Episode 65: The Underground Railroad | Exit West

This month on The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin by announcing the two patron-voted books which will be featured in the upcoming Patron's Choice episode in September. There is also some discussion of the recently announced Man Booker longlist because IAN WAS RIGHT and both the novels featured THIS month are on the list! Those novel are of course The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead [11:30] and Exit West by Mohsin Hamid [1:01:00].

For readers interested in spec-fic-skewed novels in a similar vein, Ian highly recommends the following:

• Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
• The Fractured Europe Sequence by Dave Hutchinson

If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:47:40 for brief final remarks. The books up for discussion on next month's Patron's Choice episode are:

• The Fisherman by John Langan
• By Light We Knew Our Names by Anne Valente

Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!