Whoops! We skipped a month. Consider it our summer vacation. But we’ve got a big one this episode.

Here’s the deal: if there is one book you should read this year it’s Brian Goldstone’s “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” The book is an incredible work of journalism as it “…follows five families in Atlanta as they struggle to find stable housing while navigating low-wage work, predatory landlords, a lack of tenant protections, and a system that prioritizes profit over people's basic need for a home.” We’re honored to have Brian on the pod with us to talk about his experience writing such an emotionally taxing work. 

But first: James Joyce’s love for farts. 

Intro:

Olga Tokarczuk - The Empusium

Joyce Carol Oates - Fox

V.E. Schwab - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

S.A. Cosby - King of Ashes

Jess Walter - So Far Gone 

Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins 

JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Series 

James Joyce - The Selected Letters of James Joyce 

Brian Goldstone - There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove

Hugh Raffles - The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time

Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Adrian Nicole Leblanc - Random Family 

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Matthew Desmond

Rachel Aviv

Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed 

Peter Rossi- Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness

Ezra Klein - Abundance 

Toni Morrison - The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations