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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: 156 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburgâs âThe Dry Heartâ
Description: RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you wonât be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books. In it, around 50 writers (Ursula Le Guin was one) have made the case for un-forgetting a beloved book. Now, there is a book that collects 40 of these columns. Find it as your local bookstore, or Columbia University Press, or Bookshop, (or even Amazon).
Like our podcast, B-Side Books focuses on those moments when books topple off their shelves, open...