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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS In this episode Simon and Thomas are back after another spell of bad technical issues to chat about reading relationships and most excitingly to discuss The Readers Retreat 2018.
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The Readers Retreat () Simon and Thomas have an exciting announcement to make that they hinted at in the last show. They are finally going to organise a Readers Retreat, have a listen to their potential plans and how excited they sound.
Reading Relationships () Simon and Thomas ponder the question... as a reader do you have to have a partner that reads too? What could be the pluses and what could be the downsides?
Books Discussed on the Show () To follow.
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In this episode Simon and Thomas finally bring you the episode of their summer book club, in winter, oops.
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The Readers Discuss Strangers On A Train () Simon and Thomas discuss how they got on with reading Strangers on a Train, with help from lovely listeners and their comments and questions.
Books Discussed on the Show () Just Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train and nothing else. Well Deep Water, This Sweet Sickness, Carol and The Talented Mr Ripley also by Ms Highsmith.
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In this episode Simon and Thomas talk about how their 2017 was and what they are hoping for in 2018.
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Farewell 2017, Here’s To 2018 () Simon and Thomas dedicate an episode to saying goodbye to 2017 and hello t o 2018 as they discuss how their reading years were, what resolutions they kept and which they didn’t, plus they look forward at 2018.
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In this episode Simon and Thomas are finally able to chat after almost two months, they have a catch up and discuss their reading horizons.
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Catch Up () Simon and Thomas have a chat about what they have been up to including travelling, book shopping, Man Bookers and other lovely things.
Reading Horizons () The books that Simon and Thomas have read, are reading and want to read...
Thomas has read: Fenny by Lettice Cooper
Thomas is reading: The Angel in the Corner by Monica Dickens
Thomas is going to read: Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami
Simon has read: Weathering by Lucy Wood
Simon is reading: In The Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott
Simon would like to read: Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
Books Discussed on the Show () Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Autumn by Ali Shaw, Elmet by Fiona Mozely, Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, 4321 by Paul Auster, History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
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In this weeks episode Simon goes solo and has a chat with you about lots of bookish bits and bobs. First up he talks through the Costa First Novel shortlist which he is judging, then he discusses book panics and book funks (with several tangents in between) aswell as just some general thoughts on public reading, goals and plans for 2018. It was like therapy for him.
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In this episode, which was actually recorded last month before the Booker winner was announced, Simon and Thomas have a catch-up and discuss their reading horizons.
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Catch Up () Simon and Thomas have a chat about what they have been up to including a lovely video that they made together that you might not have seen yet. You can here though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8VLM3ACrSk
Reading Horizons () The books that Simon and Thomas have read, are reading and want to read...
Simon has read: The History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund and A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
Simon is reading: Her Body and Other Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Simon would like to read: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders or Norma by Sofi Oksanen
Thomas has read: 4321 by Paul Auster
Thomas is reading: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders and Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
Thomas is going to read: Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
Books Discussed on the Show () Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst, The Golden House by Salman Rushdie, Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan, The Three Lives of Elsie by Joanna Cannon, The Gaze by Elif Shafak and the works of Kazuo Ishiguro.
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We'll be back on Wednesday. Simon explains why and what's next in this brief interlude.
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In this episode, Simon lets Thomas have a good old nosey through his bookshelves and they chat about some of the books as they go.
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Afternoon Tea with The Readers () Thomas goes through the bookshelves in Simon’s sitting room, with him of course, and they talk about some of the books that Simon has read and kept over the years. Some they have both read, some are just authors one or the other wants to talk about.
