Episode 32 - Where Literature is at this Moment with Bernie Lombardi

Books with Betsy

On this episode, Bernie Lombardi, a professor and researcher, discusses how his popular bookstagram and award lists are intertwined, along with his experiences reading the lists and even getting to go to the final ceremonies of a few awards! We also hear about his new author obsession and a very cool way that he tracks his reading each year.

Bernie’s Instagram

The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Held by Anne Michaels

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

Books Highlighted by Bernie:

Milkman by Anna Burns

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

We the Animals by Justin Torres

The Promise by Damon Galgut

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman

Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

Other books mentioned in this episode:

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Atonement by Ian McEwan

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

James by Percival Everett

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar

Blackouts by Justin Torres