Awfully Rich: Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise and more

Money, kidnapping, reality TV, politics, corruption, families, love, and betrayal in all three books on this edition of The Bookshelf. Kate Evans and Jonathan Green, with guests Farz Edraki and Johan Gabrielsson, read Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise, Porochistaa Khakpour's Tehrangeles and Patrick Holland's Oblivion. Awfully rich, richly awful.BOOKSTaffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise, WildfirePorochistaa Khakpour, Tehrangeles: A Novel, Ultimo PressPatrick Holland, Oblivion, Transit LoungeGUESTSFarz Edraki, Iranian-Australian writer and producer. Presenter of the ABC audio series, 'Days Like These'Johan Gabrielsson, Swedish-born, Sydney-based filmmaker – and Bookshelf regularOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJonathan Franzen, The CorrectionsMarcel Proust, In Search of Lost TimeHossein Asgari, Only Sound RemainsLouisa May Alcott, Little WomenTaffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman is in TroubleKaveh Akbar, Martyr!James Joyce, UlyssesGraham Greene, The Quiet AmericanGraham Greene, A Burnt-Out CaseClaire Keegan, Walk the Blue FieldsClaire Keegan, AntarcticaJames Salter, worksJonathan Franzen, worksPhilip Roth, worksMiranda July, All FoursClive James, Poetry NotebookNiklas Turner Olovzon, Iceberg