It’s time for our annual look at what we’ve been reading over the summer break.

John, Andy and Nicky discuss David Keenan’s fourth novel Monument Maker; Open Water, a promising debut novella from Caleb Azumah Nelson; Deborah Levy’s three-volume ‘living autobiography’, Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate; a reissue of Percival Everett’s satirical diatribe Erasure; Life With a Capital L, Geoff Dyer’s selection of essays by D.H. Lawrence; and Vivian Gornick’s The End of the Novel of Love and Unfinished Business, in which the author re-reads favourite classic books and comes to fresh conclusions about them.

Books mentioned:

David Keenan - Monument Maker
Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water
Deborah Levy - Things I Don’t Want to Know; The Cost of Living; Real Estate
Percival Everett - Erasure
Geoff Dyer (ed) - Life With A Capital L: Essays by D.H. Lawrence
Vivian Gornick - The End of the Novel of Love; Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader

Other links:

Vivian Gornick, The Art of Fiction no 2 The Paris Review (Winter, 2014)