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Load up your TBR pile with some excellent reading recommendations from the Papercuts team. Books reviewed this episode: KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw and We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida LK: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler JT: No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood Not books: KD: We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida. LK: The Sopranos on Neon; Obscure Season 2: Frankenstein  JT: The Casketeers season 4 on TVNZ The TBR Pile: KD: Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly, Foghorn’s Lament by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Animal by Lisa Taddeo, Times Like These by Michelle Langstone, My Rock & Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn  LK: The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz; Times Like These by Michelle Langstone JT: The Believers by Sarah Krasnostein, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones, My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee, Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, Luster by Raven Leilani, How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell This is the final episode of Papercuts – for now! We’ll be taking a hi

It’s the most exciting time of the year in the New Zealand book world as the Ockham New Zealand Book Award longlist has just been announced. We also have a line up of three New Zealand books for review and have a wee look at what’s on the reading pile and coming out in 2021. Mentioned in this episode... Books KD: Gangland by Jared Savage, with a mention of Patched by Jarrod Gilbert (HarperCollins NZ) Mary Holm on RNZ’s Bookmarks Gyles Beckford on RNZ’s Bookmarks LK:Victory Park by Rachel Kerr (Makaro Press) Kiran’s interview with Rachel for the NZ Herald. JT: Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey (VUP) Not Books KD: Michael Apted’s Seven Up series  LK: What Writers and Editors Do by Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Paris Review blog JT: Bling Empire and Pretend it’s a City (both Netflix) The TBR Pile KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw, A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion, Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner, The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong LK: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, At Freddie’s by P

Representing Gone By Lunchtime, Dietary Requirements, The Real Pod, Papercuts, The Fold and On The Rag our hosts dive into the key events, issues, heroes and villains of 2020. From National’s botched election campaign to Ben Thomas’ take on TikTok, via the collapse of Bauer, the rise of oat milk, with a detour through controversial frozen grapes and Simon’s Sausage Spot, there’s something for everyone in this year’s Superpod. Featuring special guests producer T and Covid-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The gang are back with their usual witches brew of book news, insightful book reviews and discussions, not-book reviews and their dangerously teetering TBR piles. Books reviewed this episode: KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador/Grove Atlantic) LK: Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt Books) JT: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (Granta) Not books: KD: Magazines are back! Welcome back Metro and North & South LK: Season Two of His Dark Materials and Daisy Johnson’s horror fiction recommendations. JT: Chris Parker’s This is How I Felt The TBR Pile: KD: 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the 2021 Ockhams and books from a Fitzcarraldo Editions subscription LK: White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi and The Residents by Lucy Revill JT: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar and Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey Book news: Shuggie Bain won the Booker Prize!  The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison won the Goldsmith Prize! A book about the bloody Beatle

The Papercuts gals are back to help you navigate the huge flood of incredible books that were delayed by Covid-19 and are now finally available for your reading pleasure. We also bring you our usual winning formula: a hot scoop of book industry news, our insightful book reviews and discussions, our not-book reviews and our dangerously teetering TBR piles. Come up the Papercuts lab and see what’s on the slab! Books reviewed this episode: KD: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Summerwater by Sarah Moss and Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan LK: Sisters by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape) & Nothing to See by Pip Adam (VUP) JT: Deep Work by Cal Newport (Little & Brown) Not books: KD: Gloss on YouTube LK: The Great on Neon JT: Origins on TVNZ The TBR Pile: KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador) and Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt) and 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the Ockhams! LK: The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemison (Orbit), The Swim

The Papercuts team are finally back in The Spinoff studio this month with their usual winning recipe of book news, book recommendations, not books and their ever-growing ‘TBR’ piles. They anticipate the announcements of some big book prizes, deep dive into a hugely entertaining book about the apocalypse, the new Ottessa Moshfegh (Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation), and how reading BWB Texts will make you much smarter. This month's ‘Not Books’ recommendations include Hollywood gossip, Drag Race and getting back to our Baby-Sitters Club roots on Netflix. Books reviewed KD: Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O’Connell (Granta); Funny Weather by Olivia Laing (Picador) LK: Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape) JT: Imagining Colonisation by Rebecca Kiddle, Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson, Ocean Mercier, Mike Ross, Jennie Smeaton, Amanda Thomas (BWB Text); Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End by Ranginui Walter (Penguin NZ) Not books

