Ryan Fitzpatrick and I update each other on our 2020 reading (this was recorded in August, so it’s not quite up to date) as I finish the #95books Challenge early. Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Music by Patrick Short (aka Electric Candles), who is better known as Kindest Cuts Photography by Michael Sanders of Electric Monk Media Art […]
My guest on the podcast today is regular Ryan Fitzpatrick, co-creator of the #95books reading challenge, and we talk about our reading in 2019, reading in general, and plans for 2020. Ryan’s website contains his reading list for 2019, and all of the other years we’ve been doing the #95books challenge. My list of books […]
My #95books co-creator Ryan Fitzpatrick and I both didn’t read the books we were supposed to read (although we have both read 95 books so far in 2019) and so instead of our reading we discuss how new writers can try to connect with their larger literary communities. Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | GooglePlay | SoundCloud
The legendary Gail Scott sits down with me to discuss her classic novel HEROINE, which is getting re-released by Coach House Books in a new edition with a foreword by Eileen Myles. We also discuss Scott’s under-appreciated novel THE OBITUARY, also from Coach House Books. Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | GooglePlay | SoundCloud
Ryan Fitzpatrick and I co-created the #95books reading challenge (www.95books.com) and throughout 2019 we are going to do regular podcasts where we discuss the best of the books we’ve read so far. We also plan to discuss at least one book we’ve both read and today that book is Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (eds. Hannah […]
New Boy is a novel by Tracy Chevalier that follows the playground love story of two sixth-graders: a black Ghanaian boy, Osei, and a white American girl, Dee. Although set in a 1970s Washington suburb, the story is based on William Shakespeare’s play, Othello (as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project, which sees bestselling novelists retell Shakespeare’s […]
Since I read #95books every year, and write screenplays, people often ask me what screenwriting books I recommend. This page archives my top recommendations. I will update this page regularly to reflect my reading around the topic. Sign up below and I will email you free format samples so you can see the basic differences […]
The #95books reading challenge is simple: commit to reading 95 books over 12 months. I offer a free ebook called You Can Read #95books This Year that you can download through this link, which offers my best tips to help you read more. (Even if you feel like #95books is overkill, you can still use those […]
Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that “Hell is other people,” but Andrew Pyper’s Hell is nothing so mundane. The Demonologist is populated by, well, demons, although Pyper remains focused on the earthly torments of his characters. When literature professor David Ullman loses his daughter Tess after a demonic encounter, he embarks on a journey across countries […]
Deep River Night, award-winning poet Patrick Lane’s second novel, feels like a cross between the early novels of Cormac McCarthy, which revolve around sudden eruptions of violence in rural areas where savagery otherwise thrums as an undercurrent, and Sheila Watson’s marrying of mysticism to similar themes. Lane’s story revolves around Art Kenning, an alcoholic veteran […]
