Episode 32 - Where Literature is at this Moment with Bernie Lombardi

On this episode, Bernie Lombardi, a professor and researcher, discusses how his popular bookstagram and award lists are intertwined, along with his experiences reading the lists and even getting to go to the final ceremonies of a few awards! We also hear about his new author obsession and a very cool way that he tracks his reading each year.    Bernie’s Instagram The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix Held by Anne Michaels  Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner    Books Highlighted by Bernie: Milkman by Anna Burns  Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli  The Road by Cormac McCarthy  We the Animals by Justin Torres  The Promise by Damon Galgut  Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman  Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan  Atonement by Ian McEwan  An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro  The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden  Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell  The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell Intermezzo by Sally Rooney  Prophet Song by Paul Lynch  The Bee Sting by Paul Murray  Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein  Orbital by Samantha Harvey  James by Percival Everett  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain  Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar Blackouts by Justin Torres