In this bonus episode, we explain how the podcast got started, detail our plan to tackle the collection, and describe our personal taste in books. Once Kassia started listing her favorite NYRB books it was impossible to get her to stop. Hopefully the run of this podcast will be equally protracted.
References:Moby-Dick by Herman MelvilleVillette by Charlotte BronteThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonDanteHomerThe Silmarillion by J. R. R. TolkienIvy Compton-Burnett: A Memoir by Cicely GreigA House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-BurnettManservant and MaidservantOn the Origin of Species by Charles DarwinAnita BrooknerElizabeth TaylorSylvia Townsend WarnerThe Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone by Cao XueqinThe Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert BurtonThe Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013Geek Love by Katherine Dunn2666 by Roberto BolanoConversations with Beethoven by Sanford FriedmanThe Tenants of Moonbloom by Edward Lewis WallantThe Yacoubian Building by Alaa-Al-AswanyA Month in the Country by J. L. CarrFamily Lexicon by Natalia GinzburgPatrick Leigh FermorThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James HoggEileen ChangHenry GreenOlivia ManningLeonora CarringtonJourney by Moonlight by Antal SzerbDorothy BakerJessica MitfordNancy MitfordBarbara ComynsMuhammad by Maxime RodinsonSpeedboat by Renata AdlerThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArminEve BabitzThe Fountain Overflows by Rebecca WestRedsThomas BrownePrison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander BerkmanThe Life of Henry Brulard by StendhalShort Letter, Long Farewell by Peter Handke
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