Episode · The Book Review · 2022-09-16
Andrew Sean Greer on The Book Review: books mentioned
Andrew Sean Greer on Writing ‘Less’
Gilbert Cruz discussed Less by Andrew Sean Greer and Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Less
Less by Andrew Sean Greer is a comedic novel that follows a failed novelist nearing fifty who accepts a series of haphazard international literary events to escape a wedding.
Discussed“Andrew Shan Greer joins us now his new novel is called less and it is on the cover of the New York Times book review this week”
Where to get it
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life is a memoir by William Finnegan that chronicles a lifelong passion for surfing alongside his distinguished career as a New Yorker staff writer and war reporter.
Discussed“he is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of a new book Barbarian days of surfing Life reviewed this week in the book review”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Less
“in 2017 Andrew Shan Greer released his comic novel Les the following year”
Passing Less Is Lost
“Greer's new book less is lost is a sequel to that prize-winning novel and we're using this as an opport to look back on a conversation that he had 5 years ago with then book review editor Pamela Paul”
Passing Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
“that's when we spoke to William finegan the New Yorker staff writer about his Memoir Barbarian days which details his life traveling through many parts of the world chasing his surfing Obsession”