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At the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival, Kate Evans hosts a discussion featuring: Pulitzer Prize winning writer Colson Whitehead, Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton, Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan and acclaimed debut novelist Tracey Lien.

Looking for books to rock you back on your heels? You've come to the right place. Kate and Cassie read Deborah Levy's August Blue, Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto, Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of this Book and Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor, with Miles Merrill, Bernadette Brennan, Jonathan Green and Ashley Hay

Virginia and Louise have read a swag of newly released books both well-known authors and others new  - and only some with the hype they deserve.

Books

Yellowface  R F Kuang Harper Collins 2023

Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead    2023

The Sitter Angela O’ Keefe Queensland University Press 2023

Old God’s Time Sebastian Barry 2023

Podcasts

The Trial of Lucy Letby UK The Mail Metro Media

Inside Design Jane Ledger

Theatre

‘A Twelfth Night’ - Bell Shakespeare Company 

Kate and Cassie read Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto, Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of this Book and Emily Perkins' Lioness with poet Miles Merrill and literary scholar Bernadette Brennan

Kate Grenville, Craig Silvey, Susanna Clarke, Nardi Simpson, Damon Galgut, Christos Tsiolkas and more on their prize-winning books. Plus, former winners Colson Whitehead, Bernardine Evaristo and Anthony Doerr on the impact of winning a major prize.

This week on The Book Drop we're talking about The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead for the second meeting of The Book Drop Book Club. We also  share the books and experiences that changed the way we look at history for query of the week.

All the books, movies, TV and resources we talked about in this episode can be found here — https://bit.ly/TBDep56

Are you having trouble with a reading challenge category? Tell us which one and a book you’ve read recently and we’ll share some recommendations in our July 30th episode. Email us at thebookdrop@omahalibrary.org or fill out this quick form.

Some of the biggest names from the writing world share their top writing tips.

Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde George Flyod isimli siyahi vatandaşın bir polis memuru tarafından öldürülmesinin ardından başlayan olaylar, tüm dünyanın gündeminde ve ortalık durulmak bilmiyor. Deniz Yüce Başarır da Ben Okurum’da bu kez edebiyat aracılığıyla ırkçılığın, ayrımcılığın geçmişine bir göz atmak için yola çıkıyor. Yeraltı Demiryolu ve Nickel Çocukları adlı son iki romanıyla iki kez Pulitzer Edebiyat Ödülü’nün sahibi olan Colson Whitehead, 19. yüzyılda bir plantasyondan kaçmayı başaran köle kız Cora’nın hikayesini anlattığı başyapıtıyla bölümün odağına yerleşiyor. O dönemde Amerika’nın Kuzey eyaletlerinde yaşayan ve kölelik sisteminin bitmesi gerektiğini inanan insanların Güney’deki kölelere yardım elini uzatmak için kurdukları gizli bir örgütün adından yola çıkan Yeraltı Demiryolu sohbetin konusu. Başarır’a bu bölümde her iki kitabın da çevirmeni olan Begüm Kovulmaz eşlik ediyor. Ve Ben Okurum’da hep olduğu Başarır’ın seslendirdiği bölümler de dinleyenleri yazarın dünyasına davet ediyor. 

Some of the biggest names from the writing world share their top writing tips.

Candace Bushnell's Rules for Being a Girl, Carmen Maria Machado's inventive memoir, Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer winning novel and Danielle Binks asks for writing advice from Sally Rippin.

Show Notes

Novel: On the Beach by Nevil Shute

Game: First Winter by Dan Sanderson

Theatrical Play: Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Novel: Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Movie: Mad Max (1979)

Movie: The Day After (1983) (Post-Episode Recommendation: Threads (1984)  )

Game: The Occupation by White paper games

Article: Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect by Megan Watkins on The Affect Theory Reader 

TV Show: Frasier

Game: Death Crown by CO5MONAUT

Games: Orwell series by Osmotic

Games: Off-Peak, The Norwood Suite and Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 by Cosmo D

Game: Marginalia by Connor Sherlock and Cameron Kunzelman

Plugs: 

Cameron's twitter

Matthew's twitter

Ranged Touch

Ranged Touch on Youtube

Game Studies Study Buddies

Two former Brooklyn neighbors (and longtime friends) of Greenlight take the stage as Pulitzer finalist Nathan Englander discusses his novel kaddish.com with Colson Whitehead, in a conversation about family, faith, and the temptations of the internet. (Recorded at the Fort Greene store on March 26, 2019.) 

In a real rollercoaster of an episode, Lauren bums us all out with a history lesson from the Jim Crow era, but have no fear! Megan turns it right around with a real sticky situation in old timey Boston. 

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Nearly two decades ago, author Colson Whitehead began thinking about writing about the Underground Railroad. “I remembered when I was a kid, I first heard those words…I thought it was a literal train beneath the earth,” he says. He put pen to paper and the result was the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad. In it, the historic secret network of safehouses for runaway slaves becomes a make-believe set of tracks and tunnels beneath southern cities and towns. The book tells the story of Cora, a runaway slave who makes various stops along the railroad in her search for freedom. Whitehead recreates the terror black people in the pre-Civil War era faced. It’s an essential read to understand America’s past and present, according to The New York Times. In this episode, he talks about the novel and about the process of writing.

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