Alex Edelman & Jen Brister
Book Shambles Live at the Edinburgh Fringe
Another episode recorded live at the Edinburgh Fringe, this time Robin is joined by comedians Jen Brister and mere hours after finding out he was nominated for the Comedy Award, Alex Edelman. They chat about which books inspired their comedy, Jane Austen, Janne Teller, graphic novels, lesbian fiction, Jewish fiction and how Robin helped Alex through a medical crisis many Edinburgh’s ago…
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Reading List
Alex recommends:
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
The work of Isaac Bashevis Singer
The work of Philip Roth
The work of Sholem Aleichem
Reb Kringle by Nathan Englander
The Twenty-Seventh Man by Nathan Englander
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
The work of Alan Moore
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Emperor of Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The work of Darin Strauss
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Second Coming by John Niven
Sum by David Eagleman
Spoiled Brats by Simon Rich
Robin recommends:
The work of Kurt Vonnegut
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby
L’Assommoir by Emile Zola
The Mist by Stephen King
I am Legend by Richard Matheson
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Nothing by Janne Teller
War by Janne Teller
Jen recommends:
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The work of Jane Austen
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Regeneration by Pat Barker
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