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Load up your TBR pile with some excellent reading recommendations from the Papercuts team. Books reviewed this episode: KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw and We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida LK: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler JT: No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood Not books: KD: We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida. LK: The Sopranos on Neon; Obscure Season 2: Frankenstein  JT: The Casketeers season 4 on TVNZ The TBR Pile: KD: Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly, Foghorn’s Lament by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Animal by Lisa Taddeo, Times Like These by Michelle Langstone, My Rock & Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn  LK: The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz; Times Like These by Michelle Langstone JT: The Believers by Sarah Krasnostein, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones, My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee, Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, Luster by Raven Leilani, How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell This is the final episode of Papercuts – for now! We’ll be taking a hiatus from your feeds while we plot our next move. Thank you so much to our listeners, our producer Tina and The Spinoff Podcast Network! Keep in touch:  Email: papercutspod@gmail.com Twitter: @papercutspod Instagram: @papercutspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the most exciting time of the year in the New Zealand book world as the Ockham New Zealand Book Award longlist has just been announced. We also have a line up of three New Zealand books for review and have a wee look at what’s on the reading pile and coming out in 2021. Mentioned in this episode... Books KD: Gangland by Jared Savage, with a mention of Patched by Jarrod Gilbert (HarperCollins NZ) Mary Holm on RNZ’s Bookmarks Gyles Beckford on RNZ’s Bookmarks LK:Victory Park by Rachel Kerr (Makaro Press) Kiran’s interview with Rachel for the NZ Herald. JT: Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey (VUP) Not Books KD: Michael Apted’s Seven Up series  LK: What Writers and Editors Do by Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Paris Review blog JT: Bling Empire and Pretend it’s a City (both Netflix) The TBR Pile KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw, A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion, Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner, The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong LK: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald, with a mention of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith JT: Remaining Ockham fiction longlist to read: Bug Week by Airini Beautrais and Toto Among the Murderers by Sally Morgan Book News The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist is announced The 2021 samesame but different festival will run from February 10 - 14 in the Ellen Melville Centre The Rathbones Folio Prize Longlist has been announced! Some great reads to add to your pile, including ol’ Shuggie Bain Get in touch with Papercuts Email: papercutspod@gmail.com Tweet: @papercutspod Instagram: @papercutspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Representing Gone By Lunchtime, Dietary Requirements, The Real Pod, Papercuts, The Fold and On The Rag our hosts dive into the key events, issues, heroes and villains of 2020. From National’s botched election campaign to Ben Thomas’ take on TikTok, via the collapse of Bauer, the rise of oat milk, with a detour through controversial frozen grapes and Simon’s Sausage Spot, there’s something for everyone in this year’s Superpod. Featuring special guests producer T and Covid-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The gang are back with their usual witches brew of book news, insightful book reviews and discussions, not-book reviews and their dangerously teetering TBR piles. Books reviewed this episode: KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador/Grove Atlantic) LK: Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt Books) JT: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (Granta) Not books: KD: Magazines are back! Welcome back Metro and North & South LK: Season Two of His Dark Materials and Daisy Johnson’s horror fiction recommendations. JT: Chris Parker’s This is How I Felt The TBR Pile: KD: 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the 2021 Ockhams and books from a Fitzcarraldo Editions subscription LK: White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi and The Residents by Lucy Revill JT: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar and Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey Book news: Shuggie Bain won the Booker Prize!  The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison won the Goldsmith Prize! A book about the bloody Beatles has won the Baillie Gifford Prize!  The National Book Awards 2020 winners have been announced! Also mentioned: A scathing review of Dolly Alderton’s novel Ghosts An excellent Guardian interview with Brandon Taylor The High Low podcast is drawing to an end Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Papercuts gals are back to help you navigate the huge flood of incredible books that were delayed by Covid-19 and are now finally available for your reading pleasure. We also bring you our usual winning formula: a hot scoop of book industry news, our insightful book reviews and discussions, our not-book reviews and our dangerously teetering TBR piles. Come up the Papercuts lab and see what’s on the slab! Books reviewed this episode: KD: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Summerwater by Sarah Moss and Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan LK: Sisters by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape) & Nothing to See by Pip Adam (VUP) JT: Deep Work by Cal Newport (Little & Brown) Not books: KD: Gloss on YouTube LK: The Great on Neon JT: Origins on TVNZ The TBR Pile: KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador) and Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt) and 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the Ockhams! LK: The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemison (Orbit), The Swimmers by Chloe Lane (VUP), Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence and Gibson) JT: Tree of Strangers by Barbara Sumner (MUP), Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape), Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Bloomsbury) Book news: The NZ Children’s and Young Adults Book Awards were held on 12th August. Congratulations to all the winners, especially Selina Tusitala Marsh, whose first children’s book Mophead (AUP) won Margaret Mahy Book of the Year. Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Hamnet (Tinder Press). Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the International Booker Prize for their debut novel The Discomfort of Evening (trans by Michele Hutchinson, Faber). The Booker Prize 2020 shortlist has been announced! There’s no Hilary Mantel, and it’s the most diverse shortlist ever! Lineups for WORD (28 October–1 November), VERB (6–8 November 2020) and YARNS IN BARNS ( 8–18th October) have been announced – get amongst!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Papercuts team are finally back in The Spinoff studio this month with their usual winning recipe of book news, book recommendations, not books and their ever-growing ‘TBR’ piles. They anticipate the announcements of some big book prizes, deep dive into a hugely entertaining book about the apocalypse, the new Ottessa Moshfegh (Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation), and how reading BWB Texts will make you much smarter. This month's ‘Not Books’ recommendations include Hollywood gossip, Drag Race and getting back to our Baby-Sitters Club roots on Netflix. Books reviewed KD: Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O’Connell (Granta); Funny Weather by Olivia Laing (Picador) LK: Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape) JT: Imagining Colonisation by Rebecca Kiddle, Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson, Ocean Mercier, Mike Ross, Jennie Smeaton, Amanda Thomas (BWB Text); Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End by Ranginui Walter (Penguin NZ) Not books KD: Last Picture Show via You Must Remember This Polly Platt podcast LK: Canada’s Drag Race, Race Chaser & The Chop podcasts; Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger JT: The Baby-sitters Club & The Claudia Kishi Club on Netflix; AGC Gossip The TBR Pile KD: The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun (Serpents Tail); Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence & Gibson); Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan (White Rabbit); Rat King Landlord by Murdoch Stevens (Lawrence & Gibson) LK: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; Pachinko by Min Jin Lee; Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin JT: Sigrid Nunez’s What are you Going Through; Carson McCullers’ Member of the Wedding; Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House) Book news links The Booker Longlist will be announced tomorrow The International Book Awards Winners have been announced NZ Children’s and Young Adult Book Awards are being held virtually on the 12th of August, keep updated here Two new bookstores are opening in New Zealand! Bay Hill Books is open in Timaru and Good Books opens in Wellington soon. Kiran’s interview with Mark O’Connell on The Spinoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Book news Ockham results Congratulations to all the winning and shortlisted authors, and especially to Becky Manwatu for her sweep of Best First Fiction and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series  Watch live via the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website. WORD Christchurch now running October 30 - 1 November They need your help to stage this year's festival! WORD is a charitable trust, and it's now easier than ever to donate. More information here.  VERB Wellington confirmed for 6-8 November, with Litcrawl on 7 November NZ Bookstores experiencing boom in Level 2 - Guardian article  The price of literature: writers take on Government over fair pay by Kelly Dennett "This proposition that writers just do their work for love is a scurrilous attack on the integrity of all authors," says Dame Fiona Kidman. Book reviews  KD: A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen (Fitzcarraldo Editions) LK: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Penguin) JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman Books) Not books KD: Los Angeles is Burning by Anna Rankin on Newsroom  LK: The Good Place on Netflix and The Wondrous Adventures of Mittens  JT:  Nat’s What I Reckon on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Book news Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist -- the Prize’s 25th year. The shortlist was announced on the Women’s Prize for Fiction social channels: Dominicana by Angie Cruz Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell Weather by Jenny Offill #BookshopsAreBack!! Newsroom has a list of retailers around the country. Ockhams Out Loud The 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards was to be the first event of Festival week and will now be broadcast via the #theockhams YouTube channel. In the lead up over the next few weeks, you can listen to each of the finalists reading from their shortlisted work, with one added each day until the winners are announced at the online ceremony on the evening of Tuesday 12 May. Take a look, and subscribe for updates. Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series Includes Bernardine Evaristo, Lisa Taddeo, Amy McDaid, Anthony Byrt and more. 9am on May 3rd and running live once a week for 13 weeks. Three writers including at least two from the 2020 programme will chat with series host Paula Morris, read from their work and answer audience questions. Watch via live the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website. BookBound 2020 An 'antiviral' online literary festival, already in progress until 3 May 2020. Includes a number of New Zealand authors, including Freya Daly Sadgrove, Pip Adam Becky Manawatu & Renée, who join literary talent such as Max Porter and Emma Glass from around the world. The festival is raising money for a number of charities, and events are free on the BookBound 2020 YouTube channel Verb Community Verb Community members will ensure artists are paid for their work, help create content and experiences and lots of other good stuff. In return, they'll get access to the Verb Community hui where you can feed your ideas into what they do, discounts on ticketed events and festival sessions, and again lots of other good stuff! They launch alongside three new pieces of writing by Sinead Overbye (a reading list on love in isolation), Victor Rodger (love and quite a bit of sex), and essa may ranapiri (gender and language). Book reviews KD: White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer LK: Torpor by Chris Kraus JT: Aue by Becky Manawatu Not books KD: Record shops! LK: Home Cooking: a podcast from Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway to help you figure out what to cook (and keep you company) during the quarantine. Thanks to Papercuts listener David for the recommendation! Circus of Books on Netflix -- the charming and sometimes heartbreaking story of a middle-class Jewish family who ran a hardcore gay porn bookstore from the eighties up till the time of filming. JT: Brideshead Revisited (1981 TV series) The TBR Pile KD: In the Fold and The Temporary by Rachel Cusk, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing LK: You'll enjoy it when you get there: the stories of Elizabeth Taylor, I'm working on a building by Pip Adam, Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno, Fake Baby by Amy McDaid (out June) JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman), Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino (4th Estate). Tennis Lessons by Susannah Dickey (DD) Also mentioned: Green Girl by Kate... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.   Well, we've all said we wish we had more time to read and now we've got what we wished for. Jenna, Kiran and Louisa delve into some book news (that's not too heavy for our weary heads), book reviews, not books and to be read piles. Tune in, switch your brain off and start making some notes for your upcoming, post-quarantine reads. Remember to wait for your local to open again! #bookshopswillbeback #waitforyourbookshop Book news How the NZ book scene is reaching people while we are under lockdown. https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/29-03-2020/how-the-nz-books-scene-is-pivoting-in-response-to-covid-19/ Which includes microbiologist extraordinaire Siouxsie Wiles’ tips on lending books during lockdown: “If you are sharing or borrowing hard copy books outside of your bubble you might want to quarantine them for three days before getting stuck in.” The Ockham Book Awards: Kiran is an Ockham Fiction Champion http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/2020-awards/shortlist/ Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, tr. Frank Wynne (Fitzcarraldo Editions) has won the Republic of Consciousness 2020 Prize https://www.republicofconsciousness.com/the-conch/2020/2/11/republic-of-consciousness-class-of-2020-animalia-by-jean-baptiste-del-amo-tr-frank-wynne-fitzcarraldo-editions   Book reviews KD: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (Canongate) with link to new Guardian article about art in an emergency and her forthcoming book Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing is published in April (ish) by Picador https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/21/feeling-overwhelmed-how-art-can-help-in-an-emergency-by-olivia-laing two other soothing books I’d like to recommend for lockdown are Wanderlust and Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. LK: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking / Samin Nosrat. JT: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne (Text) Not books KD: Nathan for You: Finding Frances LK: The Spinoff’s The Real Pod - RIP JT: Chris Parker’s Felt Animals, Sarah Laing’s Quarantine Comics and Yoga with Adriene. Zumba link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shUjcUcgk5M   The TBR Pile KD: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell, The Willd Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes, Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, Specimen by Madison Hamill, Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (60 pages away from finishing), A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux LK: Don't go to sleep in the dark / Celia Fremlin. Torpor / Chris Kraus. Postcards from the edge / Carrie Fisher. Untold night and day / Bae Suah ; translated from the Korean by Deborah... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. It's February and our latest episode is packed to the gills. We chat trigger warnings, American Dirt, festivals, movies, poetry and of course, have our usual book reviews and TBR piles. Tune in! Book news AWF Programme is out on the evening of 11th March Ockham Shortlist is out on March 4th. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED LISTEN: Digging into American Dirt pod: From four perspectives. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800964001/digging-into-american-dirt Patti Smith helps Portland bookshop after break in. The 2020 NZ Festival of the Arts starts this week, 21 Feb – 15th March 2020. https://www.festival.nz/https://www.festival.nz/events/writers Writers programme including KD’s session with Booker International Prize Winner Jokha Alharthi https://www.festival.nz/events/all/writing-womens-lives/ and Alharthi and Rijula Das Book reviews KD: Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride, Rest and be thankful by Emma Glass. LK: Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman JT: Head Girl by Freya Daly Sadgrove (with a mention of As the Verb Tenses by Lynley Edmeades), In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Not books KD: Three Women by Robert Altman LK: Next in Fashion on Netflix JT: Emma. The TBR Pile KD: The Undying by Anne Boyer, Out of the Woods by Luke Turner, LK: Middlemarch by George Eliot, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill JT: Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey, Burn the Place by Illana Regan, Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (in preparation for the June release of The Lying Life of Adults), 2000f Above Worry Level by Eamonn Marra.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.   BOOKS NEWS: Romance Writers of America Controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/08/romance-writers-america-cancels-awards-program-writer-racism-controversy/ Booker Prize Judges Announced https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51018138 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Announced January 30, 2020 http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation has died https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html?smid=fb-nytbooks&smtyp=cur Margaret Atwood in New Zealand https://margaretatwoodlive.com.au/   BOOK REVIEWS: KD: Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk Weather by Jenny Offill JT: The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid LK: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin NOT BOOKS: KD: Desert Island Dishes podcast https://www.desertislanddishes.co/ Missing Richard Simmons podcast https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/missing-richard-simmons/e/49137432 JT: The Casketeers https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/the-casketeers Bachelor US LK: Cats https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/21/cats-review-tom-hooper-taylor-swift-judi-dench-idris-elba-jennifer-hudson-ian-mckellen THE TBR PILE: KD: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride Actress by Anne Enright At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Heath Ladies' Pond by v/a We Are Made of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner JT: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen LK: All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Speedboat by Renata Adler Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill Completely Perfect by Felicity Cloake Obscure podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join various hosts of The Spinoff podcasts Gone by Lunchtime, On The Rag, The Real Pod, Paper Cuts, The Offspin, and Dietary Requirements as we look back at the car crash that was 2019. In this special end of year podcast hosted by Leonie Hayden, we dissect the country's response to national disasters, the highs and lows of MAFS, international literary scandals, the madness and tragedy of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Mad Chapman's Pulitzer Prize-winning chip ranking and more, plus we add our entries to the official The Spinoff 2019 Honours and Dishonours board. Pour yourself a Baileys and settle in. Check out more of our podcasts here including the pop up pod The Spinoff Book Out Loud (The Spinoff Book is available in stores now). If you want to continue to support the work we do, behind the mic or on the site, check out The Spinoff Members, where you can support independent media for as a little as a dollar a week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. Band on the Run Can you believe this is our final episode for 2019? In this episode we give a scene report from the first Papercuts band-on-tour field trip where we headed to Wellington for the Verb Festival. And we bring you more book news, book reviews, discuss what we are looking forward to reading over summer, and more! Settle in with Jenna, Kiran and Louisa. Thank you to everyone who has listened to Papercuts, we have loved having you with us and will be back in 2020! BOOK NEWS: New Zealand Festival of the Arts - Writers programme - From Laurie Anderson and Andrea Lawlor to Jokha Alharthi and Tommy Orange - there is so much we want to see! https://www.festival.nz/events/writers/ Kiran's session with Booker International Prize winner Jokha Alharthi and Wellington writer Rijula Das Writing Women's Lives https://www.festival.nz/events/all/writing-womens-lives/ Goldsmiths Prize Winner: Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellman (Galley Beggar Press/Text Publishing) https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/prize2019/ducks-newburyport/ National Book Award winners https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/20/national-book-awards-susan-choi-wins-fiction-award-for-trust-exercise The Spinoff Book has been launched! https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-11-2019/its-alive-the-spinoff-book-is-published-today/ Sinead Gleeson wins award Bookselling Ireland Non Fiction Book of the Year 2019 at the An Post Irish Book Awards for her collection of essays Constellations. https://www.irishbookawards.irish/award/bookselling-ireland-non-fiction-book-of-the-year-2019/ As promised, a link to Kiran's NZ Herald interview with Sinead Gleeson. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12281683 And, as promised last episode, a link to Kiran's piece for The Spinoff about lathe cuts! https://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/objectspace/objectspace-2019/03-11-2019/the-back-country-record-cutter-putting-new-zealand-music-on-plastic/ BOOK REVIEWS: KD: The Maytrees by Annie Dillard LK: The Boyfriend by Laura Southgate JT: The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson NOT BOOKS: KD/JT: Dolly Parton's America (Radiolab podcast) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/radiolab-presents-dolly-partons-america LK: His Dark Materials series - An HBO and BBC... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. After a few extra weeks off, Papercuts are back to chat the controversial Booker decision, NZ Bookshop Day, the Goldsmith shortlist & some exciting upcoming author events! Book reviews and to be read piles are all divulged as well as some not books too. Settle in with Jenna, Kiran and Louisa - we love your support! Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Show notes are below: Book news Joint winners of the Booker Prize 2019: - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. - Article by Galley Beggar Press: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/what-happened-booker-prize-ellmann/ - New Zealand Bookshop Day is THIS Saturday 26 October https://www.booksellers.co.nz/whats-on - Goldsmiths Shortlist https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/ - Zadie Smith - Wednesday 13th November James Hay Theatre https://wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/an-evening-with-zadie-smith/- - Patti Smith is coming to Christchurch and Auckland https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/16550/Patti-Smith-New-Zealand-Shows-Announced.utr - Verb Wellington's Litcrawl: https://www.verbwellington.nz/ Congrats to the winner of Inland by Tea Obreht: Ali Horsley! Thank you to Hachette for making this happen! Book reviews LK: Scented by Laurence Fearnley - https://www.fragrantica.com/ - Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser JT: The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine - Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell KD: The Country Life by Rachel Cusk - Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas - The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy Online picks LK: The Age of Rudeness by Rachel Cusk for the New York Times KD:‘A Short Run: A Selection of NZ Lathe Cut Records’ at Objectspace JT: ‘Downtime’ on iphone (in settings/screentime) The TBR Pile KD: Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt Outlier by Rachel Cusk Patience by Toby Lit Face it by Debbie Harry The River Capture by Mary Costello Sinead Gleeson Actress by Anne Enright LK: The Boyfriend by Laura Southgate Green Book and Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno The Address by Fiona Davis Call Me Evie by J. P. Pomare JT: A Sharp Left Turn by Mike Chunn Rich Enough? by Mary Holm Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman Thank you Alice for recording and the Matatuhi Foundation for your support. Follow us on Instagram: @papercutspod and email us! papercutspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. On this month’s Papercuts, Jenna, Kiran and Louisa hold experiment to see what it is like to drink a bottle of prosecco whilst recording. We observe the Booker Longlist, delve into bunch of NZ trade news - including the NZ Booksellers Conference, Industry Awards and Coalition for Books. As always, we review what we’ve been reading and chat about what’s on the reading pile too. Settle in! Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Links: Booker Prize longlist https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/24/not-read-them-yet-a-cheats-guide-to-the-2019-booker-prize-longlist https://www.thebookseller.com/news/booker-tightlipped-amid-speculation-lee-child-will-judge-2020-prize-1064066 Going West https://www.goingwestfest.co.nz/ The Coalition for Books https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018708671&fbclid=IwAR16skideVZlWx_XlDaAgQlawBTuZffm2r52W5XaHLmqM6j4-_aFvowQskU https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018710299/the-coalition-for-books-is-launched 2019 Book Trade Industry Awards https://www.booksellers.co.nz/news/community-bookshop-wins-owners-lifetime-achievement-award Obama’s annual summer reading list: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/books/obama-summer-reading.html https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018710752/reform-school-horror-colson-whitehead Fully Booked Podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/fully-booked-by/susan-choi-F_Py8TgIShp/ Fame music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMmquNLnHg Margaret Atwood Live in Cinemas: https://www.thecapitol.co.nz/movie/margaret-atwood-live-in-cinemas Linda Burgess in conversation with KD https://www.timeout.co.nz/upcoming-events/f53kgsjnac4p93hdwgr9hdl88hx7hj Books: Lanny by Max Porter Capital by John Lanchester The Wall by John Lanchester Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry Inland by Tea Obreht The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Guestbook - Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton Trust Exercise by... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we give advice on how to tackle the ever growing tower that is the 'To Be Read' pile, discuss a recent release that didn't quite hit the spot, and bring you our usual book reviews and raves.  