an appropriate solution to the need for social distancing. Its adoption as a permanent work model is now a topic that has the world divided. There are multiple reasons why team leaders don't approve with the idea of remote work and many of them have to do with their fear that teams will slack without that in-person proximity.In this episode of the Jake Dunlap Show, Melissa Romo, author of “Your Resource is Human: How empathetic leadership can help remote teams rise above” joins Jake in a discussion about the pros and cons of remote work, unspoken remote work emotions and the most common issues that leaders face when coordinating remote teams.A long-distance leadership aficionado, Melissa shares why, despite being a career remote worker herself, she feels that the best solution for companies right now is to customize work to the individual and follow the organized hybrid work model popularized by Nicholas Bloom.  Time stamps: (00:57) Meet Mellisa Romo, author of the best-seller “Your Resource is Human: How empathetic leadership can help remote teams rise above”,  and VP of Global Marketing at Sage;(02:47) Most common issues leaders face when interacting with their remote teams: trust, proximity bias & hybrid organized model; (11:00) Boredom, depression, paranoia, loneliness, and guilt- the 5 unspoken remote work emotions;(16:37) Emotional professionalism- how do companies deal with the pressure of people looking for a sense of purpose in their work;(21:54) Other leadership behaviors- accomplishing things as a team, communicating with optimism, and one on one conversations that combat loneliness and give employees a sense of belonging;(31:11) Tactical things that transform remote work into a positive experience (for the employer as well as for the employee). Quotes : “There's this persistent fear that when people are at home they're not productive or they're slacking off (...) The reality is (remote work) is more productive, and there is data behind this. (...) If someone is slacking off it becomes really evident, work just doesn't get delivered. Things slow down, you don't really need to see the person to know that they're slacking off.”“If you don't trust your people, why did you even hire them?”“We need to take the leader's location, and we need to look at how that leader is rating their people, where are those people located, and here is what I bet you'll see! Geographically, the further away that employee is from his leader's location, the worse their rating. (...) We just have these built-in biases that don't serve our interest as a company.”“Organised hybrid means to decide a day, or two, or three when everyone comes in, and by everyone I mean a group of people that have sort of obvious collaboration needs and you know that when you go on Tuesday, you're going to be in the office with people that have similar collaboration needs as you.”“If (remote workers) don't like that they're being asked to come in, I would ask them to think about the people who are new to the company, the people who just got hired and are trying to get a read on the culture and are trying to build a network in the company. (...) They can't come into the office alone and build a network alone. They need you to show up!”“You're not going to get anything from people when they're burned out. I look at the timestamp of emails from the people working for me and sometimes I'll see somebody send the first email at 5 am and the last email at 10 pm, and I go straight to that person and I say I don't want to see this again. And I'm very strict about that.” __________________________Get in contact with Melissa:Website- https://www.melissaromoauthor.com/TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@melissaromoauthorLinkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissatromo/Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/romoauthorInstagram- https://www.instagram.com/romowriter/ Melissa's book:  Your Resource Is Human: How Empathetic Leadership Can Help Remote Teams Rise Above  __________________________Mentions:Nicholas Bloom- Stanford Economics Professor, Speaker, and Consultant on Remote WorkLinkedin | Twitter __________________________Follow Jake:Website- https://www.jakedunlap.com/Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/jake_dunlap_/Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakedunlapTwitter- https://twitter.com/jaketdunlap

Writers direct years of effort to language's possibilities, so when you listen to a podcast devoted to writers speaking (which is this one) you can expect an appropriate range of possibility. You might hear something unforgettable—something that changes how you think, or reinforces a hunch you had, or confuses you in the most liberating way. On The Writers Institute, we seek those moments in the New York State Writers Institute's overbrimming audio archives, guided by writers in 2022 who join that archival exploration. In this series premiere, Susan Choi—author of novels including Trust Exercise and My Education—listens with host Adam Colman to literary giants Grace Paley and Raymond Carver. Along the way, she talks about writers in the world, off the page. “One thing I really like about writers,” Choi says, is that “writers are really curious about other people . . . I'm constantly amazed by how often I meet people who have no curiosity at all, about anything. It's really disturbing to me, actually.” On this episode: Susan Choi (in conversation with Adam Colman). Books: Trust Exercise and My Education. Raymond Carver (from the archives). Books: Cathedral and Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Grace Paley (from the archives). Books: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and Later the Same Day. Jamaica Kincaid (from the archives). Books: Lucy and A Small Place. William Kennedy (in conversation with Adam Colman). Books: Ironweed and The Ink Truck. Find out more about the New York State Writers Institute at https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 118, Caroline Zancan, Senior Editor at Henry Holt, joins me for another episode in the Genre 101 series — this time with a twist.  Caroline answers behind-the-scenes questions about editing literary fiction, as well as a deep dive into the genre itself.   This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Announcements I'd love your feedback on the podcast!  Please take a moment to complete my 2022 Podcast Survey! Highlights How Caroline got into editing: right place, right time, and Craigslist. The varying college degrees, the wide range of colleagues' previous careers, and whether there's a typical career path to becoming an editor. The je ne sais quoi factor and determining if a book is for Henry Holt. The entire process of book acquisition at Henry Holt — from determining what books to pursue and bidding on manuscripts to the approval process. Caroline's preference for dealing with an author's agent. The execution of a compatible vision for the editor-author relationship. The “right” length for a book and editing big-name authors. What the heck is ‘literary fiction' and why there seems to be a lack of consensus about this question. Current trends in the literary fiction world. Caroline's Book Recommendations [39:19] Two OLD Books She Loves Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders | Amazon | Bookshop.org [39:33] Trust Exercise by Susan Choi | Amazon | Bookshop.org [41:25] Two NEW Books She Loves Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:33] Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley | Amazon | Bookshop.org [44:14] The Series of Books She DIDN'T Love Elena Ferrante Titles  [45:46] One NEW RELEASE She's Excited About All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews (August 2, 2022) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:32] Last 5-Star Book Caroline Read Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason | Amazon | Bookshop.org [49:40] Other Books Mentioned We Wish You Luck by Caroline Zancan [2:00] Happiness by Heather Harpham [2:17] The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat [2:21] Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon [2:29] Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach [2:34] On Writing by Stephen King [29:08] Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett [40:48] I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley [44:58] Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley [45:00] About Caroline Zancan On Twitter Caroline Zancan is a Senior Editor at Holt, acquiring literary and upmarket fiction and memoir, and the author of We Wish You Luck and Local Girls. She is a graduate of Kenyon College and holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.  Caroline lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their children. 

This award-winning novel by a real writer's writer has elicited a broad range of responses, with some folks praising the prose and structure and others bouncing off its characters and style. But maybe that range of reactions was inevitable given the way Trust Exercise explores the slipperiness of memory and narrative. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Advertise on Overdue See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trust. 5 letters that carry a tremendous amount of weight. Trust falls, trusting your scene partner/kids, and why potty training is the worst – trust me!We'll kick off our show with The Raise a Glass Series, get on to our questions to explore, and end with A Short Story Before We Go. MFA is the sometimes-musical, dramedy, in 3 acts, 1 intermission, the length of a sitcom designed to give mama's (and any caregiver) a break in the day to breathe and reset along with a much-needed audio hug.  Quote: “it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be.” Isabella from her song What Else Can I Do in the movie Encanto Act I: The Raise a Glass SeriesThe Raise a Glass Series is a space for reflection and gratitude centered around the topic of the day and inspired by lyrics from Hamilton the Musical.Today's lyrics – “Burr, how do I know you won't use this against me the next time we go toe to toe? Alexander, rumors only grow, and we both know what we know”  Act II: Main Questions1.       What does trust mean? 2.       What can the theatre teach us about trust?3.       We want our kids to show us we can trust them, how do we show our children we are trustworthy? How do we model trust?4.       If we had full trust in our children and they had full trust in us, what would our relationship with our kids look like?               Intermission: Angelica Interlude Act III: A Short Story Before We Go Episode transcript: available at www.mfaparentingedition.com/047 Sources that helped inspire this episode:Building a Relationship of Trust Between You and Your Children - WeHaveKidsTrust Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterLessons on trust from child development research | Queen's University Gazette (queensu.ca)5 Improv-Inspired Games to Build Trust in Your Teams - Honestly17 Proven Drama Exercises for Building Confidence - DramaTips Connect with Me:Best way - taisha@mfparentingedition.comIG - @mfaparentingeditionSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mfaparenting)

National Book Award-winning novelist Susan Choi and critic and editor Oscar Villalon talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the business, prestige and (hopefully) idealism of literary awards. Choi talks about critical reception versus award recognition, the roles of luck and taste, and how winning a major prize for her novel Trust Exercise changed her career. Villalon talks about making his way through stacks of nominated books, who can afford to judge book awards, diversity on judging panels, and his experience chairing the 2021 Pulitzer Prize fiction jury. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected Readings: Susan Choi Trust Exercise American Woman My Education The Foreign Student Oscar Villalon ZYZZYVA Letters from San Francisco: When the Shadow is Looming Future Shock Others: Fiction - The Pulitzer Prizes Announcing the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists  Announcing the Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards  Augustus by John Williams Stoner by John Williams Is College Education a Right or a Privilege? Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 1, Episode 5 The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw Salvage The Bones - By Jesmyn Ward - Book Review - The New York Times Just How White is the Book Industry? Who Gets to Be a Writer? - Public Books Tinkers by Paul Harding All the President's Henchmen: Susan Choi and Garrett Graff on the Citizens of the Swamp Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 3, Episode 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Proverbs 3, we are told to trust God with all of our heart. What does it mean to trust God and how can we practically live out that trust? In this sermon, Josiah shows us how trusting in God means giving Him everything we have.

In Proverbs 3, we are told to trust God with all of our heart. What does it mean to trust God and how can we practically live out that trust? In this sermon, Josiah shows us how trusting in God means giving Him everything we have.

On this Election Day, we talk about how the events of Jan. 6 have affected our elections. Plus, what nations participating in COP26 will have to give up to avoid more climate change catastrophes. Read more:For months, journalists at The Washington Post have been trying to understand: How did the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6 happen? And what's happened to the country since then?As part of a three-part investigative series by The Washington Post, Rosalind S. Helderman has been reporting on how a deep distrust of the voting process has taken root across the country.“Democracy is in some ways a trust exercise,” she says. “We all go into it together and we make an agreement with each other that we are going to trust each other enough to hold an election, and if we lose, to accept the will of the majority. And if you don't trust that anymore — if the bonds of that trust erode — you just can't have a democracy.” Then we turn to climate reporter Sarah Kaplan for an update on COP26 in Glasgow — the massive climate change summit of almost 200 countries where she says “humanity tries to figure out once again how we are going to tackle climate change.” If you value the journalism you hear in this podcast, please subscribe to The Washington Post. We have a deal for our listeners: one year of unlimited access to everything The Post publishes for just $29. To sign up, go to washingtonpost.com/subscribe.

A conversation with Susan Choi, the author of five novels, Trust Exercise, My Education, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and The Foreign Student. Her work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and has won the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award, the Asian-American Literary Award, and the National Book Award for fiction. Susan discusses navigating her mixed racial identity growing up in the midwest, her father's experience as an Asian immigrant in America during racial segregation, and the importance of exploring and writing about adolescence.

This week, we're starting a mini series on revision. I'm talking about making a game out of the process of destroying your weakest sentences.Book recommendation: Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi.Please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts; it really helps us grow.

Susan Choi joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Found Objects,” by Jennifer Egan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2007. Choi is the author of five novels, including “My Education” and “Trust Exercise,” which won the National Book Award in 2019.

Star-Lord and Rocket split up to find the quickest way to the Black Vortex - and out of their guillotine collars. Emma Frost passes a test of loyalty, and gives Cora a test of her own. MARVEL'S WASTELANDERS: OLD MAN STAR-LORD starring Timothy Busfield as Star-Lord and Chris Elliott as Rocket and featuring performances by Dylan Baker (Doom), Aime Donna Kelly (Francine), Michael Laurence (Sebastian Warn), Nadine Malouf (Cora), Aasif Mandvi (Rattlesnake Pete), Eric T. Miller (Brandon Best), Blake Morris (Drunk Man), Patrick Page (Kraven the Hunter), Vanessa Williams (Emma Frost), and Danny Glover (Red Crotter). Directed by Kimberly Senior. Original sound design and music by Mark Henry Phillips. Written by Benjamin Percy. 

Star-Lord and Rocket split up to find the quickest way to the Black Vortex - and out of their guillotine collars. Emma Frost passes a test of loyalty, and gives Cora a test of her own. MARVEL'S WASTELANDERS: OLD MAN STAR-LORD starring Timothy Busfield as Star-Lord and Chris Elliott as Rocket and featuring performances by Dylan Baker (Doom), Aime Donna Kelly (Francine), Michael Laurence (Sebastian Warn), Nadine Malouf (Cora), Aasif Mandvi (Rattlesnake Pete), Eric T. Miller (Brandon Best), Blake Morris (Drunk Man), Patrick Page (Kraven the Hunter), Vanessa Williams (Emma Frost), and Danny Glover (Red Crotter). Directed by Kimberly Senior. Original sound design and music by Mark Henry Phillips. Written by Benjamin Percy. 

Star-Lord and Rocket split up to find the quickest way to the Black Vortex - and out of their guillotine collars. Emma Frost passes a test of loyalty, and gives Cora a test of her own. MARVEL'S WASTELANDERS: OLD MAN STAR-LORD starring Timothy Busfield as Star-Lord and Chris Elliott as Rocket and featuring performances by Dylan Baker (Doom), Aime Donna Kelly (Francine), Michael Laurence (Sebastian Warn), Nadine Malouf (Cora), Aasif Mandvi (Rattlesnake Pete), Eric T. Miller (Brandon Best), Blake Morris (Drunk Man), Patrick Page (Kraven the Hunter), Vanessa Williams (Emma Frost), and Danny Glover (Red Crotter). Directed by Kimberly Senior. Original sound design and music by Mark Henry Phillips. Written by Benjamin Percy. 

