We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review’s podcast in general. “Shakespeare in a Divided America” by James Shapiro Here are the books discussed in this week’s “What We’re Reading”: And as I started discovering that, I started falling in love with the game.”Īlso on this week’s episode, Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world and Gregory Cowles and John Williams talk about what people are reading. It taught me a lot about myself - about the kind of person I am, the kind of person I can be, and it gave me the skills to reach for that person.
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Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent times. Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of. David Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue’s turbulent life and times of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder of the families we choose and the ones we don’t of voices in the head, and the truths and lies they whisper of music, madness, and idealism. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) 'A stand-out triumph' - Sunday Times The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' ( Independent ).
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