On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin with an admission: Ian was wrong! He got the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize wrong! He got the longlist for the National Book Award wrong! What is he even doing talking about literature at all? Nevertheless, the two books on the slab this month remain The Fisherman by John Langan [9:00] and By Light We Knew Our Names by Anne Valente [42:25].
If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:12:25 for brief final remarks. The books up for discussion next month's are two horror/dark novels:
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Episode 86: Little Eve | Light Perpetual
Episode 85: The Cost of Living | Dissolve
Episode 84.5: EXTRA
Episode 84: The Employees | Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
Episode 83: All the Fabulous Beasts | Cat Person and Other Stories
Episode 82: The Animals in That Country | Sorrowland
Episode 81: The Space Between Worlds | Mrs Death Misses Death
Episode 80: Memorial | The Mermaid of Black Conch
Episode 79: All the Murmuring Bones | Smart Ovens for Lonely People
Episode 78: Mammoth | Boy Swallows Universe
Episode 77: Finna | The Wandering
Episode 76: Beowulf | The Mere Wife
Episode 75: Growing Things | Let's Play White
Episode 74: Folk | The Liar's Dictionary
Episode 73: Mexican Gothic | The Only Good Indians
Episode 72: Weather | Hold
Episode 71: Flight Behavior | The Overstory
Episode 70: Skin | The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Episode 69: Quarantine Edition
Episode 68: How to Bee | In the Dark Spaces
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