• Literary Disco Picks Their Favorite Books of the Decade

    David Grann, Lucia Berlin, George Saunders, and more!

    This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod look back at the last ten years of literature—seven of which they’ve been recording this podcast.

    Some of the books discussed in this best of the decade episode…

    David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

    Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial

    Justin Torres, We the Animals

    George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

    Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women


    Literary Disco
    Literary Disco
    On Literary Disco, writers of varying experience talk about books of varying quality. Hosted by Julia Pistell, Tod Goldberg, and Rider Strong.





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