An Eclectic Summer Book Preview

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Summer is upon us and you’re going to need a few books to read. Elisabeth Egan and Joumana Khatib, editors at the Book Review, join the host Gilbert Cruz on this week’s episode to talk about a few titles they’re looking forward to over the next several months, as well as some of their preferred reading locations. (Check out our summer fiction and nonfiction previews.)

“Summer reading traditions really have more to do with where I’m reading than what I’m reading,” Egan said. “I tend to switch back and forth between my front porch and my very humble, kind of torn apart and dusty screen porch. I alternate between the two at different times of day, and then I like to read by as many bodies of water as I possibly can, preferably at the beach, sometimes at the pool, and I like to really see how much water a given book can hold before being illegible.”

Books discussed in this episode:

“Farewell, Amethystine,” by Walter Mosley

“The Cliffs,” by J. Courtney Sullivan

“Horror Movie,” by Paul Tremblay

“Liars,” by Sarah Manguso

“The God of the Woods,” by Liz Moore

“The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur,” by Lev Grossman

“Pearl,” by Siân Hughes

“Sandwich,” by Catherine Newman

“The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982,” by Chris Nashawaty

“An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work,” by Charlotte Shane

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