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Load up your TBR pile with some excellent reading recommendations from the Papercuts team.
Books reviewed this episode:
KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw and We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
LK: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
JT: No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
Not books:
KD: We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida.
LK: The Sopranos on Neon; Obscure Season 2: Frankenstein
JT: The Casketeers season 4 on TVNZ
The TBR Pile:
KD: Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly, Foghorn’s Lament by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Animal by Lisa Taddeo, Times Like These by Michelle Langstone, My Rock & Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
LK: The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz; Times Like These by Michelle Langstone
JT:The Believers by Sarah Krasnostein, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones, My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee, Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, Luster by Raven Leilani, How to Murder Your Lifeby Cat Marnell
This is the final episode of Papercuts – for now! We’ll be taking a hiatus from your feeds while we plot our next move. Thank you so much to our listeners, our producer Tina and The Spinoff Podcast Network!
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Sit back, relax and let Jenna, Kiran and Louisa tempt you with the best new books to add to your reading pile.
It’s the most exciting time of the year in the New Zealand book world as the Ockham New Zealand Book Award longlist has just been announced. We also have a line up of three New Zealand books for review and have a wee look at what’s on the reading pile and coming out in 2021.
Mentioned in this episode...
Books
KD: Gangland by Jared Savage, with a mention of Patched by Jarrod Gilbert (HarperCollins NZ)
Mary Holm on RNZ’s Bookmarks
Gyles Beckford on RNZ’s Bookmarks
LK:Victory Park by Rachel Kerr (Makaro Press)
Kiran’s interview with Rachel for the NZ Herald.
JT: Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey (VUP)
Not Books
KD: Michael Apted’s Seven Up series
LK: What Writers and Editors Do by Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Paris Review blog
JT: Bling Empire and Pretend it’s a City (both Netflix)
The TBR Pile
KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw, A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion, Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner, The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong
LK: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald, with a mention of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
JT: Remaining Ockham fiction longlist to read: Bug Week by Airini Beautrais and Toto Among the Murderers by Sally Morgan
Book News
- The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist is announced
- The 2021 samesame but different festival will run from February 10 - 14 in the Ellen Melville Centre
- The Rathbones Folio Prize Longlist has been announced! Some great reads to add to your pile, including ol’ Shuggie Bain
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Pour yourself some eggnog and join the hosts of The Spinoff’s podcast network for our annual Superpod round up of the year that was.
Representing Gone By Lunchtime, Dietary Requirements, The Real Pod, Papercuts, The Fold and On The Rag our hosts dive into the key events, issues, heroes and villains of 2020.
From National’s botched election campaign to Ben Thomas’ take on TikTok, via the collapse of Bauer, the rise of oat milk, with a detour through controversial frozen grapes and Simon’s Sausage Spot, there’s something for everyone in this year’s Superpod. Featuring special guests producer T and Covid-19.
Welcome to Papercuts - the podcast all about books! Sit back, relax and let Jenna, Kiran and Louisa tempt you with the best new titles to add to your book stack.
The gang are back with their usual witches brew of book news, insightful book reviews and discussions, not-book reviews and their dangerously teetering TBR piles.
Books reviewed this episode:
KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador/Grove Atlantic)
LK: Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt Books)
JT: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (Granta)
Not books:
KD: Magazines are back! Welcome back Metro and North & South
LK: Season Two of His Dark Materials and Daisy Johnson’s horror fiction recommendations.
JT: Chris Parker’s This is How I Felt
The TBR Pile:
KD: 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the 2021 Ockhams and books from a Fitzcarraldo Editions subscription
LK: White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi and The Residents by Lucy Revill
JT:Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar and Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
Book news:
Shuggie Bain won the Booker Prize!
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison won the Goldsmith Prize!
A book about the bloody Beatles has won the Baillie Gifford Prize!
The National Book Awards 2020 winners have been announced!
Also mentioned:
A scathing review of Dolly Alderton’s novel Ghosts
An excellent Guardian interview with Brandon Taylor
The High Low podcast is drawing to an end
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Nau mai ki ngā Pepakati – te pakihere rokiroki o ngā pukapuka! Welcome to Papercuts – the podcast all about books! Sit back, relax and let Jenna, Kiran and Louisa tempt you with some awesome reads to add to your pile.
The Papercuts gals are back to help you navigate the huge flood of incredible books that were delayed by Covid-19 and are now finally available for your reading pleasure. We also bring you our usual winning formula: a hot scoop of book industry news, our insightful book reviews and discussions, our not-book reviews and our dangerously teetering TBR piles. Come up the Papercuts lab and see what’s on the slab!
Books reviewed this episode:
KD: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Summerwater by Sarah Moss and Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
LK: Sisters by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape) & Nothing to See by Pip Adam (VUP)
JT: Deep Work by Cal Newport (Little & Brown)
Not books:
KD: Gloss on YouTube
LK: The Great on Neon
JT: Origins on TVNZ
The TBR Pile:
KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador) and Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt) and 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the Ockhams!
LK: The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemison (Orbit), The Swimmers by Chloe Lane (VUP), Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence and Gibson)
JT: Tree of Strangers by Barbara Sumner (MUP), Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape), Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Bloomsbury)
Book news:
- The NZ Children’s and Young Adults Book Awards were held on 12th August. Congratulations to all the winners, especially Selina Tusitala Marsh, whose first children’s book Mophead (AUP) won Margaret Mahy Book of the Year.
- Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Hamnet (Tinder Press).
- Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the International Booker Prize for their debut novel The Discomfort of Evening (trans by Michele Hutchinson, Faber).
- The Booker Prize 2020 shortlist has been announced! There’s no Hilary Mantel, and it’s the most diverse shortlist ever!
- Lineups for WORD (28 October–1 November), VERB (6–8 November 2020) and YARNS IN BARNS ( 8–18th October) have been announced – get amongst!
Finally...
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Welcome back to The Spinoff's monthly books podcast, hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.
The Papercuts team are finally back in The Spinoff studio this month with their usual winning recipe of book news, book recommendations, not books and their ever-growing ‘TBR’ piles.
They anticipate the announcements of some big book prizes, deep dive into a hugely entertaining book about the apocalypse, the new Ottessa Moshfegh (Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation), and how reading BWB Texts will make you much smarter. This month's ‘Not Books’ recommendations include Hollywood gossip, Drag Race and getting back to our Baby-Sitters Club roots on Netflix.
Books reviewed
KD: Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O’Connell (Granta); Funny Weather by Olivia Laing (Picador)
LK: Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape)
JT: Imagining Colonisation by Rebecca Kiddle, Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson, Ocean Mercier, Mike Ross, Jennie Smeaton, Amanda Thomas (BWB Text); Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End by Ranginui Walter (Penguin NZ)
Not books
KD: Last Picture Show via You Must Remember This Polly Platt podcast
LK: Canada’s Drag Race, Race Chaser & The Chop podcasts; Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
JT: The Baby-sitters Club & The Claudia Kishi Club on Netflix; AGC Gossip
The TBR Pile
KD: The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun (Serpents Tail); Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence & Gibson); Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan (White Rabbit); Rat King Landlord by Murdoch Stevens (Lawrence & Gibson)
LK: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; Pachinko by Min Jin Lee; Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
JT: Sigrid Nunez’s What are you Going Through; Carson McCullers’ Member of the Wedding; Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House)
Book news links
- The Booker Longlist will be announced tomorrow
- The International Book Awards Winners have been announced
- NZ Children’s and Young Adult Book Awards are being held virtually on the 12th of August, keep updated here
- Two new bookstores are opening in New Zealand! Bay Hill Books is open in Timaru and Good Books opens in Wellington soon.
- Kiran’s interview with Mark O’Connell on The Spinoff
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Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.
Book news
- Ockham results
- Congratulations to all the winning and shortlisted authors, and especially to Becky Manwatu for her sweep of Best First Fiction and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
- Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series
- Watch live via the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website.
- WORD Christchurch now running October 30 - 1 November
- They need your help to stage this year's festival! WORD is a charitable trust, and it's now easier than ever to donate. More information here.
