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

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