As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST: Book News An Evening with Arundhati Roy http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/videos/Page1/an-evening-with-arundhati-roy-2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults  http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults KD's interview with Tracey Thorn for Canvas, NZ Herald https://www.nzherald.co.nz/canvas-magazine/news/article.cfm?c_id=532&objectid=12248811 Book Reviews LK The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Fourth Estate) JT Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza (Harvill Secker)  JT/KD Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (Bloomsbury) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/three-women-lisa-taddeo-review-sex-vampire-fantasy-sex-traumatic/ KD Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth (Canongate) https://www.nziff.co.nz/2019/auckland/animals/ Murmur by Will Eaves (Canongate) Not Books JT Euphoria (HBO) Blown Away (Netflix) KD Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky https://www.nziff.co.nz/2019/auckland/andrei-rublev/ LK RuPaul: What's the Tee?  http://www.rupaulpodcast.com/ The TBR Pile JT Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (Bloomsbury, September) The Porpoise by Mark Haddon (Penguin) LK Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria (Melville House) Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (Faber) KD Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens (Picador) Coventry by Rachel Cusk (Faber, October) Also mentioned My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy  Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn Withnail and I https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/nov/14/favourite-film-withnail-and-i In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Furious Hours by Casey Cep The Long... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod and a big thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Book News AWF's An Evening with Arundhati Roy - 17th July http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/news/Page1/an-evening-with-arundhati-roy/   PANZ Book Design Awards - 25th July http://www.bookdesignawards.co.nz/2019-shortlist/  Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 An American Marriage - Tayari Jones Faber & Faber: The Untold Story - Toby Faber https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12237604  AWF Podcast  http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/podcasts/Page3/renee-a-writing-life/   Book Reviews Jenna - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharti - Winner of the 2019 International Booker Prize Kiran - The Years by Annie Ernaux (with a mention of Saltwater by Jessica Andrews) Louisa - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Not Books Jenna - Chernobyl (HBO) Kiran - Hildur Guðnadóttir and Chris Watson (composer & field recorder for Chernobyl)  Louisa - The Lunatics (Netflix) The TBR Pile Jenna - The Years by Annie Ernaux, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Furious Hours by Casey Cep Kiran - The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy (August), Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine, Being Various ed. by Lucy Caldwell Louisa - Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld Louisa and Jenna visited Browsers Secondhand Bookstore in Hamilton. Thank you to The Spinoff, Tina and the Matatuhi Foundaton.  Twitter: papercutspod Instagram: papercutspod Email: papercutspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Papercuts: An Auckland Writers Festival Report.  A VERY SPECIAL podcast, where we say the words VERY SPECIAL many times.   Papercuts report from the ground at the Auckland Writers Festival 2019, where a record breaking 82,000 seats were filled over seven days of literary goodness. Jenna, Louisa & Kiran interview Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize winner Dame Fiona Kidman, Pulitzer Prize winning Andrew Sean Greer and the incredible and probably soon-to-be prize winning Elaine Castillo. We also break down the Ockham Book Awards, the Festival Gala, Douglas Coupland, Literally Lorne, Kamila Shamsie, Chessie Henry, Jill Abramson, Alexander Chee, Shayne Carter, Carla Guelfenbein, we attend two book launches and drink a lot of wine.   Thank you to Anne & the Auckland Writers Festival team for having us, 2019 Voyager Media Awards Website of the Year - The Spinoff and of course, The Mātātuhi Foundation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Book News: Dunedin Writers Readers Festival Verb Wellington VOLUME Mapua Literary Festival WORD Christchurch - including Shayne Carter with Rachael King Women’s Prize Shortlist 2019 Kiran's sesson at AWF - ELAINE CASTILLO: America is Not the Heart Kiran's review of Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter Unity Book of the Month: Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin Book reviews: LK: All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg JT: Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokaczuk KD: Constellations: Reflections from Life by Sinead Gleeson with mentions of The Years by Annie Ernaux Dept. of Speculation and Last Things by Jenny Offill Steven Toussaint's piece on The Spinoff Books Page: TMI: An Essay on Contemporary Poetry in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Not books: LK: Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast JT: The Worst Sitcom Ever Made - RNZ Podcast KD: Auckland Film Society TBR Piles: LK: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, Circe by Madeline Miller. JT: My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, Attraction by Ruby Porter, Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. KD: Attraction by Ruby Porter, Saltwater by Jessica Andrews, Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine, The Lark Ascending by Richard King, Underland by Robert McFarlane, How to Fail by Elizabeth Day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. In this episode we have a special guest! Anne O'Brien, director of the Auckland Writers FestivalWaituhi O Tāmakijoins us to discuss what punters can expect at New Zealand's largest annual festival of ideas and literature. We look at the Ockham Book Awards shortlist, explore the bizarre story of "world class scam artist" Elizabeth Holmes, and bring you our usual book reviews and raves.   As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod   Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices