So I've been desperately on the hunt for a good book review podcast... to little avail so far. BBC is worthy but a bit boring (although the interview complete with reader's Q&A with Gunter Grass on The Tin Drum was good). NY Times is a bit smug and clever. I'm struggling to find that sense of excited passionate enthusiasm in a book review.
While I continue on this hunt I suggest all book lovers listen to The New Yorker Fiction podcast (free from iTunes). The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman gives an introduction and a brief interview with a well known writer who then reads a short story by another writer that they have chosen from the magazine's archive.
These are some of my favourites:
- Jeffrey Eugenides reads Harold Brodkey’s short story “Spring Fugue.”
- Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Gospel According to Mark.”
- Joyce Carol Oates reads Eudora Welty’s “Where Is the Voice Coming From?”
It's a bit like being in your own secret nerdy book club.
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