• 6. When I Hit You & A Visit from the Goon Squad

  • May 1 2023
  • Length: 45 mins
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6. When I Hit You & A Visit from the Goon Squad

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  • Episode 6 takes on one little known book and one very, very well-known book. Pandora finally reads A Visit from the Goon Squad and falls in love with Jennifer Egan's entire canon, while Bobby has mixed feelings about one of Pandora's absolute favourite books of recent times, When I Hit You, about a woman's violent marriage to a communist professor in South India.


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    Sound by Joel Grove and production by Pandora Sykes


    Books/articles mentioned:

    When I Hit You, The Gypsy Goddess and Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy

    A Visit from the Goon Squad, Emerald City, Look At Me and The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

    Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

    Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood

    Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis

    Open Throat by Henry Hoke

    On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

    Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee

    Jennifer Egan on Radio 4 Book Club

    Stephanie Sy-Quia reviews Meena Kandasamy for LARB


    Books for episode 7:

    Close Range by Annie Proulx

    A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux


    Please note, we will be taking a seasonal break for June, and will be back on July 1st.


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