Episode 15 - Percival Everett Fan Club with Ben Ustick

On this episode, Ben Ustick, the taproom manager at Off Color Mousetrap and I discuss some of our shared favorite books, the excellence of contemporary fiction, and his goal to read Percival Everett’s entire oeuvre this year. Get ready to be shocked yourself when you hear the book that shocked Ben. If you want to visit us at Off Color Book Club, check my instagram for the information on the next meeting!   Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The God of the Woods by Liz Moore  Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay    Books Highlighted by Ben:  True Biz by Sara Nović Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank   The Hustler by Walter Tevis   The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams  Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel  The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai  Less by Andrew Sean Greer  Victim by Andrew Boryga    Other Books Mentioned in the Episode: All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   The Firm by John Grisham A Time to Kill by John Grisham  The Client by John Grisham  The Chamber by John Grisham  Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton  The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster  Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King  The BFG by Roald Dahl  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams  Erasure by Percival Everett  James by Percival Everett  Telephone by Percival Everett  I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett  The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger  The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey  Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah  Trust by Hernan Diaz  The Color of Money by Walter Tevis  The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis  Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer  The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger