Episode One Hundred and Two: Preti Taneja

In This Episode:

Preti Taneja stopped by the Damn Library on her way back home to the UK to talk We That Are Young. We of course talked Lear and adapting/translating Shakespeare, as well as Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, which brings up a whole conversation of lit in translation…

The Ep. 102 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, translated by Jonathan Wright

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders // Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Christopher: Homemade Liqueurs and Infused Spirits by Andrew Schloss
Preti: Essential Essays by Adrienne Rich

ALSO MENTIONED:

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Hogarth Shakespeare project
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Star Wars: Last Shot by Daniel José Older
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
”…Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me”

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Preti: Independent Bookstores!
Christopher: My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Drew: Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis // Succession (2018-present) // The Peter Owen World Series

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