Book news Ockham results Congratulations to all the winning and shortlisted authors, and especially to Becky Manwatu for her sweep of Best First Fiction and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series  Watch live via the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website. WORD Christchurch now running October 30 - 1 November They need your help to stage this year's festival! WORD is a charitable trust, and it's now easier than ever to donate. More information here.  VERB Wellington confirmed for 6-8 November, with Litcrawl on 7 November NZ Bookstores experiencing boom in Level 2 - Guardian article  The price of literature: writers take on Government over fair pay by Kelly Dennett "This proposition that writers just do their work for love is a scurrilous attack on the integrity of all authors," says Dame Fiona Kidman. Book reviews  KD: A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen (Fitzcarraldo Editions) LK: The Secret History by Donna T

Book news Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist -- the Prize’s 25th year. The shortlist was announced on the Women’s Prize for Fiction social channels: Dominicana by Angie Cruz Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell Weather by Jenny Offill #BookshopsAreBack!! Newsroom has a list of retailers around the country. Ockhams Out Loud The 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards was to be the first event of Festival week and will now be broadcast via the #theockhams YouTube channel. In the lead up over the next few weeks, you can listen to each of the finalists reading from their shortlisted work, with one added each day until the winners are announced at the online ceremony on the evening of Tuesday 12 May. Take a look, and subscribe for updates. Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series Includes Bernardine Evaristo, Lisa Taddeo, Amy McDaid, Anthony Byrt and more. 9am on May 3rd and running live once

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.   Well, we've all said we wish we had more time to read and now we've got what we wished for. Jenna, Kiran and Louisa delve into some book news (that's not too heavy for our weary heads), book reviews, not books and to be read piles. Tune in, switch your brain off and start making some notes for your upcoming, post-quarantine reads. Remember to wait for your local to open again! #bookshopswillbeback #waitforyourbookshop Book news How the NZ book scene is reaching people while we are under lockdown. https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/29-03-2020/how-the-nz-books-scene-is-pivoting-in-response-to-covid-19/ Which includes microbiologist extraordinaire Siouxsie Wiles’ tips on lending books during lockdown: “If you are sharing or borrowing hard copy books outside of your bubble you might want to quarantine them for three days before getting stuck in.” The Ockham Book Awards: Kiran is an Ockham Fiction Champion htt

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 news AWF Programme is out on the evening of 11th March Ockham 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-dirt Patti 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 Das Book reviews KD: Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride, Rest and be thankful by Emma Glass. LK: Separa

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.   BOOKS NEWS: Romance Writers of America Controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/08/romance-writers-america-cancels-awards-program-writer-racism-controversy/ Booker Prize Judges Announced https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51018138 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Announced January 30, 2020 http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation has died https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html?smid=fb-nytbooks&smtyp=cur Margaret Atwood in New Zealand https://margaretatwoodlive.com.au/   BOOK REVIEWS: KD: Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk Weather by Jenny Offill JT: The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid LK: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin NOT BOOKS: KD: Desert

Join various hosts of The Spinoff podcasts Gone by Lunchtime, On The Rag, The Real Pod, Paper Cuts, The Offspin, and Dietary Requirements as we look back at the car crash that was 2019. In this special end of year podcast hosted by Leonie Hayden, we dissect the country's response to national disasters, the highs and lows of MAFS, international literary scandals, the madness and tragedy of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Mad Chapman's Pulitzer Prize-winning chip ranking and more, plus we add our entries to the official The Spinoff 2019 Honours and Dishonours board. Pour yourself a Baileys and settle in. Check out more of our podcasts here including the pop up pod The Spinoff Book Out Loud (The Spinoff Book is available in stores now). If you want to continue to support the work we do, behind the mic or on the site, check out The Spinoff Members, where you can support independent media for as a little as a dollar a week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad ch

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. Band on the Run Can you believe this is our final episode for 2019? In this episode we give a scene report from the first Papercuts band-on-tour field trip where we headed to Wellington for the Verb Festival. And we bring you more book news, book reviews, discuss what we are looking forward to reading over summer, and more! Settle in with Jenna, Kiran and Louisa. Thank you to everyone who has listened to Papercuts, we have loved having you with us and will be back in 2020! BOOK NEWS: New Zealand Festival of the Arts - Writers programme - From Laurie Anderson and Andrea Lawlor to Jokha Alharthi and Tommy Orange - there is so much we want to see! https://www.festival.nz/events/writers/ Kiran's session with Booker International Prize winner Jokha Alharthi and Wellington writer Rijula Das Writing Women's Lives https://www.festival.nz/events/all/writing-womens-lives/ Goldsmiths Prize Winner: Ducks Newburyport

