#102: Beach Books for the Jaded and Depressed

This week's episode starts with a question from a listener about how translation trends come about, then morphs into a discussion of which books Chad and Tom are bringing on their respective vacations and what makes a "beach book." Rants are raves are random as always.

 

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And here's the enormous list of books and authors discussed in this episode, pretty much in order of appearance:

 

• Steig Larsson


• Jo Nesbo


• Roberto Bolaño


• Javier Marias


• W. G. Sebald


• Elena Ferrante


• Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Shadow of the Wind


• The Da Vinci Code


• Santiago Roncagliolo


• Gabriel García Marquez


• Andres Neuman


• Camilla Lackberg


• Rafael Chirbes, On the Edge


• Hard Case Crime


• Lawrence Block


• Emmanuel Carrere, I Am Alive and You Are Dead


• Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions


• Enrique Vila-Matas, The Illogic of Kassel


• Pascal Garnier, Moon in a Dead Eye


• Virginie Despentes


• Marguerite Duras, Moderato Cantible and Abahn Sabana David


• Pierre Lemaitre, The Great Swindle


• Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth


• Deborah Levy, Swimming Home and Billy and Girl


• David Peace, 1980 and GB84


• Derek Raymond


• Michel Houellebecq, Submission


• Bei Tong, Beijing Comrades


• Violette Leduc, Therese and Isabelle

 

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