- VERB Wellington confirmed for 6-8 November, with Litcrawl on 7 November
- NZ Bookstores experiencing boom in Level 2 - Guardian article
- The price of literature: writers take on Government over fair pay by Kelly Dennett
"This proposition that writers just do their work for love is a scurrilous attack on the integrity of all authors," says Dame Fiona Kidman.
Book reviews
KD: A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
LK: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Penguin)
JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman Books)
Not books
KD: Los Angeles is Burning by Anna Rankin on Newsroom
LK: The Good Place on Netflix and The Wondrous Adventures of Mittens
JT: Nat’s What I Reckon on YouTube (with a mention of
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Book news
Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist -- the Prize’s 25th year. The shortlist was announced on the Women’s Prize for Fiction social channels:
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell
Weather by Jenny Offill
BookshopsAreBack!!
Newsroom has a list of retailers around the country.
Ockhams Out Loud
The 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards was to be the first event of Festival week and will now be broadcast via the #theockhams YouTube channel.
In the lead up over the next few weeks, you can listen to each of the finalists reading from their shortlisted work, with one added each day until the winners are announced at the online ceremony on the evening of Tuesday 12 May. Take a look, and subscribe for updates.
Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series
Includes Bernardine Evaristo, Lisa Taddeo, Amy McDaid, Anthony Byrt and more.
9am on May 3rd and running live once a week for 13 weeks.
Three writers including at least two from the 2020 programme will chat with series host Paula Morris, read from their work and answer audience questions.
Watch via live the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website.
BookBound 2020
An 'antiviral' online literary festival, already in progress until 3 May 2020.
Includes a number of New Zealand authors, including Freya Daly Sadgrove, Pip Adam Becky Manawatu & Renée, who join literary talent such as Max Porter and Emma Glass from around the world.
The festival is raising money for a number of charities, and events are free on the BookBound 2020 YouTube channel
Verb Community
Verb Community members will ensure artists are paid for their work, help create content and experiences and lots of other good stuff. In return, they'll get access to the Verb Community hui where you can feed your ideas into what they do, discounts on ticketed events and festival sessions, and again lots of other good stuff!
They launch alongside three new pieces of writing by Sinead Overbye (a reading list on love in isolation), Victor Rodger (love and quite a bit of sex), and essa may ranapiri (gender and language).
Book reviews
KD: White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
LK: Torpor by Chris Kraus
JT: Aue by Becky Manawatu
Not books
KD: Record shops!
LK: Home Cooking: a podcast from Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway to help you figure out what to cook (and keep you company) during the quarantine. Thanks to Papercuts listener David for the recommendation!
Circus of Books on Netflix -- the charming and sometimes heartbreaking story of a middle-class Jewish family who ran a hardcore gay porn bookstore from the eighties up till the time of filming.
JT: Brideshead Revisited (1981 TV series)
The TBR Pile
KD: In the Fold and The Temporary by Rachel Cusk, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
LK: You'll enjoy it when you get there: the stories of Elizabeth Taylor, I'm working on a building by Pip Adam, Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno, Fake Baby by Amy McDaid (out June)
JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman), Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino (4th Estate). Tennis Lessons by Susannah Dickey (DD)
Also mentioned:
Green Girl by Kate...
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Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.
Well, we've all said we wish we had more time to read and now we've got what we wished for. Jenna, Kiran and Louisa delve into some book news (that's not too heavy for our weary heads), book reviews, not books and to be read piles. Tune in, switch your brain off and start making some notes for your upcoming, post-quarantine reads. Remember to wait for your local to open again! #bookshopswillbeback #waitforyourbookshop
Book news
How the NZ book scene is reaching people while we are under lockdown.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/29-03-2020/how-the-nz-books-scene-is-pivoting-in-response-to-covid-19/ Which includes microbiologist extraordinaire Siouxsie Wiles’ tips on lending books during lockdown: “If you are sharing or borrowing hard copy books outside of your bubble you might want to quarantine them for three days before getting stuck in.”
