Reading Envy 045: Worlds Collide with Ross O'Brien

Jenny was pleased to sit down with Ross O'Brien in her morning and his evening, discussing books across the globe in the ever expanding Reading Envy Pub.

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Book selections:


Submission by Michel Houellebecq
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Pure by Timothy Mo
Slade House by David Mitchell


Other mentions:
Flow Bookshop (Hong Kong)
Anthony Burgess
V.S. Naipaul
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
Albert Camus
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
New Zealand rugby team (the "All Blacks") at the World Cup, doing the haka
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
An Insular Possesion by Timothy Mo
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

Related podcast episodes:
Reading Envy Episode 031: Hideous Realism with Steen and Jesse

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