Books and Beyond: Happy Pride!

Books and Beyond celebrates Pride this week! Alison Fitzpatrick reprises her reading for the "After-hours Storytime for Grown-ups and Other Family" (Move over Brothers Grimm, the Sisters Gay are here!) which our Grey Lynn Library hosted for the 2019 same same but different LGBTQI literary festival, and chats with Karen about rainbow writing.

Listen to this episode on the Auckland Libraries podcast:

Read on for the books mentioned in the show.

Books mentioned in the show:

• Fairytales for lost children by Diriye Osman (includes the story, "Watering the Imagination" read by Alison
• The spider's house by Paul Bowles
• The collected works of Jane Bowles by Jane Bowles
• Tales of the city by Armistead Maupin
• Logical family by Armistead Maupin
• The golden gate by Vikram Seth
• A boy's own story by Edmund White
• My lives by Edmund White
• Arts and letters by Edmund White
• The swimming-pool library by Alan Hollinghurst
• The trauma cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond.

Catch us on Planet FM104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm. Recent shows can be listened to as podcasts via the Auckland Libraries podcast.