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...

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