#102: Beach Books for the Jaded and Depressed

This week's episode starts with a question from a listener about how translation trends come about, then morphs into a discussion of which books Chad and Tom are bringing on their respective vacations and what makes a "beach book." Rants are raves are random as always.

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And here's the enormous list of books and authors discussed in this episode, pretty much in order of appearance:

• Steig Larsson
• Jo Nesbo
• Roberto Bolaño
• Javier Marias
• W. G. Sebald
• Elena Ferrante
• Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Shadow of the Wind
• The Da Vinci Code
• Santiago Roncagliolo
• Gabriel García Marquez
• Andres Neuman
• Camilla Lackberg
• Rafael Chirbes, On the Edge
• Hard Case Crime
• Lawrence Block
• Emmanuel Carrere, I Am Alive and You Are Dead
• Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions
• Enrique Vila-Matas, The Illogic of Kassel
• Pascal Garnier, Moon in a Dead Eye
• Virginie Despentes
• Marguerite Duras, Moderato Cantible and Abahn Sabana David
• Pierre Lemaitre, The Great Swindle
• Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth
• Deborah Levy, Swimming Home and Billy and Girl
• David Peace, 1980 and GB84
• Derek Raymond
• Michel Houellebecq, Submission
• Bei Tong, Beijing Comrades
• Violette Leduc, Therese and Isabelle