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22. E22: Miranda July's All Fours
26:35||Ep. 22Joel's broken two of his rules this time round by reading a book that is 1) a hardback, and 2) came out this year. It's Miranda July's All Fours, a book where the narrator is supposed to spend a load of money on a life-changing road trip, but ends up blowing all the cash on renovating a motel room just outside town to look like a Parisian hotel suite.
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21. E21: Joel Answers Your Questions
43:01||Ep. 21What's the best writing snack? How important is it to plan your character arc? What do you make of The Hardest Geezer book announcement? Joel answers your questions!
20. E20: Jenny Offill's Weather
28:40||Ep. 20In this episode, Joel's picked out another book that everyone seemed to read before he did. Jenny's Offill's Weather came out in 2020 and is set around the inauguration of Donald Trump's presidency and it's a book that feels like it's set in 2016, but does it hold up in 2024?
19. E19: Benjamin Myers' Beastings
27:40||Ep. 19Joel watched a great TV show based on Benjamin Myers' 'The Gallows Pole' only to find out that everyone had been reading Benjamin Myers for years. This week, he's reading the 2014 novel set in idillic Northern English countryside, Beastings.
18. E18: Jonathan Ames' The Double Life Is Twice As Good
37:35||Season 1, Ep. 18You asked for it, you got it. Joel's read a book that he hated and it's Jonathan Ames' collection of articles and short stories that have not dated well and probably weren't very good at the time either.
17. E17: Anne Dillard's Teaching A Stone To Talk
26:43||Season 1, Ep. 17Joel's got really into heading down to his local pond and counting the different types of flowers and fish he can see after reading a mind-altering set of essays on exploration, faith and nature by Anne Dillard. Good for him!16. E16: Joel Answers Your Questions
32:49||Season 1, Ep. 16Joel's got the answers to all your questions on reading, writing and books in general.