Episode 32 - Where Literature is at this Moment with Bernie Lombardi

On this episode, Bernie Lombardi, a professor and researcher, discusses how his popular bookstagram and award lists are intertwined, along with his experiences reading the lists and even getting to go to the final ceremonies of a few awards! We also hear about his new author obsession and a very cool way that he tracks his reading each year. 

 

Bernie’s Instagram

The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Held by Anne Michaels 

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 

 

Books Highlighted by Bernie:

Milkman by Anna Burns 

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli 

The Road by Cormac McCarthy 

We the Animals by Justin Torres 

The Promise by Damon Galgut 

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman 

Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 

Atonement by Ian McEwan 

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro 

The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden 

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein 

Orbital by Samantha Harvey 

James by Percival Everett 

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 

Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar

Blackouts by Justin Torres