{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/677831a8a1ad7348eb9843c7/689e4ddf66f126ae3fc4d1c5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ep 16: Books About Art & the Booker Prize Longlist ","description":"<p>On this week’s bumper episode we cover the Booker Prize longlist before exploring some of our favourite fiction and non-fiction about art. We ask why books featuring artists seem to be so perennially popular and what is it about the artist’s life that keeps us coming back for more.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Book News</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2025\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Booker Prize Long List&nbsp;</a></p><p><br></p><p><em>Love Forms</em> by Claire Adam&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><em>The South</em> by Tash Aw</p><p><br></p><p><em>Universality</em> by Natasha Brown</p><p><br></p><p><em>One Boat</em> by Jonathan Buckley</p><p><br></p><p><em>Flashlight</em> by Susan Choi</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Loneliness</em> <em>of Sonia and Sunny</em> by Kiran Desai</p><p><br></p><p><em>Audition</em> by Katie Kitamura</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Rest of Our Lives </em>by Ben Markovits</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Land in Winter</em> by Andrew Miller</p><p><br></p><p><em>Endling</em> by Maria Reva</p><p><br></p><p><em>Flesh</em> by David Szalay</p><p><br></p><p><em>Seascraper </em>by Benjamin Wood</p><p><br></p><p><em>Misinterpretation</em> by Ledia Xhoga</p><p><br></p><p><em>Orbital </em>by Samantha Harvey</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Current Reads</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>Margo’s Got Money Trouble </em>by Rufi Thorpe</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Night Always Comes</em> by Willy Vlautin</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Books About Art&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>The Original</em> by Nell Stevens</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Artist by </em>Lucy Steeds&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><em>A Little Life </em>by Hanya Yanagihara</p><p><br></p><p><em>Nightbitch </em>by Rachel Yoder</p><p><br></p><p><em>What I Loved </em>by Siri Hustvedt</p><p><br></p><p><em>Blue Ruin</em> by Hari Kunzru</p><p><br></p><p><em>Biography of X </em>by Catherine Lacey</p><p><br></p><p><em>A Month in Siena</em> by Hisham Matar</p><p><br></p><p><em>My Friends</em> by Hisham Matar</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Return</em> by Hisham Matar</p><p><br></p><p><em>Alison </em>by Lizzy Stewart</p><p><br></p><p><em>Daybook: The Journal of an Artist</em> by Anne Truitt</p><p><br></p><p><em>Turn </em>by Anne Truitt</p><p><br></p><p><em>Prospect </em>by Anne Truitt</p><p><br></p><p><em>Wet Paint </em>by Chloe Ashby</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Goldfinch</em> by Donna Tartt</p><p><br></p><p><em>Girl With A Pearl Earring</em> by Tracey Chevalier</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Art Forger</em> by Barbara Shapiro</p><p><br></p><p><em>My Struggle</em> by Karl Ove Knausgård</p><p><br></p><p><em>Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin</em> by Sue Prideaux</p><p><br></p><p>Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gaskill</p><p><br></p><p>‘Olympia’ and ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergère’<em> </em>by Edouard Manet</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"http://annetruitt.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">annetruitt.org</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://whitney.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Whitney Museum of American Art</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://courtauld.ac.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Courtauld Institute of Art</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://jonharveyartist.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Harvey, artist&nbsp;</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>What We’re Reading Next</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>The Compound </em>by Aisling Rawle</p><p><br></p><p><em>Neuromancer</em> by William Gibson</p><p><br></p><p><em>Moderation</em> by Elaine Castillo</p><p><br></p><p><em>America Is Not The Heart</em> by Elaine Castillo</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Curious Readers"}