Episode 92: Essays, Part II

We love talking about essays so much, we decided to do it again! This week, we pick up where we left off a few episodes ago, chatting about more of our favorite essayists and collections. We also share a few from our essay TBR piles. What are some of your favorites?

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Shownotes

Books

• Greenglass House, by Kate Milford

• Ghosts of Greenglass House, by Kate Milford

• The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin

• The Unforgivable, by Cristina Campo

• You Like It Darker, by Stephen King

• Every Arc Bends Its Radian, by Sergio De La Pava

• A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava

• Ghosts, by Edith Wharton

• Europe in Sepia, Dubravka Ugresic, translated by David Williams

• Karaoke Culture, by Dubravka Ugresic, translated by David Williams

• Muzzle for Witches, by Dubravka Ugresic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać

• Thank You for Not Reading, by Dubravka Ugresic, translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth, with contribution from Damion Searls

• Fox, by Dubravka Ugresic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać and David Williams

• An Elemental Thing, by Eliot Weinberger

• A Chance Meeting: American Encounters, by Rachel Cohen

• Sightlines, by Kathleen Jamie

• The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman

• The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay

• The Book of (More) Delights, by Ross Gay

• Pulphead, by John Jeremiah Sullivan

• Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace

• A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write, by Melissa Pritchard

• The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf

• War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

• The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Felix Holt: The Radical, by George Eliot

• Middlemarch, by George Eliot

• The God of Endings, by Jacqueline Holland

• Melvill, by Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden

• Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young

• Angel in the Forest, by Marguerite Young

• The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker

Other Links

• Episode 39: Scary Books That Kept Us Up at Night

• Electric Lit: Our Favorite Essays and Stories About Horror Films

• Three Percent Podcast: Lori Feathers on Marguerite Young

• Obliteraturetees

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