Summer Reading 2021
It\u2019s time for our annual look at what we\u2019ve been reading over the summer break. John, Andy and Nicky discuss David Keenan\u2019s fourth novel Monument Maker; Open Water, a promising debut novella from Caleb Azumah Nelson; Deborah Levy\u2019s three-volume \u2018living autobiography\u2019, Things I Don\u2019t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate; a reissue of Percival Everett\u2019s satirical diatribe Erasure; Life With a Capital L, Geoff Dyer\u2019s selection of essays by D.H. Lawrence; and Vivian Gornick\u2019s The End of the Novel of Love and Unfinished Business, in which the author re-reads favourite classic books and comes to fresh conclusions about them.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)06:12 - Monument Maker by David Keenan. 17:47 - Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson. 25:24 - Erasure by Percival Everett. 33:38 - Things I Don\u2019t Want to Know; The Cost of Living; Real Estate by Deberah Levy. 40:55 - Life With A Capital L: Essays by D.H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer. 48:33 - The End of the Novel of Love; Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick. * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at\xa0uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted\xa0where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit\xa0www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at\xa0www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices