Happy fall, everyone! I feel like I’ve been waiting months to say that so we can officially welcome in my favorite reading season of the year! I hope you’re all planning some time to cozy up with a good book! In this week’s episode, we announce the winner of our fall reading swag box, in an effort to help one lucky listener celebrate the fall, but we hope all of you get a chance to enjoy the season!
What are some books you’re hoping to pick up this fall?
This week’s episode
Hotels can be pleasurable or sinister, bustling or lonesome, a chance to refresh or to fall into a seedy trap, and so many great books choose to make them their setting. This week Jacqui, who blogs at Jacqui Wine’s Journal, joins us to talk about some of our favorite hotel novels. It was a delight, and we want to thank Jacqui for the topic and for joining!
What are some of your favorites?
The Republic of Consciousness Prize in the United States
The Republic of Consciousness Prize is a UK prize set up in 2017 to honor small presses who publish unique works. We recently learned that the prize now has a North American variant, set up to honor small presses in the United States and Canada, and we are very excited!
One unique aspect of the prize is how the award is divvied out. Each long listed book and its press wins a share of $20,000 and each shortlisted book wins a share of the remaining $15,000. The winner, as it says on their website, gets bragging rights.
Right now they are getting submissions up to November 30, 2022. The longlist, shortlist, and ultimate winner will be announced in 2023 (dates to be determined).
Upcoming Episodes
Paul and I are still planning out October and November, but the next episodes will come out on October 6, October 20, November 3, and November 17. If you’re into spooky reads, at least one of the October episodes will hit your mood.
Thanks to Patreon Supporters
Once again, thanks to our Patreon supporters. It is due to that support that we are able to pay for the hosting services and have enough left over for giveaways and the like.
To show our thanks, all Patreon supporters get their episodes a couple of days early and get access to a monthly special Patreon bonus episode, which are often laid back conversations about . . . books (well, okay, one episode was about movies)! We’ll have one coming for September soon!
Episode 37 Books
The Trees, by Percival Everett
Dr. No, by Percival Everett
So Much Blue, by Percival Everett
Telephone, by Percival Everett
A Heart So White, by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy, by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pavear and Larissa Volokhonsky
The Trouble with Happiness, by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Michael Favala Goldman
The Copenhagen Trilogy, by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, by Barbara Comyns
My Phantoms, by Gwendoline Riley
The Town of Babylon, by Alejandro Varela
The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel
Psycho, by Robert Bloch
Devil’s Day, by Andrew Michael Hurley
“The Black Cat,” by Edgar Allan Poe
“William Wilson,” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Summer People,” by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
Hangsaman, by Shirley Jackson
Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum, translated by Basil Creighton and Margot Bettauer Dembo
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser
A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
The Hotel, by Elizabeth Bowen
Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, by William Trevor
Love and Summer, by William Trevor
“The Hospice,” by Robert Aickman, from Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories
Compulsory Games, by Robert Aickman
Troubles, by J.G. Farrell
The Singapore Grip, by J.G. Farrell
The Siege of Krishnapur, by J.G. Farrell
The Fortnight in September, by R.C. Sherriff
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Shining, by Stephen King
Misery, by Stephen King
Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
The Feast, by Margaret Kennedy
Black Wings Has My Angel, by Elliott Chaze
The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, by Brian Moore
The Doctor’s Wife, by Brian Moore
The Mystery at Lilac Inn, by Carolyn Keene
Greenglass House, by Kate Milford
The Mouse and the Motorcycle, by Beverly Cleary
The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Other Episode 37 Show Notes
The Republic of Consciousness Prize
The Republic of Consciousness Prize US
Backlisted Robert Aickman
The Lost Booker
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Kazuo Ishiguro recommends The Fortnight in September in The Guardian
Backlisted The Constant Nymph