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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Summary
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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