Lauren Oyler
Book Shambles
On today’s episode Josie and Robin chat to the writer Lauren Oyler. A prolific writer of articles for publications like Harper’s and the New Yorker, as well as having ghostwritten for many people, her first novel is Fake Accounts about a a woman who discovers her boyfriend is an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist. They chat about the challenges of writing a novel instead of feature articles, the problems with social media in 2021, favourite novels and, of course, lots of other stuff.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
The work of Kurt Vonnegut
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The work of Margaret Drabble
The work of Philip Roth
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The work of Ian Rankin
So Here’s the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco and Lauren Oyler
White City by Kevin Power
Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters
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