“Some people don’t want to read about younger people, because they can’t relate to it. But for me, reading a book like Open Water or Sally Rooney’s book Beautiful World, Where Are You, it’s like looking at the lifestyle of people who live on a different planet. That’s how much older I am now, but it’s really interesting to me because people in their twenties look at life differently than I do.” This week, in a new ongoing series on The Literary Life, What Are You Reading?, Mitchell Kaplan and Miami Herald‘s Connie Ogle discuss what books she’s read or looking forward to read this year.

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Some of the books discussed in this episode…

Claire Way Watkins, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness

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Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

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Anna Burns, Milkman

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Connie Ogle loves wine, books and the Miami Heat. Please don’t make her eat a mango.

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The Literary Life

The Literary Life

Mitchell Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years. Enter the Literary Life where every week you’ll hear candid conversations with Mitchell and his guests, including Dave Cullen, Min Jin Lee, Lisa Lucas, Tayari Jones, Tina Brown, and Pete Souza.