The Bookstore

Seems we're in an era of wild scams (hi, have you watched the Fyre Festival docs?) so we're bringing back one of our favorite topics: literary scandals. Tune in for the story of a literary forger desperate to impress his dad, and a wildly popular Man Booker Prize winning novel that is startlingly similar to one by a Brazilian author. Also, we have an update about The Garden Party from a listener.

Next week we will be discussing Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Pick it up at your local bookstore or library, and read along with us. And let us know your thoughts! Visit our website to see Corinne in her tap dancing costume and other things related to this episode.

Articles of interest: Smithsonian Magazine - To Be... Or Not: The Greatest Shakespeare Forgery

New York Times - Tiger in a Lifeboat, Panther in a Lifeboat: A Furor Over a Novel

CanLit Guides - Literary Value and Appropriation

How I Wrote Life of Pi

Wikipedia: William Henry IrelandMoacyr Scliar

Seems we’re in an era of wild scams (hi, have you watched the Fyre Festival docs?) so we’re bringing back one of our favorite topics: literary scandals. Tune in for the story of a literary forger desperate to impress his dad, and a wildly popular Man Booker Prize winning novel that is startlingly similar to one by a Brazilian author. Also, we have an update about The Garden Party from a listener.

This week: corrections, Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party, velour pants, dancing with people when you don't like being touched.

Next book will be Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones.

This week: corrections, Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party, velour pants, dancing with people when you don't like being touched.

Next book will be Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones.

We read and discuss Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel memoir, Persepolis.

Our next read will be The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. Find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us.

We read and discuss Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel memoir, Persepolis.

Our next read will be The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. Find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us.

This week we read The Wedding by Dorothy West, Becca pronounces "chagrin" wrong, and Corinne has been saying "Marjane" wrong for several weeks now, so we actually don't know anything except that The Wedding is a very solid book from the backlist that you should definitely check out.

Next week we'll be reading Persepolis I & II by Marjane (don't worry Corinne has it figured out now) Satrapi so you should, too.

This week we read The Wedding by Dorothy West, Becca pronounces "chagrin" wrong, and Corinne has been saying "Marjane" wrong for several weeks now, so we actually don't know anything except that The Wedding is a very solid book from the backlist that you should definitely check out.

Next week we'll be reading Persepolis I & II by Marjane (don't worry Corinne has it figured out now) Satrapi so you should, too.

Some listener feedback and a discussion of The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. What even is this book?

Next week we will be discussing The Wedding by Dorothy West and the following week, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.

Some listener feedback and a discussion of The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. What even is this book?

Next week we will be discussing The Wedding by Dorothy West and the following week, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.