Yiyun Li's music meditation, Marlon James' Booker-shortlisted epic, Bonnie Garmus' latest
· 55 min
Episode Yiyun Li's music meditation, Marlon James' Booker-shortlisted epic, Bonnie Garmus' latest
Kate and Cassie discuss Chinese-born American writer Yiyun Li's Music Against the Night, an exquisite exploration of music and time. Plus, with regular guests crime writer Michael Robotham and novelist and university lecturer Roanna Gonsalves, they unpack violence and homophobia in Jamaica in Marlon James' Booker-shortlisted novel The Disappearers; and review Peck & Peck, the latest screwball literary caper from Lessons in Chemistry bestseller Bonnie Garmus.
BOOKS
• Yiyun Li, Music Against the Night, Farrar Straus and Giroux • Marlon James, The Disappearers, Hamish Hamilton • Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck, Manilla Press
GUESTS
• Michael Robotham, crime writer whose latest, and 20th, novel has just been released. It’s called Tell Me Something True • Roanna Gonsalves, writer, university lecturer, and editor of the literary journal Southerly, whose 81st edition has recently been published
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
• Joyride by Susan Orlean • The End of Everything by M. John Harrison • Black Bag by Luke Kennard • May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry • The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout • John of John by Douglas Stuart • The Second Child by Malcolm Knox
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