Elena Ferrante Book Shambles Special
with Josie Long, Sara Pascoe and Tania Edwards
For pretty much as long as we’ve been producing Book Shambles, Josie has been recommending everyone read the Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante. She even had the first book on her cape in Cosmic Superheroes. So with the My Beautiful Friend series just coming out we thought we should do a Ferrante special with Josie and two other mega fans. So joined by Sara Pascoe and Tania Edwards, they dig into her work and many other tangents. Fair warning though, spoilers abound.
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Reading List
Everyone recommends:
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Josie recommends:
The Invisible Girl by Kate Maryon
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Sara recommends:
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Tóibín
The work of Hemmingway
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
The plays of Sarah Kane
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The work of Iris Murdoch
Love and Trouble by Clare Dederer
Tania recommends:
The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
Stoner by John Williams
Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante
We Are Our Brains by Dick Swaab
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe
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