95bfm: Loose Reads

Suri from Time Out joins Jonny to chat about a brand new book - Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman. A workplace satire set in a dystopian alternate reality, it follows the underling employees of an Amazon-type workplace and the daily minutae that dictate the experience of the working class strata.

Abby from Time Out brings up Brat by Gabriel Smith! Autofiction, ghost stories, not like anything you’ve ever read before.

Suri from Time Out joins Jonny for Loose Reads today! Suri reviews Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti, an experimental take on the memoir format. In Alphabetical Diaries, Heti alphabetically orders 10 years worth of journalled sentences (with the aid of an Excel spreadsheet). The book is the product of a decade of editing, so that only Heti's favourite sentences remained. Whilst some letters contain many entries, others such as Q only contain one. It's a blend of literary criticism and a peep into an author's most intimate thoughts. 

Jenna from Time Out Bookstore chats about the new book from Megan Dunn - The Mermaid Memoirs.

Suri from Time Out Bookstore visits the studio to chat about Blackouts by Justin Torres!

Jenna reviews The Survivors by Steve Braunias. Thanks Time Out Bookstore!

Suri from Time Out Bookstore reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner.

Jenna from Time Out Bookstore visits the bFM studio to review Behind you is the sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj.

Suri reviews Hisham Matar's My Friends on Loose Reads. Whakarongo mai nei!

Jenna reviews All That We Know by Shilo Kino on Loose Reads. Whakarongo mai nei!