Arts
Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.It's February and our latest episode is packed to the gills. We chat trigger warnings, American Dirt, festivals, movies, poetry and of course, have our usual book reviews and TBR piles. Tune in!Book newsAWF Programme is out on the evening of 11th MarchOckham Shortlist is out on March 4th.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED LISTEN: Digging into American Dirt pod: From four perspectives.https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800964001/digging-into-american-dirtPatti Smith helps Portland bookshop after break in.The 2020 NZ Festival of the Arts starts this week, 21 Feb – 15th March 2020.https://www.festival.nz/https://www.festival.nz/events/writers Writers programme including KD’s session with Booker International Prize Winner Jokha Alharthi https://www.festival.nz/events/all/writing-womens-lives/ and Alharthi and Rijula DasBook reviewsKD: Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride, Rest and be thankful by Emma Glass.LK: Separation Anxiety by Laura ZigmanJT: Head Girl by Freya Daly Sadgrove (with a mention of As the Verb Tenses by Lynley Edmeades), In the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoNot booksKD: Three Women by Robert AltmanLK: Next in Fashion on NetflixJT: Emma.The TBR PileKD: The Undying by Anne Boyer, Out of the Woods by Luke Turner,LK: Middlemarch by George Eliot, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, Dept. of Speculation by Jenny OffillJT: Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey, Burn the Place by Illana Regan, Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (in preparation for the June release of The Lying Life of Adults), 2000f Above Worry Level by Eamonn Marra. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.