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Greg Cowles’s book recommendations in 2018

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Every episode from 2018, newest first

Tyranny in Rome and Fake Drugs in Fiction

The Book Review · 2018-12-28

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 51:01
Last stories by William Trevor · recommended · at 51:40

Isabel Wilkerson Talks About Michelle Obama’s Memoir

The Book Review · 2018-12-21

Home cooking by Laurie Colwin · recommended · at 57:21

Poetry & Politics

The Book Review · 2018-12-14

Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith · discussed · at 5:55
Hey, Marfa by Jeffrey Yang · discussed · at 12:47
Evolution by Eileen Myles · discussed · at 13:47
Museum of the Americas by J. Michael Martinez · discussed · at 14:41

Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2018

The Book Review · 2018-11-30

The Overstory by Richard Powers · recommended · at 50:46
Heavy by Kiese Laymon · recommended · at 52:24

The Epic Tragedy of Vietnam

The Book Review · 2018-11-21

Ulyses by James Joyce · discussed · at 37:48

Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire

The Book Review · 2018-10-19

Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck · discussed · at 43:00
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee · discussed · at 44:26

Kate Atkinson on 'Transcription'

The Book Review · 2018-10-05

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai · discussed · at 42:27

Esi Edugyan on Her Booker-Shortlisted 'Washington Black'

The Book Review · 2018-09-21

The best American essays of the century by Joyce Carol Oates · discussed · at 42:28
Fifty Best American Short Stories by Martha Foley · discussed · at 42:28
The best American nonrequired reading, 2003 by Dave Eggers · discussed · at 42:42
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan · recommended · at 44:52

Drawing History

The Book Review · 2018-07-27

The English and their history by Robert Tombs · discussed · at 47:52

From Transcribing for Obama to Writing Her Own Story

The Book Review · 2018-07-13

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 59:38

An Inside View of Putin

The Book Review · 2018-07-06

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 48:52
The Odyssey by Homer · discussed · at 49:00

Michael Pollan on His Acid Test

The Book Review · 2018-06-08

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 46:36

David Sedaris on ‘Calypso’

The Book Review · 2018-05-25

Pet Sematary by Stephen King · discussed · at 1:14:58
Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 1:16:58

Amy Chozick on 'Chasing Hillary'

The Book Review · 2018-05-11

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 51:36
All who go do not return by Shulem Deen · discussed · at 52:10
Love and ruin by Paula McLain · discussed · at 52:49
The Paris wife by Paula McLain · discussed · at 52:54

Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens

The Book Review · 2018-04-13

Ulysses by James Joyce · recommended · at 38:11
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce · discussed · at 39:52

All in the Family

The Book Review · 2018-03-30

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 38:13

Impeachment, Then and Now

The Book Review · 2018-03-16

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 46:52

Laura Lippman on 'Sunburn'

The Book Review · 2018-02-09

The informed air by Muriel Spark · discussed · at 35:36
A good comb by Muriel Spark · discussed · at 35:55

Twilight's Last Gleaming?

The Book Review · 2018-01-26

Bluebird, bluebird by Attica Locke · recommended · at 53:12

Some Assembly Required

The Book Review · 2018-01-12

The Nothing by Hanif Kureishi · discussed · at 40:07

What to Read About North Korea

The Book Review · 2018-01-05

Winter by Karl Ove Knausgård · discussed · at 48:32
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård · discussed · at 48:58

Other mentions in 2018 (8: passing, ad reads, own books)