Reading Envy 169: Simulacrum with Jon Sealy

Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy Pub with author and publisher Jon Sealy. After we talk about the state of publishing and Jon's current projects, we also discuss books we've read and liked recently. Some books are just better in audio, some are necessarily dark, while others clear away the gloom.

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Books discussed:



The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Circle of Karma by Kunzang Choden
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
The Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa, translated by David Karashima


Other mentions:

Jenny's trip to the South Carolina Book Festival in 2014 (where she saw Jon Sealy talk about his book right before a panel of Pat Conroy's siblings)
The Whiskey Baron by Jon Sealy
Hub City Press
Eureka Mill by Ron Rash
Like a Family by Jacquelyne Dowd Hall et al
Fate Moreland's Widow by John Lane
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
The Edge of America by Jon Sealy
Haywire Books
Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley
Firebird by Mark Powell
Small Treasons by Mark Powell
The Good Luck Stone by Heather Bell Adams
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Orfeo by Richard Powers
In the Woods by Tana French
The Witch Elm by Tana French
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Neopolitan Novels #1)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown by Larry Brown (forthcoming)
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates


Related Episodes:

Episode 012 - Some Bookers and Some Madness 
Episode 024 - The Attention of Humanity with guests Seth Wilson and Barret Newman 
Episode 130 - All the Jennifers with Fern Ronay
Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie


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Some of these links are Amazon affiliate links, where I do get a minor kickback when people click on them. But many of the links on today's post link to the small presses publishing the books, and although I receive no kickback on those links, I would love for you to support those publishers and writers.