Whoops! We skipped a month. Consider it our summer vacation. But we’ve got a big one this episode.
Here’s the deal: if there is one book you should read this year it’s Brian Goldstone’s “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” The book is an incredible work of journalism as it “…follows five families in Atlanta as they struggle to find stable housing while navigating low-wage work, predatory landlords, a lack of tenant protections, and a system that prioritizes profit over people's basic need for a home.” We’re honored to have Brian on the pod with us to talk about his experience writing such an emotionally taxing work.
But first: James Joyce’s love for farts.
Intro:
Olga Tokarczuk - The Empusium
Joyce Carol Oates - Fox
V.E. Schwab - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
S.A. Cosby - King of Ashes
Jess Walter - So Far Gone
Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins
JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Series
James Joyce - The Selected Letters of James Joyce
Brian Goldstone - There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
Hugh Raffles - The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Adrian Nicole Leblanc - Random Family
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Matthew Desmond
Rachel Aviv
Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed
Peter Rossi- Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness
Ezra Klein - Abundance
Toni Morrison - The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