Books Discussed on the Show () 666 Charing Cross Road by Paul Magrs, Pages For Her by Sylvia Brownrigg, The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney, Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh, Nutshell by Ian McEwan, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, The World That Was Ours by Hilda Bernstein, Any Human Heart by William Boyd, Diary of a Provincial Lady by E M Delafield, The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, At Hawthorne Time by Melissa Harrison, Rain by Melissa Harrison, Noblesse Oblige by Nancy Mitford, Pure by Andrew Miller, How To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon by Anthony Marra, Nevermind by Edward St Aubyn, The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling, The Guernsey Potato Peel Society, Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson,Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, The Observations by Jane Harris, Golden Hill by Francis Spufford, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift, A Boys Own Story by Edmund White, Marry Me by Dan Rhodes, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Swimming Home by Deborah Levy, All The Birds Singing by Evie Wyld, The Sundial by Shirley Jackson, A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth, Tin Man by Sarah Winman, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Boy Erased by Gerard Connelly, A Natural by Ross Raisin, I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti,London Lies Beneath by Stella Duffy, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, The Ice by Laline Paull, Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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In this episode, Simon and Thomas have afternoon tea together, in Simon’s dining room to catch up, chat about books and also answer some listeners questions.
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Afternoon Tea with The Readers () Simon and Thomas sit down to a slap up afternoon with sandwiches, cake and scones with jam and clotted cream. They talk about Thomas’ holiday and Africa, what has been going on with Simon and the Costa’s, have a general chit chat and then answer some lovely questions from some of our lovely listeners.
Books Discussed on the Show () Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, Howard's End by E.M. Forster, How To Be Both by Ali Smith, The Octopus by Frank Nors, Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope, Eric Ambler, Monica Dickens, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, On The Beach by Nevil Shute, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Lost City of Z by David Grann, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, C J Sansom's books, The Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Christo, The Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas, Moonstone and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo, Timeleone Vita Come Home by Dan Rhodes, Nutshell by Ian McEwan, The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood, The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, Buriel Rites and The Good People by Hannah Kent, See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt, The Dry by Jane Harper, Ulysses by James Joyce, Anna Karenina and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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In this episode, Simon and Thomas have a big catch up how their year is going so far as they take part in a slight twist of the YouTube Mid Year Freak Out Tag.
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The Mid Year Freak Out Edition ()Simon and Thomas discuss how they are getting on with their year of reading so far. They discuss the highs and the lows and everything in between.
Books Discussed on the Show ()
Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for Her by Sylvia Brownrigg, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Ben in the World by Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, The Madadam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Christodora by Tim Murphy, Carol Shields Anthology, The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble, The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble, Sugar Money by Jane Harris, The Observations by Jane Harris, Gillespie and I by Jane Harris, The Three Lives of Elsie by Joanna Cannon, Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh, Fear by Dirk Kirbjuwiet, The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Dear Mr M by Hermann Koch, Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo, Atlantic Hotel by Joao Gilberto Knowle, The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill, The Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, The Dark Circle by Linda Grant, Angela Thirkell, House of Names by Colm Toibin, Giant of the Senate by Al Frankin, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier, The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan, The Nix by Nathan Hill, How To Survive A Summer by Nick White, Tin Man by Sarah Winman, Capital by John Lancaster, Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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Simon is joined by special guest (and listener) Russell from Ink and Paper blog, as Simon and Thomas’ diaries crashed, but he is back next episode promise. Russell and Simon talk about what makes a modern classic and the joys of giving and receiving books.
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What Makes a Modern Classic () Simon and Russell debate what makes a modern classic, which was a topic that Russell has wanted to be discussed on The Readers for a while. They look at some books which have been called modern classics and ponder why they became so and if they should have become so. They also contemplate some books they think should be modern classics.
The Joys of Giving and Receiving Books () As two people who like to send each other books, Simon thought it would be nice to chat with Russell about why they enjoy giving books and receiving books and why giving can be better than receiving books, imagine.
