Episode One Thirteen: Erin Somers

In This Episode:

Erin Somers stays up with the Damn Library to talk her new novel, Stay Up With Hugo Best. Everyone gets into phantasmagoric Late Night universe making, and then into how there's meaning in melancholy, and sometimes it's better to buckle down even when things aren't going right. And then they talk Dorothy Baker's Cassandra at the Wedding, and the melodrama, and the pianos, and the slapstick without slapstick comedy of it all. The best day of their lives!

The Ep. 113 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Costalegre by Courtney Maum // Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
Erin: Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin
Christopher: Good Talk by Mira Jacob

ALSO MENTIONED:

Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Touch by Courtney Maum
I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Mistress America (2015)
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Who is Rich? by Matthew Klam
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
After Claude by Iris Owens
All the Wrong Questions by Lemony Snicket

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Erin: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo // Jay McInerney’s Instagram
Christopher: Clyde Fans by Seth

The Damn Bar