Episode Forty-Seven: Backlist: Donna Tartt

In This Episode:

A long-mooted look back - and hopefully the beginnings of a recurring episode type! After literally years of thinking about it, the guys read Donna Tartt's second novel The Little Friend and talk about completism, overlooked books, and what it means to love an author.

Other highlights:

* Boy is it hot.
* Lots of Hamilton references. Or at least several.
* The best elevator pitch you've ever heard.
* Somehow the whole ep goes by without anybody mentioning Bret Easton Ellis!

LISTEN:

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The Ep. 47 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOK:

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Alex Gilvarry
Christopher: 1776 by David McCullough, Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, and Manson by Jeff Guinn

ALSO MENTIONED:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
Donnybrook by Frank Bill
Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Fences by August Wilson

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer
Christopher: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates