Ep 16: Books About Art & the Booker Prize Longlist
Description
On this week’s bumper episode we cover the Booker Prize longlist before exploring some of our favourite fiction and non-fiction about art. We ask why books featuring artists seem to be so perennially popular and what is it about the artist’s life that keeps us coming back for more.
Book News
Love Forms by Claire Adam
The South by Tash Aw
Universality by Natasha Brown
One Boat by Jonathan Buckley
Flashlight by Susan Choi
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Endling by Maria Reva
Flesh by David Szalay
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Current Reads
Margo’s Got Money Trouble by Rufi Thorpe
The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin
Books About Art
The Original by Nell Stevens
The Artist by Lucy Steeds
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
My Friends by Hisham Matar
The Return by Hisham Matar
Alison by Lizzy Stewart
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt
Turn by Anne Truitt
Prospect by Anne Truitt
Wet Paint by Chloe Ashby
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
The Art Forger by Barbara Shapiro
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gaskill
‘Olympia’ and ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergère’ by Edouard Manet
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art
What We’re Reading Next
The Compound by Aisling Rawle
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Moderation by Elaine Castillo
America Is Not The Heart by Elaine Castillo
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