Vanessa sometimes tells white lies in low stakes situations. Lies like ‘yes, I love that dress!' or ‘I really enjoyed meeting your boyfriend!' Are these lies good for her relationships? Or do they make her untrustworthy?With help from Trust Exercise by Susan Choi and Grey's Anatomy, Vanessa and Casper try to untangle the relationship between truth and trust and figure out when it's okay to lie. --We are so grateful to our supporters on Patreon who make this show possible. If you can, please considering chipping in! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today JD & Col delight in each other as they dive into, well, Delight! Col wonders what effect the collective touch deficit we've experienced this year will have on us all. JD finds delight in the notion that we're all living in a dream, which admittedly freaks others out. They chat about the role of surprise in delight, how it acts as a punctuation mark kind of emotion, and how to reclaim delight if it's been pathologized as mania in the past. Finally JD and Col share books that have provided them delighted them this year like Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman and Trust Exercise by Susan Choi As always they refer to this beautiful list of 300 emotions by Prakhar Verma - Expand Your Emotional Vocabulary With This Dictionary Of Emotions As we keep on keeping on with this podcast we need your help connecting with more listeners, show us your support by listening, sharing, rating and subscribing. You can even support us on Patreon, if you like, here

In this episode, the hosts discuss Amy Engel's thriller The Roanoke Girls (ICK!). Lot's for August and Kendra to unpack there. They share how they feel about the book, representations of grooming and abuse, and some books that The Roanoke Girls reminds them of. The first half of the episode is SPOILER FREE and includes the recommendations, so do enjoy the episode even if you have not read the book! Warnings will come right before the spoiler section. TW: mentions of sexual abuse, incest, grooming, and murder. Books mentioned in the episode: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo (2021) Perfume by Patrick Süskind (1985) The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel (2017) Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (2006) The Girls by Emma Cline (2016) Dare Me by Megan Abbott (2012) Into The Water by Paula Hawkins (2017) The Wife Between Us by Greeer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen (2018) The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (1987) The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware (2018) The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (2018) Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (2015) Bunny by Mona Awad (2015) Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (2015

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts," two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school's walls--until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true--though it's not false, either. It takes until the book's stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place--revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence. As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Susan Choi's Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support

A caller writes “I love a good plot twist. Bonus if the plot isn't a murder or cfrime.” Vox book critic, Constance Grady gives some recs and shares an excerpt of her conversation with Susan Choi, author of Trust Exercise, from the Vox Book Club.  Constance recommends: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein The Nickle Boys by Colson Whitehead Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Watch Susan Choi's full conversation with Constance here:  https://www.vox.com/culture/22163906/susan-choi-trust-exercise-interview-vox-book-club If you are looking for a book recommendation, you can email Constance Dot Grady at Vox dot com. Be sure to use the subject line “Ask A Book Critic.”    Enjoyed this episode? Rate Vox Quick Hits ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.   Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Vox Quick Hits by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Support Vox Quick Hits by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, our guest is novelist Susan Choi.  She’s the author of five books, most recently “Trust Exercise”. It centers on a group of teenagers at a competitive art school in 1980s suburbia.  What starts out as something straightforward becomes more complex – and with an experimental narrative structure that concludes with a surprise twist.  The book won the 2019 National Book Award for fiction.  Choi teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn. On February 16, 2021, Susan Choi spoke with Rachel Khong, the author of “Goodbye, Vitamin”. Choi described growing up as one of a few people of color in her Indiana town, and how teaching writing has made her a better writer.

Today we review our first official novel of the year, 2019’s “Trust Exercise” by fabulous up-and-coming author Susan Choi. Herein lie my thoughts about this novel as well as Susan Choi’s short fiction. -- patreon.com/relevanceofliterature relevanceofliterature.com/notes — Music by Lizzie Discenza Our Show: relevanceofliterature.com Our old (and yes, still functioning) blog: didionandhawthorne.blubrry.net

RJ, Laurel, Katy and Ron discussed Susan Choi's "Trust Exercise."

On September 29, 2020 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Susan Choi in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan. Introduction by Aminatta Forna.Susan Choi is most recently the author of Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for fiction, and her first book for children, Camp Tiger (2019). Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn.Maureen Corrigan is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism in the Department of English at Georgetown University. For the past 31 years, Corrigan has been the weekly book critic on the Peabody Award-winning NPR program, ''Fresh Air.'' She is also a Mystery Columnist for The Washington Post and publishes regularly on NPR on-line and The Wall Street Journal. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

In this week's episode of Friends to Lovers, Mackenzie and Lily discuss why Sally Rooney's novel Normal People is so hyped, what makes a true Angsty Youth™ book, why Old Navy's men's section has the best graphic T-shirts, and which "groundbreakingly terrible" piece of fiction they both threw across the room while reading.Major episode timestamps: Introduction (0:00), Housekeeping (1:26), Introduction to Main Discussion (4:11), Introduction to Normal People (5:15), Introduction to Angsty Youth™ Definition (16:22), The Ensemble by Aja Gabel (20:14), The Mothers by Brit Bennett (23:43), Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (27:12), All My Mother's Lovers by Ilana Masad (36:01), Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales (39:13), Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah (42:37), Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls (47:02), Bad Bitch Book Club Member Recommendations (47:29), Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (47:45), Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan (48:48), Emergency Contact and Permanent Record by Mary HK Choi (49:06), Conclusion (49:41).You can get full show notes and episode transcriptions on the Bad Bitch Book Club website: http://badbitchbookclub.com/podcast.Give us a five-star rating wherever you get your podcasts, and say hi to us at @F2LPodcast on Twitter and Instagram. You can also join the private F2L Facebook group.If you want to support Bad Bitch Book Club's initiatives (including this podcast), become a Patreon member: https://www.patreon.com/badbitchbookclub.Buy all books mentioned on Friends to Lovers: https://bookshop.org/lists/friends-to-lovers-podcast.Friends to Lovers is a Bad Bitch Book Club podcast hosted by BBBC founder Mackenzie Newcomb and writer, editor, and bestie Lily Herman. Each week, they use books as a jumping off point to talk about sex, relationships, dating, love, romance, and more.Podcast logo by MKW Creative Co. (https://mkwcreative.co/) and music by Eliza Rose Vera (http://www.elizarosevera.com).

Michael struggles with an unconventional mashup of holocaust memoir and sports-based dystopia in Georges Perec’s W, or The Memory of Childhood, while Emily is captivated by the sexual politics of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, yet frustrated by its open-ended narrative. They talk about trauma, memory, age gaps in dating, and visualizing the things you read.

Susan Choi reads her story from the September 7, 2020, issue of the magazine. Choi is the author of five novels, including “My Education” and “Trust Exercise,” which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019. 

On this episode we discuss Trust Exercise by Susan Choi and New Waves by Kevin Nguyen. This pair of seemingly disparate titles—one about a performing arts high school, the other about a tech startup—seem like they have little in common, but beyond having striking covers, they both explore what it means for the reader to be able to trust a narrator in contemporary reading. We also talk about our online lives and how they differ from our in person lives.

TRUST EXERCISE by Susan Choi MIND OF MY MIND by Octavia E. Butler   This week Talia Bolnick of The Hatchery Press joins us as we review TRUST EXERCISE by SUSAN CHOI, a form-bending novel about teens in an exclusive drama school and MIND OF MY MIND by OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, the story of a young telepath in 1970s Los Angeles struggling against the man who created her. We also debate the value of engaging with difficult stories, whether or not you can judge a book by earlier installments in a series, and discuss possible names for our listeners! Plus, all the details on The To Read List Child!

A teenage romance is observed and manipulated by a charismatic drama teacher at a highly competitive performing arts high school in the 1980’s. "Trust Exercise" by Susan Choi is a multi-layered novel of unreliable memory, friendship and truth.

Susan Choi is the guest. Her novel, Trust Exercise, is available in trade paperback from Henry Holt. It is the winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. Her first book for children, Camp Tiger, was published in 2019.  A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I did an Instagram Live with Susan Choi, which was so much fun. Susan's first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, came out in April 2019 and is the one we talked about the most. It won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. Susan and I also talked about quarantine hair secrets, our agreement that the world students live in today is more complicated than the one we grew up in, and that different secrets to writing a book sometimes feel just like learning to parent different children.

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Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, Trust Exercise follows a star-crossed suburban teen romance in a 1980s performing arts high school. Susan Choi's novels are known for excavating the hidden corners of the human heart and acclaimed for their ''nuance, psychological acuity, and pitch-perfect writing'' (Los Angeles Times). Her books include the Asian American Literary Award–winning The Foreign Student; American Woman, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize; A Person of Interest, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award; and My Education, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. A creative writing teacher at Yale, Choi has earned Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. The author of nearly 30 books for young people and adults, Jacqueline Woodson has won three Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and three Coretta Scott King Honors, and the 2014 National Book Award for Brown Girl Dreaming, a poetry collection about her upbringing in New York and South Carolina amidst the vestiges of Jim Crow. Her other books include After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Another Brooklyn, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Woodson's latest novel, ''a universal American tale of striving, failing, then trying again'' (Time), addresses a bevy of societal issues through the intergenerational saga of a family striving to escape the tug of history. (recorded 5/7/2020)

Its The Stacks Book Club day, and we're discussing the 2019 National Book Award winner in fiction, Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. Our guest is Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life, and if you missed Brandon's first episode you can hear it here. Trust Exercise looks at fiction, perspective, and truth as it ventures back to a 1980's performing arts high school. On this episode we discuss the many twists and turns we experienced as readers and our takes on the characters. We dive deep today, and that means lots of spoilers. You've been warned. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2020/04/29/ep-109-trust-exercise SUPPORT THE STACKSLibro.FM - get three audiobooks for the price of one when you use code THE STACKS at checkout. Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small comission. Connect with Brandon: Twitter |

Priya Parker, the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, is helping us take a deeper look at how we can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. Not only do we discuss Priya's amazing book, but we also talk about connecting with purpose when we cannot be physically together. She shares insight into her new podcast Together Apart which is about gatherings in the time of Coronavirus. We also look ahead to how we will gather after COVID-19. Remember, The Stacks Book Club selection for April is Trust Exercise by Susan Choi, we will discuss the book with Brandon Taylor on April 29th. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2020/04/22/ep-108-priya-parker Connect with Priya: Twitter | Instagram | Website |Together Apart Podcast Connect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Apple Podcasts |

Abi Daré is the debut novelist of The Girl with the Louding Voice. Her book is a coming of age story about a Nigerian girl, Adunni, who is sold into marriage by her father, and the the journey she goes on to find her voice. Today we talk with Daré about how her characters haunt her thoughts, her unique writing process, and her unexpected day job. Remember, The Stacks Book Club selection for April is Trust Exercise by Susan Choi, we will discuss the book with Brandon Taylor on April 29th. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2020/04/15/ep-107-abi-dare SUPPORT THE STACKSLibro.FM - get three audiobooks for the price of one when you use code THE STACKS at checkout. Use this link to shop for all the books discussed on today's show. Connect with Abi: Twitter | Instagram Connect with The Stacks: Instagram |Twitter |The...

Wow, No Thank You is the most recent essay collection from the hilarious and charming Samantha Irby. We talk today with Samantha about her new book, how she pitches her collections, and what sort of mood she strikes when she sits down to writes (its not what you think). This episode, like Irby's writing, is sure to make you laugh out loud. Remember, The Stacks Book Club selection for April is Trust Exercise by Susan Choi, we will discuss the book with Brandon Taylor on April 29th. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website:https://thestackspodcast.com/2020/04/08/ep-106-samantha-irby SUPPORT THE STACKSLibro.FM - get three audiobooks for the price of one when you use code THE STACKS at checkout. Use this link to shop for all the books discussed on today's show. Connect with Samantha: Twitter | Instagram | Website | Newsletter Connect with The Stacks: Instagram

Today marks the start of our third year here at The Stacks, and there is no better way to celebrate than by talking a whole lot about books! Thank you to all our listeners for their love and support, and we can't wait for year three! Make sure to listen to the introduction today to hear about some changes to the podcast. Our Guest today is Brandon Taylor, debut author of one of 2020's buzziest books, Real Life. We talk today about releasing a book into the world, the similarities between science and art, and much more. The Stacks Book Club selection for April is Trust Exercise by Susan Choi, we will discuss the book with Brandon Taylor on April 29th. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2020/04/01/ep-105-brandon-taylor SUPPORT THE STACKSLibro.FM - get three audiobooks for the price of one when you use code THE STACKS at checkout. Use this link to shop for all the books discussed on today's show. Connect with Brandon: Twitter| Instagram| WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram |Twitter |The Stacks Website |Facebook |

Spoilers and secrets have a lot in common, but what happens when a book’s structure is the spoiler? How do you talk about something like that without giving too much away? Don't look at us for the answer. In this episode we spoil the hell of National Book Award winner Susan Choi's novel Trust Exercises.An amazing narrative accomplishment, Choi's book asks probing questions about the exact nature of truth, honesty and secrets. But it also asks questions about structure and form and finally one of the biggest questions for a writer these days: Exactly what makes a book a novel? About the Author:Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a film. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, and her first book for children, Camp Tiger, came out earlier this year. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn. Episode Credits:This episode was produced, mixed, and sound-designed by Andrew Dunn, with editorial help from Beau Friedlander.  Our host and co-producer is Amanda Stern.  Music:“Up Sight” by The Brow, “Amazing” by Joonie, “Sonogram” by John Venderslice, “Horizon” by Fremont, “Feeling Sound” by Jupyter, “Adobe Dog House” by Gideon Freudmann, "Gold Rush" by Complicated Congas. 

The Fantasy Footballers Podcast is back with a new episode! Take your choice of Andy, Mike, or Jason to help you in a handful of scenarios! Who would want as your co-pilot, or fighting off zombies? After that and some big NFL News, it’s mailbag time! We’re here all year long to answer your redraft, keeper, and dynasty questions! Manage your fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.-- Fantasy Football Podcast for February 20th, 2020. Pre-order the 2020 Ultimate Draft Kit at the lowest price! Connect with the show: Visit us on the web Join our Fantasy Football community Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube Want even more fantasy football goodness? Visit our community forums to chat everything fantasy football. Check out today's sponsors: Pristine Auction -- Registration Code - ballers Support this podcast 

In this episode, novelist Susan Choi and journalist Garrett Graff talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about henchmen in political headlines and political literature. Graff talks about the word's mob connotations, as well as its connections to the Trump and Nixon administrations; Choi talks about degrees of loyalty, and henchmen in literature, from Falstaff to Trust Exercise and American Woman.  To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Guests: Garrett Graff Susan Choi Selected readings for the episode: Garrett Graff The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11   The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror  Susan Choi Trust Exercise: A Novel American Woman: A Novel Camp Tiger Others Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler, including the story “Finger Man” Thumb-headed henchman | LRC Presents: All the President's Lawyers Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine Henchman Lev Parnas Roped in Everybody, But the Funniest Is Devin Nunes The Godfather: 50th Anniversary Edition All the President's Men Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Winner of the 2019 National Book Award, Trust Exercise is a timely exploration of sexual politics, fiction and truth. Choi talks to Eleanor Wachtel about the novel, and about exploring the experiences of Asian-American characters in her work.

Through a series of math exercises and arcane rituals, the Booked. fellas discovered that Trust Exercise by Susan Choi is considered by a majority of people who make lists to be the best book of 2019. Well, we wanted to know for ourselves. Is this the best book we read in 2019? Tune in to find out. And stick around, there's certainly some spoiler talk for this baby.

Through a series of math exercises and arcane rituals, the Booked. fellas discovered that Trust Exercise by Susan Choi is considered by a majority of people who make lists to be the best book of 2019. Well, we wanted to know for ourselves. Is this the best book we read in 2019? Tune in to find out. And stick around, there's certainly some spoiler talk for this baby.

For the last episode of 2019, Gwen surprises Frank by reading one of his all time favorite books, Frank delves into the world of Trust Exercise and Gwen shares a personal announcement. Stay warm on those windswept moors everybody, and we'll see you in 2020!

Our annual roundup of all the books we read in 2019! We share number of books read (Hannah smokes us all, of course), give out awards, and look ahead to 2020. Links:  NYT 100 Notable books for 2019 Patricia Lockwood on John Updike Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Gwenyth Paltrow/Goop  Books mentioned: Furious Hours, Casey Cep; The Topeka School, Ben Lerner; Fleishman is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Normal People & Converations with Friends, Sally Rooney; Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday; Trust Exercise, Susan Choi; Transcription, Kate Atkinson; The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson; Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood; Educated, Tara Westover; Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo; Ladies Who Punch, Ramin Setoodeh; Here I am, Jonathan Safran Foer; The Overstory, Richard Powers; Find Me, Andre Aciman; The Patrick Melrose novels, Edward St Aubyn; Circe, Madeline Miller; Frankenstein, Mary Shelley; Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevksy; The Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante; Howard’s End, E.M. Forster.

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Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019. Recorded at the 2019 Miami Book Fair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Such a Fun Age, Dead Astronauts, This is Going To Hurt, and more great December books. This episode was sponsored the Read Harder Journal, Book Riot's Read Harder 2020 Challenge, and Sips by RGH. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom by Toni Morrison The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey  This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident by Adam Kay Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison  Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow Burn the Place: A Memoir by Iliana Regan What we're reading: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch More books out this week: Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America by J. M. Fenster Treachery: A Novel (Giordano Bruno Thriller) by S. J. Parris  Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean Free Day (New York Review Books Classics) by Inès Cagnati, Liesl Schillinger (translator) Nine Elms (Kate Marshall) by Robert Bryndza  One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle The Wilds by Vita Ayala, Emily Pearson (Artist) Now You See Them (Magic Men Mysteries) by Elly Griffiths Just Watch Me: A Novel by Jeff Lindsay The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt by Burt Solomon Plate Tectonics: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaux Motin  Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance by Jennieke Cohen Meg and Jo by Virginia Kantra The Thank-You Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time by Nancy Davis Kho All the Colors of Magic by Valija Zinck When Old Midnight Comes Along (Amos Walker Novels) by Loren D. Estleman  Scared Little Rabbits by A.V. Geiger Thin Ice: A Mystery by Paige Shelton  1973: Rock at the Crossroads by Andrew Grant Jackson Walk the Wild With Me by Rachel Atwood Reverie by Ryan La Sala Oppo: A Novel by Tom Rosenstiel Anyone: A Novel by Charles Soule Down Among the Dead by K.B. Wagers Winter Grave (An Embla Nystrom Investigation) by Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy (translator) Scornful Stars (Breaker of Empires Book 3) by Richard Baker The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories by John L'Heureux Reputation: A Novel by Sara Shepard Diamond & Dawn (Amber & Dusk, Book 2) by Lyra Selene  Children of Virtue & Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh  Trace of Evil: A Natalie Lockhart Novel by Alice Blanchard  Elena Ferrante’s Key Words by Tiziana de Rogatis, Will Schutt (translator) The Sacrament: A Novel by Olaf Olafsson Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer by Carol Sklenicka  Heaven on Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo Discovered the Modern World by L. S. Fauber The General Zapped an Angel: Stories (Art of the Story) by Howard Fast  Nietzsche and the Burbs by Lars Iyer Blitzed (The Playbook) by Alexa Martin  The Revisionaries by A. R. Moxon  A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel This Is Happiness by Niall Williams From Sea to Stormy Sea: 17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings by Lawrence Block  Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters

Correction: We stated that this novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, but that is wrong. One of Susan Choi's previous novels was a finalist, not Trust Exercise. Sorry for destroying your trust in us. However, this novel DID win the National Book Award for Fiction. We attempt to figure out why. Lots of spoilers in this one, and here's an explicit content warning too.

We rave about Olga Tokarczuk's genre-defying novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, which also has the best book title possibly ever conceived.  Our next read will be either Trust Exercise by Susan Choi or Autumn by Ali Smith (our beloved Patrons will decide!). 

Episode 3.12, recorded live from Barrington Books in Cranston, R.I., features Dave Pezza and special guest James Charlesworth (The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill) discussing Susan Choi's National Book Award finalist Trust Exercise. Today's episode is sponsored by OneRoom.

Hi, it's Ryan. I'm not on this episode because my internet was being a real shit, and I haven't listened to it yet, so I have no idea what it contains! I predict there's probably some talk about Rutgers and UNC, and Spencer probably freaks out about the Auburn-Florida game. Maybe something about Virginia Tech getting flattened by Duke? Shrug. Let's find out together. Surely I won't be mocked and slandered on this episode!

In today's episode, we're looking back at the trust exercise that has been our podcasting experience. We talk about being the best in the room; why research is so important; and make an important point about sponsorships. All this and more!

The Jennys return with another shelf review for oldest unread books, then launch the 2019 Hatening with Susan Choi's weirdo novel Trust Exercise.

Gayle and Nicole were waylaid by travel and illness last week, but they are now back in business! Today, they talk about new paperbacks out this summer, catch up on what they've been reading, and discuss their July book club pick, https://amzn.to/2K7SnWt (Trust Exercise) by Susan Choi. (The book club discussion begins around 42 minutes in, if you want to avoid spoilers.) https://amzn.to/2YBOLEi (Three Women) by Lisa Taddeo https://amzn.to/2yvwvh2 (The Year Of The Runaways) by Sunjeev Sahoda https://amzn.to/2yrc2Kv (The Travelers) by Regina Porter https://amzn.to/2YyQ4Uw (Black Is The Body) by Emily Bernard https://amzn.to/2GED7hD (The World According To Fannie Davis) by Bridgett M. Davis https://amzn.to/2MqFkRw (Everything Is Just Fine) by Brett Paesel (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/07/everything-is-just-fine-by-brett-paesel/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2GE11Kk (The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill) by Abbi Waxman https://amzn.to/2ynq287 (How Not To Die Alone) by Richard Roper https://amzn.to/2ynnWoL (Social Creature) by Tara Isabella Burton https://amzn.to/2GC8Tfu (How To Walk Away) by Katherine Center (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2018/07/how-to-walk-away-by-katherine-center/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2SX2sse (Things You Save In A Fire) by Katherine Center https://amzn.to/2GEEWLv (Give Me Your Hand) by Megan Abbott https://amzn.to/2Yrrh4T (A Double Life) by Flynn Berry https://amzn.to/2K8C4so (Vox) by Christina Dalcher (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2018/09/vox-by-christina-dalcher/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2Ox7kpw (Red Clocks) by Leni Zumas (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2018/11/red-clocks-by-leni-zumas/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/316aMZn (Baby Teeth) by Zoje Stage (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/04/baby-teeth-by-zoje-stage/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2YClZU1 (The Two Lila Bennetts) by Liz Fenton https://amzn.to/31azIzg (A Ladder To The Sky) by John Boyne https://amzn.to/2LPWNUh (Meet Me At The Museum) by Anne Youngson https://amzn.to/2STubdc (Virgil Wander) by Leif Enger https://amzn.to/2LVlyOz (My Sister, The Serial Killer) by Oyinkan Brathwaite https://amzn.to/2K7ugqT (The Witch Elm) by Tana French https://amzn.to/2LS4mK0 (The Incendiaries) by R. O. Kwon https://amzn.to/2K6ar3i (The Silence Of The Girls) by Pat Barker https://amzn.to/2YBUwSq (Here And Now And Then) by Mike Chen https://amzn.to/2SVn9Ve (Trust Exercise) by Susan Choi (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/07/trust-exercise-by-susan-choi/ (Gayle's review here)) *Books linked above are our affiliate links. There's no additional expense you, but if you make a purchase through us a small portion of that contributes to the costs associated with making our podcast. Thanks so much for listening and for your support! Support this podcast

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Daniel and I talk about our love of reading and books, including a mutual love for V.C. Andrews. Learn how Daniel and his friend Sean Tuohy started the Writer’s Bone podcast in 2014 and how their original idea changed and grew to what it is today, which is primarily interviews with both well-known and lesser-known authors. Next, Writer’s Bone grew into a podcast network, adding the podcasts Novel Class, Film Freaks Forever and Pop Literacy. Daniel talks about juggling all his interests and responsibilities with his day job. It comes down to scheduling everything. He also uses his lunch hour to work on his podcast network. Daniel has written a novel and a collection of short stories—both through an independent publishing house. Learn how that differs from the traditional and the self-publishing routes. Daniel explains how he landed with an independent publisher and what he gains from that type of publisher. Daniel is a marketer, so it’s natural for him to do some of his own marketing. Learn what marketing techniques worked for him while promoting his books. Daniel recommends you find the independent publisher that is right for you. And he cautions that writing and publishing a book is still a lot of hard work. Don’t think you can write a book for six months and then be ready to publish. Share it with others to get feedback before you send it to publishers. Ask potential publishers about distribution. Get a lawyer to look over your book contract. And if you have a question of your publisher, ask it. Don’t be afraid to fight for your work during the editing process. Biz Bite: Take some time and effort to think about how you want your business to be run. And invest some money to strengthen your initial product. Resources: Daniel’s podcast network: Writer’s Bone Novel Class Film Freaks Forever! Pop Literacy Daniel’s books: Black Coffee—available July 1 from 50/50 Press! Sid Sanford Lives! Books Daniel and Melanie mention: “Trust Exercise” by Susan Choi “What Should Be Wild” by Julia Fine “Miracle Creek” by Angie Kim “The Missing Ones” (A Hester Thursby Mystery book 2) by Edwin Hills “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone” by Lori Gottlieb “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” by Gary Almeter Melanie’s first guest stint on Writer’s Bone Melanie’s second guest appearance on Writer’s Bone Melanie’s Writer’s Bone guest blog post: Stop Calling Yourself a Freelancer Boston area bookstores: Trident Booksellers Belmont Books Porter Square Books Papercuts J.P. I AM books New York bookstore: Kew & Willow Books, Kew Gardens, N.Y.

In Episode 23, Carla from Happiest When Reading joins me to break down the 2019 books so far that most deserve the hype, least deserve the hype, and the best underrated gems.  This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights How Carla and my reading has been so far this year. How DNF’ing books is keeping Carla out of reading slumps. Carla’s trusted recommendation sources (Novel Visits, Gilmore Guide to Books,@basicbsguide, Grace Atwood from Bad on Paper Podcast and The Stripe,Bookpage). Sarah’s additions to Carla’s trusted recommendation sources (Currently Reading podcast, The Readerly Report podcast). What constitutes “bookish hype” for us. A couple of Carla’s trusted authors. Carla and I (who are usually reading twins) disagree on two books Carla didn’t think deserved the hype. 2019 Books that MOST Deserved the Hype (So Far) Sarah’s Picks Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (My Review) | Buy from Amazon[10:02] I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott | Buy from Amazon [16:29] Carla’s Picks City of Girlsby Elizabeth Gilbert (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [13:34] Golden Child by Claire Adam (My Book of the Month commentary) | Buy from Amazon [18:52] Our Co-Sign Pick Ask Again, Yesby Mary Beth Keane (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [22:11] 2019 Books that LEAST Deserved the Hype (So Far) Sarah’s Picks The Night Before by Wendy Walker | Buy from Amazon [26:04] Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [29:45] Carla’s Picks The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (My Review) | Buy from Amazon[27:05] Normal People by Sally Rooney (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [31:24] The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo | Buy from Amazon [35:11] 2019 Underrated Gems (So Far) Sarah’s Picks Talk to Me by John Kenney (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [38:50] The Body in Question by Jill Ciment | Buy from Amazon [43:02] Carla’s Picks A People’s History of Heavenby Mathangi Subramanian | Buy from Amazon[40:28] Sugar Run by Mesha Maron | Buy from Amazon [44:49] Our Co-Sign Pick The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [47:18] Other Books Mentioned The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [7:34] The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [7:34] The Wife by Meg Wolitzer (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [7:42] Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (My Review) | Buy from Amazon[9:46] Out East by John Glenn | Buy from Amazon [9:46] Live From New York by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales | Buy from Amazon [11:01] The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [11:35] Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (April 9) | Buy from Amazon [25:23] Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [26:10] The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker | Buy from Amazon [29:24] The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson | Buy from Amazon [30:21] Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney | Buy from Amazon [32:36] Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (My Review) | Buy from Amazon[38:16] Out East by John Glenn | Buy from Amazon [38:16] The Line That Held Us by David Joy (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [46:42] Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [49:19] Other Links Sarah’s Best Books of 2019 (So Far) Susie at Novel Visits Catherine at Gilmore Guide to Books Podcast Episode 21 with Mary Laura Philpott Trusted Recommendation Sources: Annie Jones, Tyler Goodson, Ashley Spivey My 2019 Summer Reading Guide Podcast Episode 10 with Kelly from the Well-Read Runner Kavitha’s Library Instagram review of Golden Child Modern Mrs. Darcy’s 2019 Summer Guide (and the Minimalist version) Book of the Month Sarah’s Best of the Brain Candy List Podcast Episode 2: Winter 2019 Book Preview About Carla Blog | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter  As a stay-at-home mama to two “tween” kids, I finally have more time to dedicate to reading. I have loved getting back into a passion of mine that I’ve had since I was a small girl. But sadly, what I quickly came to realize is that I really don’t have a lot of local reading friends. As a way to connect with others who love to read just as much as I do, I started my “Bookstagram” account (@happiestwhenreading). This community has given me a place to engage in bookish conversations, and I can truly say I have made so many online friendships that I’m truly grateful to have. Support the Podcast Share - If you like the podcast, I’d love for you to share it with your reader friends…in real life and on social media (there’s easy share buttons at the bottom of this post!). Subscribe...wherever you listen to podcasts, so new episodes will appear in your feed as soon as they’re released. Rate and Review - Search for “Sarah’s Book Shelves” in Apple Podcasts…or wherever you listen to podcasts! 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Act I: Joey's afraid of Meryl Streep. Charlie gets yelled at in a bar.   Act II: A discussion of Trust Exercise by Susan Choi, with literary analysis by our friend Eileen.    Trust Exercise: https://bit.ly/2XgatNB "The Soul of Big Little Lies Is in Its Music": https://bit.ly/2nFaNTO "Experience: I killed my classmate with a javelin on sports day": https://bit.ly/2XUxP8g "Uber's Path of Destruction": https://bit.ly/2KqvKgr

Authors Erica Jong and Susan Choi joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf in our third and final installment from the 2019 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on USC Campus. First, Erica Jong talks about her new collection of poems, “The World Began with Yes,” as well how she sees the present moment from the long view of her engagement with feminist and other political causes. Then, exploring the trials and tribulations of life in high school, Susan Choi’s talks about the ethics of storytelling and how her novel “Trust Exercise” emerges from questions about how we work through our ideas about power, identity and values in the turbulent years of high school and, much later, after we've become adults.

Authors Erica Jong and Susan Choi joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf in our third and final installment from the 2019 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on USC Campus. First, Erica Jong talks about her new collection of poems, “The World Began with Yes,” as well how she sees the present moment from the long view of her engagement with feminist and other political causes. Then, exploring the trials and tribulations of life in high school, Susan Choi's talks about the ethics of storytelling and how her novel “Trust Exercise” emerges from questions about how we work through our ideas about power, identity and values in the turbulent years of high school and, much later, after we've become adults.

Brett Evans and Anthea Taylor join Cassie and Kate to discuss new novels by Susan Choi, Elizabeth Gilbert and Richard Anderson, and Irish writer Caolinn Hughes reveals the books that have shaped her.

Welcome to a special episode of the Sarah’s Book Shelves Live podcast…the Summer 2019 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books! Catherine and I share our most anticipated books coming out in June and July of 2019. This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights Catherine and my success rate for books we shared in our Winter 2019 Preview episode. Our Best and Worst picks from the Spring 2019 Preview episode. The book Sarah DNF’d at 3% and Catherine rated 1 star. Each of our #1 picks for Summer. A tangent about the day of the week new releases always come out (it’s Tuesday). A rant about thrillers with “Girls” and “Wife” in the title (in this case, related to Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger). Summer 2019 Book Preview June Sarah’s Picks: Beyond All Reasonable Doubt by Malin Persson Giolito (June 4) | Buy from Amazon [8:54](UPDATE: I DNF’d this book at 132 Pages) Recursion by Blake Crouch (June 11) | Buy from Amazon [14:04] (UPDATE: I’ve now read this book and rated it 4 stars!) The Body in Question by Jill Ciment (June 11) | Buy from Amazon [18:55]  Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner (June 11) | Buy from Amazon [23:00] (UPDATE: I DNF’d this book at 7%) Catherine’s Picks: Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok (June 4) | Buy from Amazon [11:30] The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora (June 11) | Buy from Amazon [16:35] Bunny by Mona Awad (June 11) | Buy from Amazon [21:18] The Body Lies by Jo Baker (June 13) | Buy from Amazon [25:40]  July Sarah’s Picks: Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger (July 2) | Buy from Amazon [28:20] We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlap (July 2) | Buy from Amazon [32:15] We Went to the Woods by Caite Dolan-Leach (July 2) | Buy from Amazon [37:20] The Need by Helen Phillips (July 9) | Buy from Amazon [42:08] Catherine’s Picks: Whisper Network by Chandler Baker (July 2) | Buy from Amazon [31:09] A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar (July 9) | Buy from Amazon [34:48] The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (July 16) | Buy from Amazon [39:59] If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais (July 16) | Buy from Amazon [45:13] Other Books Mentioned I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [4:35] Out East by John Glenn | Buy from Amazon [4:45] Normal People by Sally Rooney | Buy from Amazon [5:19] Trust Exercise by Susan Choi | Buy from Amazon [6:24] The Spectators by Jennifer Dubois | Buy from Amazon [7:34] Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [9:07] Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok | Buy from Amazon [11:39] Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok | Buy from Amazon [12:02] Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [14:35] The Wonder Garden by Lauren Acampora | Buy from Amazon [16:54] Hungry Heart by Jennifer Weiner (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [23:34] Longbourn by Jo Baker | Buy from Amazon [25:53] The Banker’s Wife by Cristina Alger (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [28:31] The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [33:56] You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [33:56] The Falconer by Dana Czapnik | Buy from Amazon [33:56] The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [35:11] Sugar Run by Mesha Maron | Buy from Amazon [36:05] Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [37:20] The Secret History by Donna Tartt | Buy from Amazon [37:57] Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [37:57] We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [38:45] The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead | Buy from Amazon [41:25] The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips (My Review) |Buy from Amazon [42:22] The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [44:31] Some Possible Solutions by Helen Phillips (My Review) | Buy From Amazon [44:48] Hum If You Know the Words by Bianca Marais | Buy from Amazon [45:28] Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar | Buy from Amazon [46:31] Other Links My Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2019 (Sarah’s blog post) The Literary Life podcast with Mary Laura Philpott The Readerly Report Podcast Anne Bogel’s One Great Book Patreon Podcast Running N Reading (Tara’s book blog) Annie Jones from the From the Front Porch podcast Ashley Spivey Kelly Massry from Kelly’s Collections Author Taylor Jenkins Reid Sarah’s Book Shelves Live Episode 1: Georgia Hunter (Historical Fiction) About Catherine Gilmore Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Catherine started The Gilmore Guide to Books over 6 years ago after wrapping up a career as a corporate librarian. She loves books and reading (surprise!) and currently lives in Seattle. Next Week’s Episode Our Top 10 All-Time Favorite Summer Reads with Susie from Novel Visits (airing May 22) Support the Podcast Share - If you like the podcast, I’d love for you to share it with your reader friends…in real life and on social media (there’s easy share buttons at the bottom of this post!). Subscribe...wherever you listen to podcasts, so new episodes will appear in your feed as soon as they’re released. Rate and Review - Search for “Sarah’s Book Shelves” in Apple Podcasts…or wherever you listen to podcasts! Feedback - I want this podcast to fit what you’re looking for, so I truly do want your feedback! Please tell me (email me at sarahsbookshelves@gmail.com or DM me on social media) what you like, don’t like, want more of, want less of, etc. I’d also love to hear topics you’d like me to cover and guests you’d like to hear from.

That’s right—Ed and John are back, sooner than expected. Ed’s doing better off of his diet than he was on it. John’s cooking up a bowl of revenge grits. Together they discuss Jane and Phil’s upstate vacation, elaboration in prose writing, trying not to repeat yourself, bluegrass innovation, passed appetizers both comestible and musical, John’s novel idea, and the appeal, to children, of advertising. Follow links to Graywolf’s Literary Soireé on May 15, Elvis’s Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits, David Chesworth’s 50 Synthesizer Greats, Bridgetown Bluegrass Festival, Zachary Lazar’s Vengeance, Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, and Rhiannon Giddens.

Susan Choi's explosive and riveting new novel, Trust Exercise, is out now from Henry Holt. She and Courtney discuss the manipulative qualities of storytelling, the slipperiness of memory, and the advice Susan would give to her younger self as a debut novelist.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we preview two new novels that are set in high school. Marion Winik shares her thoughts on Susan Choi's Trust Exercise and Ann Beattie's A Wonderful Stroke of Luck. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Excavating the hidden corners of the human heart and acclaimed for their ''nuance, psychological acuity, and pitch-perfect writing'' (Los Angeles Times), Susan Choi's novels include the Asian American Literary Award-winning The Foreign Student; American Woman, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize; A Person of Interest, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award; and My Education, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. A creative writing teacher at Yale, Choi has earned Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Trust Exercise follows a star-crossed suburban teen romance in a 1980s performing arts high school. Myla Goldberg is the author of the bestselling Bee Season, the story of a family's disintegration told through the lens of a young spelling prodigy. It was a New York Times Notable Book, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and was adapted into a film starring Richard Gere. Her other novels include The False Friend and Wickett's Remedy. Goldberg's new novel is a portrait of an ambitious 1950s-era photographer and mother formed through a collage of perspectives on the character's art and life. (recorded 5/2/2019)

Kurt Andersen talks with Susan Choi, whose engrossing new novel about on- and offstage drama at a performance arts high school is called “Trust Exercise.” How Edward Doyle-Gillespie ended up writing poetry about being a Baltimore cop. And This Woman’s Work, our new series in collaboration with Classic Album Sundays that highlights classic albums by female artists, kicks off with Patti Smith’s groundbreaking first album, “Horses.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kurt Andersen talks with Susan Choi, whose engrossing new novel about on- and offstage drama at a performance arts high school is called “Trust Exercise.” How Edward Doyle-Gillespie ended up writing poetry about being a Baltimore cop. And This Woman’s Work, our new series in collaboration with Classic Album Sundays that highlights classic albums by female artists, kicks off with Patti Smith’s groundbreaking first album, “Horses.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to Susan Choi’s inventive new novel, Trust Exercise, believe the hype. Set primarily at an exclusive performing arts high school in an unnamed southern city, it’s the story of a steamy, driver-license-less teen love affair … that morphs, via shocking shifts in perspective, into a profound interrogation of how personal mythologies - and perceptions of trauma and abuse - are written and rewritten over time. Choi joins us on this week’s episode for a deep dive into Trust Exercise, followed by our editors’ weekly book recommendations.

Susan Choi’s new novel, Trust Exercise, is a story about trust, betrayal, and the blurry lines between fiction and real life. It focuses on a group of teenagers at a performing arts high school in the 1980s and their fraught relationships with the eccentric teachers whom they idolize. The book takes a metafictional twist about halfway through, but Choi is loathe to describe it as such: “Don't use the M-word. Don't!”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susan Choi’s new novel, Trust Exercise, is a story about trust, betrayal, and the blurry lines between fiction and real life. It focuses on a group of teenagers at a performing arts high school in the 1980s and their fraught relationships with the eccentric teachers whom they idolize. The book takes a metafictional twist about halfway through, but Choi is loathe to describe it as such: “Don't use the M-word. Don't!”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the second special episode of the Sarah’s Book Shelves Live podcast…Spring 2019 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books! Catherine and I share our most anticipated books coming out in April and May of 2019. This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights Catherine and my success rate for books we shared in our Winter 2019 Preview episode. Our Best and Worst picks from the Winter 2019 Preview episode. Sarah’s theory about authors that get overly prolific. Each of our #1 picks for Spring. Spring 2019 Book Preview April Sarah’s Last Minute Audible: Like Lions by Brian Panowich (April 30)| Buy from Amazon [12:20] Sarah’s Picks: I’m Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagan (April 1) | Buy from Amazon [13:25] (UPDATE: I DNF’d this book at 58%) I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott (April 2) | Buy from Amazon [16:27] Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (April 9) | Buy from Amazon [22:18] (UPDATE: I DNF’d this book at 3%) Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis (April 16) | Buy from Amazon [26:28] Catherine’s Picks: The Spectators by Jennifer Dubois (April 2) | Buy from Amazon [14:57] Women Talking by Miriam Toews (April 2) | Buy from Amazon [20:23] The Ash Family by Molly Dektar (April 9) | Buy from Amazon [25:08] Normal People by Sally Rooney (April 16) | Buy from Amazon [29:41] (UPDATE: I’ve now read it and loved it! ADD RATING) May Sarah’s Picks: Furious Hours by Casey Cep (May 7) | Buy from Amazon [32:00] The Night Before by Wendy Walker (May 14) | Buy from Amazon [36:46] The Farm by Joanne Ramos (May 7) | Buy from Amazon [40:57] Out East by John Glenn (May 14) | Buy from Amazon [44:30] Catherine’s Picks: The Castle on Sunset by Shawn Levy (May 7) | Buy from Amazon [34:15] Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (May 14) | Buy from Amazon [39:01] Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane (May 14) | Buy from Amazon [43:10] Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin (May 21) | Buy from Amazon [47:24] Other Books Mentioned So, Here’s the Thing: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco | Buy from Amazon [2:35] The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [3:39] The Other Americans by Laila Lalami | Buy from Amazon [3:57] The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami | Buy from Amazon [4:28] Joy Enough by Sarah McColl | Buy from Amazon [5:27] I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella (February 5) | Buy from Amazon [7:10] A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [8:11] The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [8:11] Tiny Little Thing by Beatriz Williams (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [8:11] The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian | Buy from Amazon [8:31] Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian | Buy from Amazon [8:31] The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian | Buy from Amazon [8:45] The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [9:02] The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [8:31] Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [9:50] The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [10:11] The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer | Buy from Amazon [10:18] The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton | Buy from Amazon [10:50] The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish by Katya Apekina | Buy from Amazon [11:05] Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [12:01] The Line That Held Us by David Joy (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [12:48] Natchez Burning by Greg Isles (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [13:08] Forever is the Worst Long Time by Camille Pagan | Buy from Amazon [14:27] Cartwheel by Jennifer Dubois | Buy from Amazon [15:11] Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (My Review) | Buy from Amazon[16:09] Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen | Buy from Amazon [18:32] Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [18:32] A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [21:30] Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer | Buy from Amazon [22:00] If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [23:03] The Ensemble by Aja Gabel (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [23:03] Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday | Buy from Amazon [24:15] The Girls by Emma Cline (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [25:44] American Housewife by Helen Ellis (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [26:41] Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney | Buy from Amazon [30:11] The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [31:00] Foe by Iain Reid (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [31:30] In Cold Blood by Truman Capote | Buy from Amazon [32:18] Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt | Buy from Amazon [33:41] Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn | Buy from Amazon [37:09] Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [37:09] The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (My Quick Thoughts) | Buy from Amazon [39:56] The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [41:56] [42:29] An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [42:29] The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [42:29] The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [47:38] The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin | Buy from Amazon [49:44] Other Links Sarah’s Book Shelves Live Episode 1 with Georgia Hunter Parnassus Bookstore Tyler Goodson (manager at Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA) Annie Jones of From the Front Porch podcast Ashley Spivey Mary Laura Philpott on Instagram @nycbookgirl on Instagram Helen Ellis (author of Southern Lady Code) on Instagram (@americanhousewife) University Bookstore in Seattle S-Town Podcast About Catherine Gilmore Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Catherine started The Gilmore Guide to Books over 6 years ago after wrapping up a career as a corporate librarian. 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