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.

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