S10:Ep223 - The Act of Disappearing with Guest Nathan Gower - 5/22/24

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Nathan Gower at his website www.nathangower.com or on IG @nathan_gower_ Our guest this week is Nathan Gower, a writer with roots in Kentucky, having earned degrees from Spalding University and the University of Louisville. He now serves as a professor of English at Campbellsville University. His debut novel, The Act of Disappearing, publishes on May 28 with Mira Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. The novel is about a woman named Julia, who her friends call Jules. Julia has been trying to make a name for herself as a fiction writer, but she works at a bar to make ends meet. It is there that she meets a famous older man named Jonathan Aster who gives her a photograph and offers to pay her to tell the story of the woman in the picture: the woman in the photo is jumping off a bridge holding a baby. Julia begins a quest to discover who this woman is and learns about herself in the process. He also talks to us about how terrifying it was to write a book from a female point of view, how the women in his family inspired this story, and the sci-fi book he just read and thoroughly enjoyed even though he doesn’t like sci-fi. Books Mentioned in This Episode: 1- The Act of Disappearing by Nathan Gower 2- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 3- Dead Boy Detectives by Neil Gaiman 4- Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys 5- Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table by Sara Roahen 6- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 7- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty - A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Claire Boswell @clairesbookobsession 8- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 10- The Man In The Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas 11- Made for You by Jenna Satterthwaite 12- Johanna Porter is Not Sorry by Sara Read Entertainment mentioned— 1- Beetlejuice (1988) 2- Beetlejuice (Broadway Across America) 3- Seinfeld (1989- 1998, Netflix) 4- Dark Matter (2024, Apple+) 5- The Dead Boys Detective (2024, Netflix) 6- Locke & Key (2020, Netflix) 7- The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) Photograph mentioned— time.com/3456028/the-most-bea…h-an-immortal-photo/