This week we’re visiting the beautiful Bay Area and popping into the home of Daniel Gumbiner! Daniel is the author of the National Book Award and California Book Award nominated novel The Boatbuilder and is the managing editor of The Believer magazine. We talked to him about Swallows and Amazons, nature, EB White and living in Las Vegas.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – The Sisterhood

Daniel Gumbiner – The Boatbuilder

Arthur Clayton Smith – Natural History of the San Francisco Bay Region

R Tucker Abbot – Field Identification Seashells of North America

Barry Lopez – Of Wolves and Men

Dave Hickey – Air Guitar

Amanda Fortini –Life After Near-Death In The Las Vegas Shooting

Amanda Fortini – People of Las Vegas

Arthur Ransom – Swallows and Amazons

Sarah Harrison Smith – Fact Checkers Bible

Alejandro Zambra – My Documents

Leonard Gardner – Fat City

EB White – Letters

The Believer Festival

The Believer – Border Issue

Boots Riley – McSweeney’s

Jia Tolentino – Trick Mirror

Sam Quinones – Dream Land

Cyra McFadden – The Serial

Armistead Maupin – Tales of the City

Ken Kesey – Sometimes a Great Notion

Chris Kraus – I Love Dick

Marta Becket – To Dance on Sands

David Morris – The Evil Hours

Sarah Broom – The Yellow House

Meghan O’Gieblyn – Interior States

Olja Savičević Ivančević – Adios Cowboy

Richard Maury – Cimba

John Williams –

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