Nikesh Shukla
Season 3, Episode 4Acclaimed writer Nikesh Shukla joins Josie and Robin this week to talk about his own work including the upcoming collection of essays, The Good Immigrant, plus everything from Spiderman comics to the dirty short stories of Philip Larkin…
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Reading List
Nikesh recommends:
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present by David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Human Acts by Han Kang
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
The Spiderman comics
The novelisations of Star Wars and Star Trek
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Bombay Talkie by Ameena Meer
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
Aerogrammes by Tania James
Life is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days by James Salter and Kay Salter
Robin recommends:
Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla
A Confederacy of Dunces by JK Toole
Neon Bible by JK Toole
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye by JD Sallinger
The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick by Kyle Arnold
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Excavating Kafka by James Hawes
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Jerusalem: A Novel by Alan Moore
Josie recommends:
The short dirty stories of Philip Larkin
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Faber New Poets
Light Years by James Salter
The work of George Saunders
The work of Raymond Carver
Essays by George Orwell
Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla
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