A Special Thank You and Farewell to our Book Friend, Mark, with a few more "Most Anticipated Books of 2023 (May to August)" picks

Published: May 9, 2023, 11 a.m.

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We finish off talking about our anticipated reads of May to August 2023, and bid farewell to Mark, one of our dear book friends. Thank you, Mark, for all your thought-provoking book recommendations in the past year. We will try to carry the torch by raising awareness of lesser known, translated works from around the world.

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Books mentioned on this episode: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Ca\\xf1as, Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma T\\xf6rzs, The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross, Oh God, The Sun Goes by David Connor, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa, The Maniac by Benjam\\xedn Labatut, Kappa by Ry\\u016bnosuke Akutagawa, translated by Lisa Hoffman-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell, The Forest Brims Over by Maru Ayase, translated by Haydn Trowell, Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, translated by Philip Gabriel, and Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai, translated by Polly Barton.

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