Ruth Ozeki
Book ShamblesMan Booker Prize shortlisted novelist Ruth Ozeki joins us this week to talk about her latest novel The Book of Form and Emptiness which is out now. They chat about how the book took eight years to write, growing up learning to love books in a public library basement, listening to the voices that guide a novel and her past life working as an art director on low budget horror movies!
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Dreams About H.M. The Queen and Other Members of the Royal Family by Brian Masters
The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
The work of William Shakespeare
The work of Jorge Luis Borges
Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books by Walter Benjamin
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
