Episode description
A.O. Scott, critic at The New York Times Book Review joins us to talk about what he looks for in literature, why we read the things we do, his path to a career in journalism and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
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Featured Books (Episode):
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Middlemarch by George Eliot
James by Percival Everett
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence
Better Living Through Criticism by A.O. Scott
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones