In the height of Prize Season, Amanda and Joseph are back with a bumper episode asking what all the hullabaloo is about - how are prizes judged and awarded, and are the winners worth our time? Plus, they talk about Amanda’s recent trip to the Women’s Prize ceremony, and as always, what they’ve been reading recently and what they hope to pick up next.
Bookish News
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams @sarahww_
Women’s Prize Live and other events
Felicity Blunt @thebluntoffice
Laura Wade
Katherine Parkinson @parkinson.katherine
Field Work as a Sex Object by Meena Kadasamy @k.a.n.d.a.s.a.m.y
Rapture by Emily Maguire @emilymaguirewriter
These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany @salmaelwardany
The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet @lyse.doucet
The Correspondent by Virgina Evans @virginia.l.evans
Dominion by Addie E. Kitchens @addie_citchens
The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson @marxia1
Recent Reads
Air by Christian Kracht
Eurotrash by Christian Kracht
Imperium by Christian Kracht
You With the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate @christinapplegate
Prizes and Prize-Worthy Recommendations
The Nobel Prize for Literature
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Milkman by Anna Burns
‘The Hemingway Veto’ and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Riders In The Chariot by Patrick White
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Martyr by Kaveh Akbar @kavehakbar.kavehakbar
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Trust by Hernan Diaz
What We’re Reading Next
The Beautiful Ones by Prince and Dan Piepenbring
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout @lizstroutauthor
Also mentioned
Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio
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