249: Erin Somers (THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR) & Susie Boyt's LOVED AND MISSED
In This Episode:
Erin Somers returns to the Damn Library, this time virtually, for a punny cocktail and a chat about her novel The Ten Year Affair, expanding her lens, millennial marriage, and how she feels about her debut novel Stay Up with Hugo Best six years on. Plus she brings the quietly devastating/sardonically funny Susie Boyt’s Loved and Missed.
THE EP. 249 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Erin: Flesh by David Szalay, On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle
Christopher: Waiting for Britney by Jeff Weiss, Creep by Emma van Straaten
ALSO MENTIONED:
Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix, 2017)
”The Ten Year Affair” short story version (Joyland)
Sliding Doors (dir. Peter Howitt, 1998)
Counterlife by Phillip Roth
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Swimmer by John Cheever
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
All Fours by Miranda July
Mr. Difficult, a podcast about Jonathan Franzen
Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers
Non-Fiction by Julie Myerson
Mad Men (AMC, 2007)
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Simpsons (Fox, 1989)
Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941)
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Erin: One Battle After Another (dir. P.T. Anderson), Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor
Christopher: Julius, Julius by Aurora Stewart de Peña
