Is this the Real Life?

An episode of the Papercuts podcast, hosted by The Spinoff, titled "Is this the Real Life?" was published on December 1, 2020 and runs 80 minutes.

December 1, 2020 ·80m · Papercuts

Summary

The gang are back with their usual witches brew of book news, insightful book reviews and discussions, not-book reviews and their dangerously teetering TBR piles. Books reviewed this episode: KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador/Grove Atlantic) LK: Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt Books) JT: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (Granta) Not books: KD: Magazines are back! Welcome back Metro and North & South LK: Season Two of His Dark Materials and Daisy Johnson’s horror fiction recommendations. JT: Chris Parker’s This is How I Felt The TBR Pile: KD: 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the 2021 Ockhams and books from a Fitzcarraldo Editions subscription LK: White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi and The Residents by Lucy Revill JT: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar and Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey Book news: Shuggie Bain won the Booker Prize!  The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison won the Goldsmith Prize! A book about the bloody Beatles has won the Baillie Gifford Prize!  The National Book Awards 2020 winners have been announced! Also mentioned: A scathing review of Dolly Alderton’s novel Ghosts An excellent Guardian interview with Brandon Taylor The High Low podcast is drawing to an end Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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