Reading Envy 172: The It Book of NYC

Jenny welcomes Jon Laubinger of the Film Baby Film Podcast back to the Reading Envy Pub for a chat on books, the multimedia versions they connect to, and more. We spend some time chatting about recent book awards, including more on the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. If you're not that interested in award chatter, jump ahead to 15:15. And make sure to listen to the end for information on one Reading Envy guest who had a movie made from his work!

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Books discussed:



The Need by Helen Phillip
The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes
First Light by Charles Baxter
The Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, read by Frances McDormand


Other mentions:

Booker Prize 2019
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
Nobel Prize for Literature
Flights by Olga Tocarczuk
Wings of Desire (film)
Kindred by Octavia Butler
ZEAL & ARDOR
"We Are in the Future" - This American Life 623
Interview with Rivers Solomon
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Satantango (film)
Werckmeister Harmonies (film)
The Turin Horse (film)
Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
The Devils (film)
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
Beanpole (film)
21 Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by P&V


Related Episodes:

Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud 
Episode 080 - The Wild Things Helped with Jason Roland
Episode 102 - The Reading Women Reading Envy Crossover Episode 
Episode 106 - Falling Asleep During Tarkovsky Films with Jon Laubinger
Episode 126 - Bernice Bobs her Hair with Jon Laubinger
Episode 165 - Delightful Reads with Claire
Episode 166 - On Brand with Karen
Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie
Episode 170 - Permission to Read with Joshua Greer 
 

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Reading Envy 162: Heat Rating with Sara DeSantis

Sara used to only read self-help books but now has shifted to being a major romance reader, especially in audio. Jenny has reformed from her early skepticism (it might have been a certain royal wedding) and decided to talk about some of the romance she's read and liked lately.

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Books discussed:



Suddenly Royal by Nichole Chase
Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
P.S. from Paris by Marc Levy, translated by Sam Taylor


Other mentions:

Reluctant Royals series by Alyssa Cole
The Princess Diaries (film)
V&A (Victoria and Albert) Museum
Forbidden Hearts series by Alisha Rai
American Hookup by Lisa Wade
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (film)
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
Always Be My Maybe (film)
Just Like Heaven (film)
Kiss and Break Up by Ella Fields
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson


Related Episodes:

Episode 056 - The Wall of Romance
Episode 074 - The Books We Didn't Love in High School with Blaine DeSantis

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Reading Envy Podcast 126: Bernice Bobs Her Hair with Jon Laubinger

Jon Laubinger, of Film Baby Film and recent game show appearances, returns to the Reading Envy pub for a more traditional episode. We chat books, quitting your job, reading books set where you travel, game shows, and some film talk sneaks in from time to time. Bushido!

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A dream come true!

Books Discussed:



Shogun by James Clavell
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Augustus by John Williams
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell
Passing by Nella Larsen


Other Mentions: 

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (tv show)
Silence (film)
Longform book podcasts:
Backlisted podcast
Overdue podcast
Book Fight podcast
The Broken Earth Series by N.K. Jemisin
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Nebula Awards
The Hugo Awards
Locus Awards
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
King Rat by James Clavell
Alaska by James Michener
Hawaii by James Michener
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Circe by Madeleine Miller
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith 
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Six Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
The Overstory by Richard Powers


Related Episodes:

Episode 055 - Too Late for an Autopsy with Julie Davis
Episode 080 - The Wild Things Helped with Jason Roland
Episode 087 - Going Native with Bookclub Social with Amanda and Grace 
Episode 106 - Falling Asleep During Tarkovsky Films with Jon Laubinger
Episode 122 - A Cylon Raider Shaped Hole in Your Heart with Sara Burnett


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Reading Envy 106: Falling Asleep During Tarkovsky Films

Jenny got together with a longtime online reading friend, Jon Laubinger, and host of his own podcast, Film Baby Film. We discussed the book Roadside Picnic alongside the film Stalker. You should expect spoilers for both, as this is an in-depth discussion.

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Book/film discussed:



Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated by Olena Bormashenko
Stalker (film) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Other mentions:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Mad Men (tv show) - picnic episode is Season 2, Episode 7
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Solaris (film) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem
Area X trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
Annihilation (film) directed by Alex Garland
The Mirror (film) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Related Episodes:

Episode 023 - The Patron Saint of the Misfit Readers with guests Marco V. Morelli and Averi Dylan
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Reading Envy 096: Not Without Hope

Yanira returns to discuss books with Jenny. We each select three books we've read and liked recently but also manage to throw in other books we like. That's pretty typical! And we agree - talking about books is the best therapy.

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Books featured:



Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal al-Sharif
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Leger
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion


Other mentions:
  

@bookishfeminist and @mauveandrosysky in Litsy
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
Wanda (film)
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Tony Morrison
John Steinbeck
Daphne Merkin on NPR
The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
South and West by Joan Didion
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A List of Things that Didn't Kill Me by Jason Schmidt
The Secret History by Donna Tartt


Related episodes:

Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief) 
Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez


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