Other Books Discussed on the Show () Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, Tin Man by Sarah Winman, Christodora by Tim Murphy, How To Survive A Plague by David France, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, The Beguiled by Thomas P. Cullinan, Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow, Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for Her by Sylvia Brownrigg, Stoner by John Williams, Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Buddha for Suburbia by Hanif Kureshi, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, I’m The King of the Castle by Susan Hill, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, Trespass by Rose Tremain, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner, The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood, The Proof of Love by Catherine Hall, The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon, Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell, The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, Ill Will by Dan Chaon, Theft By Finding by David Sedaris, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis – Benn, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, How To Survive a Summer by Nick White
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In the latest episode of The Readers Simon and Thomas discuss their summer plans and the summer reads in their second Summer Spectacular
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Summer Plans () Thomas and Simon discuss what they have lined up over the summer months outside of reading, where are they going on holiday, or what are they doing if they don’t go on holiday this summer. They also discuss how they read in the summer.
Summer Recommendations () Thomas and Simon share five books each that they would recommend you lovely listeners check out over the forthcoming months…
Thomas’ five:
1. The Good House by Ann Leary
2. Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
3. Six Days of the Condor by Paul Grady/A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler
4. The Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
5. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
Simon’s five:
1. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
2. The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
3. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
4. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
5. See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Books Mentioned On The Readers () Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon, Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, The Magician’s Assistant by Anne Patchett, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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After a small break, due to things going on with Simon, Thomas and Simon return to talk bookish places they have been and would love to go as well as their thoughts on something they have never discussed properly... poetry!
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Catching Up () Having not caught up in a while, Simon and Thomas share their news. Thomas has been off gallivanting on another podcast, Reading Envy, which you can hear here. Simon has some very exciting news as he will be judging the Costa Book Awards 2017 which is going to take over his summer…. And his autumn.
Poetry () In the second section of the show they discuss a topic suggested by Carl Anthony Morries who wanted to know what their thoughts were on poetry, which amazingly is something that they have barely talked about before on the podcast.
Bookish Places () Listener Louise Edwards asks Simon and Thomas to discuss their favourite bookish places that they have been and some of the bookish places that they would like to go to in the future… and she doesn’t mean bookshops. Can you guess some of the places that they might wish to venture if they haven’t already?
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After Thomas forgets that he and Simon were recording, Simon managed to find two fabulous guests to discuss BookTube and Daphne Du Maurier with. Who on earth could they be?
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BookTube () Simon is joined by two of his lovely friends and fellow booktubers Mercedes, from MercysBookishMusings and Lauren from Lauren and the Books, who also spookily have their own book podcast too, Books and Blankets. In the first part of the show they talk about the world of booktube, how they got involved with it and how it has changed their lives.
Daphne Du Maurier () In the second part of the show Simon, Mercedes and Lauren talk about one of their other mutual loves, the wonderful Daphne Du Maurier. They discuss how they came to read her, why they love her and have a natter about some of her books including Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, The Birds and Other Stories and Jamaica Inn.
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Simon and Thomas are back to discuss the serendipity of some reads and also Book University.
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Serendipitous Reads () Simon and Thomas have been asked by listener Daisy Baker if they could talk about the serendipitous reads they have read recently. Thomas managed, Simon, has had to go back in time and into the potential future.
Book University () Thomas likes to play the game of ‘what if’ and so he came up with the idea of three terms at Book University. He and Simon get to choose three bookish lessons they would like to learn or subjects they would like to learn about, where they would like to learn it and who they would like to teach them. The results are surprising.
Books Discussed on the Show () Victoria 4.30 by Cecil Roberts, all the May Sarton’s, We All Begin as Strangers by Harriet Cummings, Noblesse Oblige by Nancy Mitford, Vanishing Cornwall by Daphne Du Maurier, A Farm Under A Lake by Martha Bergland, Capital by John Lancaster, A Collapse of Horses by Brian Everson, Six Stories by Matt Wesolowski, A Room With A View by E.M. Forster, Ulysses by James Joyce, The Iliad by Homer, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, all of Wilkie Collins, The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, Spacecraft by Tom McCullough, Physical by Andrew McMillan, Rain by Melissa Harrison, Dear Mr M by Herman Koch, Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
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After a small break Thomas and Simon are reunited together for The Readers and just to get back in the swing they have a catch-up and discuss their reading horizons.
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Catching Up () Simon and Thomas have a good old natter about what has been going on in the six weeks since they last recorded together. They talk library sort-outs, birthdays, the Baileys Prize and some of the best books they have read of late.
Reading Horizons () Simon and Thomas discuss the books that they have just read, are reading and would like to read next.
Thomas has read: The Wells of St Mary’s by R.C. Sheriff
Is reading: 33 Revolutions by Canek Sánchez Guevara
And is planning on heading to: The Passport by Herta Muller
Simon has read: Little Deaths by Emma Flint
Is halfway through: Barkskins by Annie Proulx
And is debating between: The Cast Iron Shore by Linda Grant and Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
Other Books Discussed on the Show () The Life Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo, The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan, The Mare by Mary Gaitskill, The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride, The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill, The Dark Circle by Linda Grant, All Involved by Ryan Gattis, Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift, The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and Sarah Winman’s Tin Man, The Year of Marvellous Ways and When God Was A Rabbit.
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As Simon has some post surgery recovery Thomas is joined by the wonderful Frances as she talks about five books she thinks that you should all be reading...
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Five Favourites From Frances () Frances shares some of her favourite books that you might just want to read.
Frances’ Five (Six) Books:
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
(Also mentioned The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
(Also mentioned Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz-Zafon, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan)
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
(Also mentioned Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis)
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville and Bartleby and Company by Enrique Vila-Matas
(White Fang by Jack London, White Jacket by Herman Melville, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Tepper isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin)
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
(To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Hours by Michael Cunningham)
Other books and authors we talked about:
Hagseed by Margaret Atwood, The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift, Mr. Mac and Me by Esther Freud, William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona McCarthy, Peacock and Vine by A.S. Byatt, Bob Dylan, Patrick Modiano, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Gunther Grass, J.D. Salinger, Sinclair Lewis, Sartre, Your Face Tomorrow trilogy by Javier and The Infatuations by Javier Marias, The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy, At Hawthorne Time by Melissa Harrison, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, At Last, Loss for Words, and On the Edge by Edward St. Aubyn, The Last First Day by Carried Brown, Like Death by Guy de Maupassant)
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As Simon is having some post surgery recovery Thomas is joined by the wonderful Frances and they discuss something that Simon resists, snarky literary pet peeves...
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Literary Pet Peeves () Frances joins Thomas to talk about their literary pet peeves, what really winds them up and what they just can’t stand in books. Something which Simon always used to shy away from... used to, wait until he returns.
Books Mentioned in the Show () Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, Satin Island by Tom McCarthy, The Sellout by Paul Beatty, Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves, Jezebel’s Daughter by Wilkie Collins, Angela Thirkell, Ruby by Cynthia Bond, Iris Murdoch, The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler, Echo House by Ward Just, Consequences by Penelope Lively, Penelope Fitzgerald, Hilary Mantel, A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, Babette’s Feast by Karen Blixen, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, And Sons by David Gilbert, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth, Herman Koch, D.E. Stevenson, Neville Shute, Fanny Trollope, Nonsuch Books, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara, The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Margaret Atwood, Swann by Carol Shields, Sweet Caress by William Boyd, The Many by Wyl Menmuir, Being Dead by Jim Crace, William Faulkner, Bottom’s Dream by Arno Schmidt, James Joyce, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry Green, The End of Days and Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene.
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It is the episode that you have been promised for months and months, Simon and Thomas FINALLY talk about The Sympthiser...
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The Sympathizer () After months and months of teasing you about it Thomas and Simon finally sit down and talk about The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize winning book. They discuss their reactions to it as well as answering your listeners questions or discussing topics that they have raised.
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