Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.
BOOKS NEWS:
Romance Writers of America Controversy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/08/romance-writers-america-cancels-awards-program-writer-racism-controversy/
Booker Prize Judges Announced
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51018138
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Announced January 30, 2020
http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html?smid=fb-nytbooks&smtyp=cur
Margaret Atwood in New Zealand
https://margaretatwoodlive.com.au/
BOOK REVIEWS:
KD:
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk
Weather by Jenny Offill
JT:
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
LK:
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
NOT BOOKS:
KD:
Desert Island Dishes podcast
https://www.desertislanddishes.co/
Missing Richard Simmons podcast
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/missing-richard-simmons/e/49137432
JT:
The Casketeers
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/the-casketeers
Bachelor US
LK:
Cats
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/21/cats-review-tom-hooper-taylor-swift-judi-dench-idris-elba-jennifer-hudson-ian-mckellen
THE TBR PILE:
KD:
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride
Actress by Anne Enright
At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Heath Ladies' Pond by v/a
We Are Made of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner
JT:
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
LK:
All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Completely Perfect by Felicity Cloake
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