The Ockham Book Awards: Kiran is an Ockham Fiction Champion
http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/2020-awards/shortlist/
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, tr. Frank Wynne (Fitzcarraldo Editions) has won the Republic of Consciousness 2020 Prize
https://www.republicofconsciousness.com/the-conch/2020/2/11/republic-of-consciousness-class-of-2020-animalia-by-jean-baptiste-del-amo-tr-frank-wynne-fitzcarraldo-editions
Book reviews
KD: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (Canongate) with link to new Guardian article about art in an emergency and her forthcoming book Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing is published in April (ish) by Picador https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/21/feeling-overwhelmed-how-art-can-help-in-an-emergency-by-olivia-laing two other soothing books I’d like to recommend for lockdown are Wanderlust and Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit.
LK: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking / Samin Nosrat.
JT: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne (Text)
Not books
KD: Nathan for You: Finding Frances
LK: The Spinoff’s The Real Pod - RIP
JT: Chris Parker’s Felt Animals, Sarah Laing’s Quarantine Comics and Yoga with Adriene. Zumba link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shUjcUcgk5M
The TBR Pile
KD: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell, The Willd Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes, Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, Specimen by Madison Hamill, Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (60 pages away from finishing), A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux
LK: Don't go to sleep in the dark / Celia Fremlin. Torpor / Chris Kraus. Postcards from the edge / Carrie Fisher. Untold night and day / Bae Suah ; translated from the Korean by Deborah...
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Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.
It's February and our latest episode is packed to the gills. We chat trigger warnings, American Dirt, festivals, movies, poetry and of course, have our usual book reviews and TBR piles. Tune in!
Book news
- AWF Programme is out on the evening of 11th March
- Ockham Shortlist is out on March 4th.
- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED LISTEN: Digging into American Dirt pod: From four perspectives.
- https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800964001/digging-into-american-dirt
- Patti Smith helps Portland bookshop after break in.
- The 2020 NZ Festival of the Arts starts this week, 21 Feb – 15th March 2020.
- https://www.festival.nz/https://www.festival.nz/events/writers
- Writers programme including KD’s session with Booker International Prize Winner Jokha Alharthi https://www.festival.nz/events/all/writing-womens-lives/ and Alharthi and Rijula Das
Book reviews
KD: Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride, Rest and be thankful by Emma Glass.
LK: Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman
JT: Head Girl by Freya Daly Sadgrove (with a mention of As the Verb Tenses by Lynley Edmeades), In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Not books
KD: Three Women by Robert Altman
LK: Next in Fashion on Netflix
JT: Emma.
The TBR Pile
KD: The Undying by Anne Boyer, Out of the Woods by Luke Turner,
LK: Middlemarch by George Eliot, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
JT: Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey, Burn the Place by Illana Regan, Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (in preparation for the June release of The Lying Life of Adults), 2000f Above Worry Level by Eamonn Marra.
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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
Obscure podcast
Join various hosts of The Spinoff podcasts Gone by Lunchtime, On The Rag, The Real Pod, Paper Cuts, The Offspin, and Dietary Requirements as we look back at the car crash that was 2019.
In this special end of year podcast hosted by Leonie Hayden, we dissect the country's response to national disasters, the highs and lows of MAFS, international literary scandals, the madness and tragedy of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Mad Chapman's Pulitzer Prize-winning chip ranking and more, plus we add our entries to the official The Spinoff 2019 Honours and Dishonours board.
Pour yourself a Baileys and settle in.
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Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.
Band on the Run
Can you believe this is our final episode for 2019? In this episode we give a scene report from the first Papercuts band-on-tour field trip where we headed to Wellington for the Verb Festival. And we bring you more book news, book reviews, discuss what we are looking forward to reading over summer, and more! Settle in with Jenna, Kiran and Louisa. Thank you to everyone who has listened to Papercuts, we have loved having you with us and will be back in 2020!
BOOK NEWS:
New Zealand Festival of the Arts - Writers programme - From Laurie Anderson and Andrea Lawlor to Jokha Alharthi and Tommy Orange - there is so much we want to see!
https://www.festival.nz/events/writers/
Kiran's session with Booker International Prize winner Jokha Alharthi and Wellington writer Rijula Das Writing Women's Lives
https://www.festival.nz/events/all/writing-womens-lives/
Goldsmiths Prize Winner: Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellman (Galley Beggar Press/Text Publishing)
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/prize2019/ducks-newburyport/
National Book Award winners
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/20/national-book-awards-susan-choi-wins-fiction-award-for-trust-exercise
The Spinoff Book has been launched!
https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-11-2019/its-alive-the-spinoff-book-is-published-today/
Sinead Gleeson wins award Bookselling Ireland Non Fiction Book of the Year 2019 at the An Post Irish Book Awards for her collection of essays Constellations.
https://www.irishbookawards.irish/award/bookselling-ireland-non-fiction-book-of-the-year-2019/
As promised, a link to Kiran's NZ Herald interview with Sinead Gleeson.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12281683
And, as promised last episode, a link to Kiran's piece for The Spinoff about lathe cuts!
https://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/objectspace/objectspace-2019/03-11-2019/the-back-country-record-cutter-putting-new-zealand-music-on-plastic/
BOOK REVIEWS:
KD:
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
LK:
The Boyfriend by Laura Southgate
JT:
The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
NOT BOOKS:
KD/JT:
Dolly Parton's America (Radiolab podcast)
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/radiolab-presents-dolly-partons-america
LK:
His Dark Materials series - An HBO and BBC...
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Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.
After a few extra weeks off, Papercuts are back to chat the controversial Booker decision, NZ Bookshop Day, the Goldsmith shortlist & some exciting upcoming author events! Book reviews and to be read piles are all divulged as well as some not books too. Settle in with Jenna, Kiran and Louisa - we love your support!
Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support.
Show notes are below:
Book news
Joint winners of the Booker Prize 2019:
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The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo.
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Article by Galley Beggar Press: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/what-happened-booker-prize-ellmann/
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New Zealand Bookshop Day is THIS Saturday 26 October https://www.booksellers.co.nz/whats-on
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Goldsmiths Shortlist https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
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Zadie Smith - Wednesday 13th November James Hay Theatre
https://wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/an-evening-with-zadie-smith/- - Patti Smith is coming to Christchurch and Auckland
https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/16550/Patti-Smith-New-Zealand-Shows-Announced.utr
- Verb Wellington's Litcrawl: https://www.verbwellington.nz/
Congrats to the winner of Inland by Tea Obreht: Ali Horsley!
Thank you to Hachette for making this happen!
Book reviews
LK: Scented by Laurence Fearnley
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https://www.fragrantica.com/
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Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
JT: The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine
- Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
KD: The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
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Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
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The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy
Online picks
LK: The Age of Rudeness by Rachel Cusk for the New York Times
KD:‘A Short Run: A Selection of NZ Lathe Cut Records’ at Objectspace
JT: ‘Downtime’ on iphone (in settings/screentime)
The TBR Pile
KD: Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt
Outlier by Rachel Cusk
Patience by Toby Lit
Face it by Debbie Harry
The River Capture by Mary Costello
Sinead Gleeson
Actress by Anne Enright
LK: The Boyfriend by Laura Southgate
Green Book and Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno
The Address by Fiona Davis
Call Me Evie by J. P. Pomare
JT: A Sharp Left Turn by Mike Chunn
Rich Enough? by Mary Holm
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
Thank you Alice for recording and the Matatuhi Foundation for your support.
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On this month’s Papercuts, Jenna, Kiran and Louisa hold experiment to see what it is like to drink a bottle of prosecco whilst recording. We observe the Booker Longlist, delve into bunch of NZ trade news - including the NZ Booksellers Conference, Industry Awards and Coalition for Books. As always, we review what we’ve been reading and chat about what’s on the reading pile too. Settle in!
