Episode Thirty: Marie-Helene Bertino

In This Episode:
Marie-Helene Bertino joins the guys in the Damn Library to celebrate the season - the holiday season! - with hot buttered rum, singalongs, jazz music, her novel 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas, and a joint-favorite for the year: Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life.

Other highlights:
* three-part-harmony!
* Philadelphia: how do we feel about it
* turtles
* joy
* David Lynch
* Christmas presents!!

LISTEN:

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The Ep. 30 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Bookburners by Max Gladstone/Margaret Dunlap/Mur Lafferty/Brian Francis Slattery and The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies by Meg Whitford
Christopher: How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher
Marie: Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

ALSO MENTIONED:

The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
List of the Lost by Morrissey
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Shining by Stephen King
The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century

Marie's Spotify playlist for 2 A.M.
Marie's Spotify playlist for holidays at the Cat's Pajamas

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: US(a.) by Saul Williams // King Tuff
Christopher: The Bear by Claire Cameron // MASTER OF NONE
Marie: Raise Up Off Me by Hampton Hawes, Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhitorskaya, Minor Robberies by Deb Olin Unferth // John by Annie Baker // FARGO (season 2) // Courtney Barnett // Cléo from 5 to 7