In Episode 2 of the Books on the Nightstand Podcast, we first discuss a recent essay in the New York Times Book Review, It's Not You, It's Your Books by Rachel Donadio. Can you find true love if your significant other has bad taste in books?
Then we spend a few minutes talking about some of our favorite authors. Michael likes William Boyd and Jonathan Lethem; Ann's favorites are Ian McEwan and Valerie Martin. Ann shows her cultural illiteracy by confusing John Lithgow with John Malkovich (it was Malkovich that starred in Mary Reilly, of course).
In the last segment, we preview two books that have just been or will soon be published in the next few weeks: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (on sale today) and Peace by Richard Bausch (on sale April 15th).
Full details of all of the books are below. Thanks for listening!
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Books on the Nightstand, Episode 2 (16:51)
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By William Boyd:
Brazzaville Beach, Harper Perennial trade paperback, $13.95, ISBN 978-0-3807-8049-5
The Blue Afternoon, Vintage trade paperback, $14.95, ISBN 978-0-679-77260-6
Any Human Heart, Vintage trade paperback, $14.95, ISBN 978-1-4000-3100-9
By Ian McEwan:
On Chesil Beach, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday hardcover, $22.00, ISBN 978-0-385-52240-3
Atonement, Anchor trade paperback, $14.95, ISBN 978-0-385-72179-0
By Jonathan Lethem:
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, Harvest Books trade paperback, $14.00, ISBN 978-0-156-03248-3
Motherless Brooklyn, Vintage trade paperback, $13.95, ISBN 978-0-375-72483-1
The Fortress of Solitude, Vintage trade paperback, $14.95, ISBN 978-0-375-72488-6
As She Climbed Acros the Table, Vintage trade paperback, $13.00, ISBN 978-0-375-70012-5
By Valerie Martin:
Mary Reilly, Vintage trade paperback, $13.00, ISBN 978-0-375-72599-9
Property, Vintage trade paperback, $13.00, ISBN 978-0-375-71330-9
Trespass, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-385-51545-0
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, Ballantine Books trade paperback, $14.00, ISBN 978-0-345-49500-6
Peace by Richard Bausch, Knopf hardcover, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-307-26833-4
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However, I can't pass up this opportunity to recommend the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Cormac McCarthy's 
The Ruins is a book that will make you forget about the snoring passenger next to you, the kid behind you kicking the back of your seat, and that funny noise you hear coming from the fuselage. You'll hope that Air Traffic Control directs the pilot to circle the airport a few times, so that you can keep reading a bit longer. You'll happily let the throngs stand in the aisle while waiting to deplane, while you sit turning the pages.
And now it's going to be a 