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Links:
Booker Prize longlist https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/24/not-read-them-yet-a-cheats-guide-to-the-2019-booker-prize-longlist
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/booker-tightlipped-amid-speculation-lee-child-will-judge-2020-prize-1064066
Going West
https://www.goingwestfest.co.nz/
The Coalition for Books
https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018708671&fbclid=IwAR16skideVZlWx_XlDaAgQlawBTuZffm2r52W5XaHLmqM6j4-_aFvowQskU
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018710299/the-coalition-for-books-is-launched
2019 Book Trade Industry Awards
https://www.booksellers.co.nz/news/community-bookshop-wins-owners-lifetime-achievement-award
Obama’s annual summer reading list:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/books/obama-summer-reading.html
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018710752/reform-school-horror-colson-whitehead
Fully Booked Podcast:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/fully-booked-by/susan-choi-F_Py8TgIShp/
Fame music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMmquNLnHg
Margaret Atwood Live in Cinemas:
https://www.thecapitol.co.nz/movie/margaret-atwood-live-in-cinemas
Linda Burgess in conversation with KD
https://www.timeout.co.nz/upcoming-events/f53kgsjnac4p93hdwgr9hdl88hx7hj
Books:
Lanny by Max Porter
Capital by John Lanchester
The Wall by John Lanchester
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Inland by Tea Obreht
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Guestbook - Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton
Trust Exercise by...
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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
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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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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 and a big thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support.
Book News
AWF's An Evening with Arundhati Roy - 17th July
http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/news/Page1/an-evening-with-arundhati-roy/
PANZ Book Design Awards - 25th July
http://www.bookdesignawards.co.nz/2019-shortlist/
Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Faber & Faber: The Untold Story - Toby Faber
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12237604
AWF Podcast
http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/podcasts/Page3/renee-a-writing-life/
Book Reviews
Jenna - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharti - Winner of the 2019 International Booker Prize
Kiran - The Years by Annie Ernaux (with a mention of Saltwater by Jessica Andrews)
Louisa - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Not Books
Jenna - Chernobyl (HBO)
Kiran - Hildur Guðnadóttir and Chris Watson (composer & field recorder for Chernobyl)
Louisa - The Lunatics (Netflix)
The TBR Pile
Jenna - The Years by Annie Ernaux, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Furious Hours by Casey Cep
Kiran - The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy (August), Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine, Being Various ed. by Lucy Caldwell
Louisa - Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Louisa and Jenna visited Browsers Secondhand Bookstore in Hamilton.
Thank you to The Spinoff, Tina and the Matatuhi Foundaton.
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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.
Papercuts: An Auckland Writers Festival Report.
A VERY SPECIAL podcast, where we say the words VERY SPECIAL many times.
Papercuts report from the ground at the Auckland Writers Festival 2019, where a record breaking 82,000 seats were filled over seven days of literary goodness.
Jenna, Louisa & Kiran interview Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize winner Dame Fiona Kidman, Pulitzer Prize winning Andrew Sean Greer and the incredible and probably soon-to-be prize winning Elaine Castillo.
We also break down the Ockham Book Awards, the Festival Gala, Douglas Coupland, Literally Lorne, Kamila Shamsie, Chessie Henry, Jill Abramson, Alexander Chee, Shayne Carter, Carla Guelfenbein, we attend two book launches and drink a lot of wine.
Thank you to Anne & the Auckland Writers Festival team for having us, 2019 Voyager Media Awards Website of the Year - The Spinoff and of course, The Mātātuhi Foundation.
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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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Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.
In this episode we have a special guest! Anne O'Brien, director of the Auckland Writers FestivalWaituhi O Tāmakijoins us to discuss what punters can expect at New Zealand's largest annual festival of ideas and literature. We look at the Ockham Book Awards shortlist, explore the bizarre story of "world class scam artist" Elizabeth Holmes, and bring you our usual book reviews and raves.
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Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support.
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Papercuts #10: Cutting to the ChasePapercuts is here for your February book news and recommendations. We chat about The Ockhams longlist,Jacqui Sturm, dear Peter Wells and Ashleigh Young.As well as your usual book reviews and a bonkers Who the Fuck Is?, that could almost be a psychological thriller.TWITTER & INSTA: @papercutspod EMAIL: papercutspod@gmail.com Thank you Mātātuhi Foundation for your support, The Spinoff and Tina! Book News- Ockham Longlist is out, check it out here! Shortlist is out March 6th http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/2019-awards/longlist/ - James K Baxter week on The Spinoff. Our favourite piece is this one about Jacqui Sturm.- RIP Peter Wells- Ashleigh Young - is the new(ish) Spinoff poetry editor. Here's her first column in Canvas.Unity Book of the Month In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie ColvinLindsey HilsumVintage, 2018Written by fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum, this is the story of the most daring war reporter of her age. Drawing on unpublished diaries and notebooks, and interviews with Marie's friends, family and colleagues, In Extremis is the story of our turbulent age, and the life of a woman who defied convention.Format: Hardback
Price: $55.00 Book reviews
LK: Women in the Field, One and Two / Thomasin SleighLawrence & Gibson, 2018
JT: The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer - also mentions Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thompson
KD: A Mistake - Carl Shuker (pub March 14)
Who the fuck is...
AJ Finn/Dan Mallory
We love this piece in The Listener by Michele Hewiston
Not BooksLK: Roma on Netflix
JT: NARRATIVE MUSE - book and movie matcher is now launched
KD: How to Fail pod by Elizabeth Day
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It's 2019 and our Papercuts team have been reading like mad over the summer break. We talk about reading resolutions, predict the Ockhams longlist, go through our summer reading piles and talk Marie Kondo's approach to hoarding books + much more! You can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter @papercutspod and we are now on Instagram! @Papercuts Podcast Thanks to The Spinoff for having us and the Matatuhi Foundation.
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Welcome to the final Papercuts for 2018. As always, we break down the latest book news, including - Wellington's LitCrawl, My Brilliant Friend on TV & our old mate Jordan B Peterson visiting New Zealand next year. We announce our Normal People tote bag winner & give you a list of Christmas book ideas, because we believe you can buy a book for everyone.
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Hello boils & ghouls,
It's been a big week for books as The 2018 Man Booker has been announced! Is it worth reading? We then deep dive into a new Papercuts favourite, The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy. The latest review on The Spinoff Book's page did not favour it - let us know what YOU thought of the book!. We also chat Wellington LitCrawl, Valeria Luiselli, Sylvia Plath, literary witches & have our first ever giveaway.
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On this episode of Papercuts we delve into all the latest book news, deep dive into the Booker longlisted (update: and scandalously not shortlisted), Normal Peopleand ask who the fuck is Bob Woodward. With a lot more book & non-book related recommendations included! Check out the Booker Shortlist here! (Announced after recording) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/20/man-booker-2018-shortlist-daisy-johnson-anna-burns-rachel-kushner-richard-powers-esi-edugyan-robin-robertson
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Kia ora Papercuts listeners! You are listening to a podcast all about books on The Spinoff. Louisa and Jenna come to you from the NZ Booksellers Conference at the Rydges Hotel in Auckland. We talk about the Book Industry Awards, interview the owners of NZ's best bookshop 2018 and Louisa interviews Shaun Bythell, the real-life Black Books-esque bookseller from Wigtown, Scotland. We look forward to having our Kiran back for September's podcast!
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Louisa, Kiran and Jenna are here to give you all the latest book goss. Authors are being ferried all over New Zealand to speak to you, the PANZ Book Design Awards are upon us and the Man Booker Prize Longlist has just been announced.
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Hi ho! Our new episode of Papercuts is here to give you both book goss and a pile of recommendations to get you through this wintery weather.
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Kiran, Jenna & Louisa hid up on Level 5 of the Aotea Centre to record on the ground responses from three days at the Auckland Writers Festival.
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Papercuts is back! Louisa, Jenna and Kiran are back a little early to make sure you're all up to speed with the upcoming Auckland Writers Festival.
Sadly, we've just heard that Eileen Myles can no longer attend the Auckland Writers Festival. We recommend still reading Afterglow & Chelsea Girls and listening to this interview with RNZ's Kim Hill.
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Welcome to Papercuts, the podcast all about books! In this first episode, Jenna, Kiran and Louisa discuss the Auckland Writers Festival, the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards fiction shortlist (Jenna was a judge!), some great recent reads, and the mysterious and controversial figure that is Jordan B. Peterson, if that is in fact his real name. Oh, and we find out which Baby Sitters Club characters we are... and one of us is Mallory Pike.
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