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. After a few extra weeks off, Papercuts are back to chat the controversial Booker decision, NZ Bookshop Day, the Goldsmith shortlist & some exciting upcoming author events! Book reviews and to be read piles are all divulged as well as some not books too. Settle in with Jenna, Kiran and Louisa - we love your support! Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Show notes are below: Book news Joint winners of the Booker Prize 2019: - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. - Article by Galley Beggar Press: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/what-happened-booker-prize-ellmann/ - New Zealand Bookshop Day is THIS Saturday 26 October https://www.booksellers.co.nz/whats-on - Goldsmiths Shortlist https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/ - Zadie Smith - Wednesday 13th November James Hay Theatre https://wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/an-

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. On this month’s Papercuts, Jenna, Kiran and Louisa hold experiment to see what it is like to drink a bottle of prosecco whilst recording. We observe the Booker Longlist, delve into bunch of NZ trade news - including the NZ Booksellers Conference, Industry Awards and Coalition for Books. As always, we review what we’ve been reading and chat about what’s on the reading pile too. Settle in! Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Links: Booker Prize longlist https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/24/not-read-them-yet-a-cheats-guide-to-the-2019-booker-prize-longlist https://www.thebookseller.com/news/booker-tightlipped-amid-speculation-lee-child-will-judge-2020-prize-1064066 Going West https://www.goingwestfest.co.nz/ The Coalition for Books https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018708671&fbclid=IwAR16skideVZlWx_XlDaAgQlawBTuZffm2r52W5XaHLm

In this episode we give advice on how to tackle the ever growing tower that is the 'To Be Read' pile, discuss a recent release that didn't quite hit the spot, and bring you our usual book reviews and raves.  As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST: Book News An Evening with Arundhati Roy http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/videos/Page1/an-evening-with-arundhati-roy-2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults  http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults KD's interview with Tracey Thorn for Canvas, NZ Herald https://www.nzherald.co.nz/canvas-magazine/news/article.cfm?c_id=532&objectid=12248811 Book Reviews LK The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Fourth Estate) JT Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza (Harvill Secker)  JT/KD Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (Bloomsbury) https://www.te

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod and a big thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Book News AWF's An Evening with Arundhati Roy - 17th July http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/news/Page1/an-evening-with-arundhati-roy/   PANZ Book Design Awards - 25th July http://www.bookdesignawards.co.nz/2019-shortlist/  Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 An American Marriage - Tayari Jones Faber & Faber: The Untold Story - Toby Faber https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12237604  AWF Podcast  http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/podcasts/Page3/renee-a-writing-life/   Book Reviews Jenna - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharti - Winner of the 2019 International Booker Prize Kiran - The Years by Annie Ernaux (with a mention of Saltwater by Jessica Andrews) Louisa - Los

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Papercuts: An Auckland Writers Festival Report.  A VERY SPECIAL podcast, where we say the words VERY SPECIAL many times.   Papercuts report from the ground at the Auckland Writers Festival 2019, where a record breaking 82,000 seats were filled over seven days of literary goodness. Jenna, Louisa & Kiran interview Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize winner Dame Fiona Kidman, Pulitzer Prize winning Andrew Sean Greer and the incredible and probably soon-to-be prize winning Elaine Castillo. We also break down the Ockham Book Awards, the Festival Gala, Douglas Coupland, Literally Lorne, Kamila Shamsie, Chessie Henry, Jill Abramson, Alexander Chee, Shayne Carter, Carla Guelfenbein, we attend two book launches and drink a lot of wine.   Th

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Book News: Dunedin Writers Readers Festival Verb Wellington VOLUME Mapua Literary Festival WORD Christchurch - including Shayne Carter with Rachael King Women’s Prize Shortlist 2019 Kiran's sesson at AWF - ELAINE CASTILLO: America is Not the Heart Kiran's review of Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter Unity Book of the Month: Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin Book reviews: LK: All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg JT: Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokaczuk KD: Constellations: Reflections from Life by Sinead Gleeson with mentions of The Years by Annie Ernaux Dept. of Speculation and Last Things by Jenny Offill Steven Toussaint's piece on The Spinoff Books Page: TMI: An Essay on Contempor

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. In this episode we have a special guest! Anne O'Brien, director of the Auckland Writers FestivalWaituhi O Tāmakijoins us to discuss what punters can expect at New Zealand's largest annual festival of ideas and literature. We look at the Ockham Book Awards shortlist, explore the bizarre story of "world class scam artist" Elizabeth Holmes, and bring you our usual book reviews and raves.   As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod   Thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices