What's the opposite of a book slump? We're calling it a flare, and Gwen is on one. She and Frank have a flurry of adult book recommendations, from dystopian novels to innovative science fiction.
What we are reading now
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Another crossover episode with our fine friends from the Overdue podcast! Frank and Gwen join Craig and Andrew in Philadelphia to discuss the 1956 novel Peyton Place. Is it a classic? A soap opera? A groundbreaking statement about sexuality? Is it “ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle” — the first line of the book? You decide.
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
More Peyton Place...
If you liked this episode, check out our first TLII/Overdue collab: "Lord of the Guys," back in January 2017!
This week we take you back to our first-ever live show, recorded in Frank's very own Jefferson Market Library! Gwen and Frank talk to Eric Klinenberg, sociologist and author of a new book about libraries and social infrastructure. Plus: the audience offers an invaluable assist during the guessing game.
Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg
More of his work in our catalog and on his website
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin
Books by Barbara Ehrenreich
O Cafe in Greenwich Village (and pão de queijo)
It's the first-ever Reading Challenge episode! Gwen and Frank assigned books to each other to read and discuss on the air. Hijinks ensue...
Book Recommendations
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Ava Gardner: 'Love Is Nothing' by Lee Server
Also mentioned:
Our fourth episode, when Gwen flipped out on Frank for not having read Harry Potter.
Several of Ava's movies, available from NYPL:
The Golden Girls of MGM by Jane Ellen Wayne
Pottermore online
That great tweet about girls with frizzy hair (warning: language!)