Episode Sixty-Three: #ToB17 Wrap-Up
In This Episode:
Nozlee Samadzadeh-Hadidi, producer of The Tournament of Books for The Morning News, drops by the Damn Library to help wrap up this year's tournament with Christopher and Drew. Drinks are drunk, ancient history is drudged up, least favorites are spilled, and Nozlee even explains how she edits judgments for spoilers when she hasn't read the books.
Other Highlights:
* Drew is led astray by Will Chancellor
* Christopher named the drink after Nozlee!
* #ToB17: one for the history books
* get it? the history books? because the final was The Underground Railroad over Homegoing?
* The bet concludes. Drew wins, again.
LISTEN:
THE EP. 63 BOOKSHELF
(CONTAINING ALL THE BOOKS DISCUSSED WHILE RECORDING)
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Drew: John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead & Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
Christopher: The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Nozlee: The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
ALSO MENTIONED:
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Version Control by Dexter Palmer
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor
To Test the Meaning of Certain Dreams by Will Chancellor
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
The Nix by Nathan Hill
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Next by James Hynes
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
HHhH by Laurence Binet
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
The Accidental by Ali Smith
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
RECOMMENDATIONS for #ToB18:
Drew: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Christopher: Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
Nozlee: The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman & The Power by Naomi Alderman
