On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin with an admission: Ian was wrong! He got the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize wrong! He got the longlist for the National Book Award wrong! What is he even doing talking about literature at all? Nevertheless, the two books on the slab this month remain The Fisherman by John Langan [9:00] and By Light We Knew Our Names by Anne Valente [42:25].
If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:12:25 for brief final remarks. The books up for discussion next month's are two horror/dark novels:
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Episode 47: 'Satin Island' and 'Lament for the Afterlife'
Episode 46: 'Day Boy' and 'Viper Wine'
Episode 45: 'The Godless' and 'The Book of the Unnamed Midwife'
Episode 44: 'The King of Attolia' and 'Growing Rich'
Episode 43: 'The Well' and 'Clade'
Episode 42: 'The Bitterwood Bible' and 'How to Be Both'
Episode 41: 'Hild' and 'Station Eleven'
Episode 40: 'Dust Devil on a Quiet Street' and 'We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves'
Episode 39: 'We See A Different Frontier' and 'Long Hidden'
Episode 38: 'The Lives of Tao' and 'The Curse of Chalion'
Episode 37: 'Lexicon' and 'Fairytales for Wilde Girls'
Episode 36: 'Love is the Law' and 'The Bloody Chamber'
Episode 35: 'Bearded Women' and 'Ancillary Justice'
Episode 34: 'A Tale for the Time Being' and 'Gone Girl'
Episode 33: 'NOS4A2' and 'Sister Mine'
Episode 32: 'Every Day' and 'The Woman Upstairs'
Episode 31: 'Life After Life' and 'The Testament of Jessie Lamb'
Episode 30: 'Hair Side, Flesh Side' and 'Light'
Episode 29: 'A Madness of Angels' and 'Saga'
Episode 28: 'Feed' and 'Some Kind of Fairy Tale'
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