MashReads Podcast: Author Emma Straub talks her summer love story 'Modern Lovers'

Summer love, meet Brooklyn, New York.

This week author Emma Straub joined us to read and discuss her new book Modern Lovers, a tale about two intertwining families and their summer trying to navigate the relationships in their lives.

Listen as we talk summer romance, longterm friendships and Modern Lovers.

And as always, we end the episode by sharing recommendations:

• Emma recommends Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam and The Super Upsetting Book About Sandwiches by Tyler Kord.

• Isabelle recommends GQ's profile of Kim Kardashian, "Kim Kardashian West has a few things to get off her chest."

• Aliza has been reading The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson and also recommends I'll Give You The Sun, another one of Nelson's books.

• Peter recommends "How Yahoo derailed Tumblr" by Mashable's own Seth Fiegerman.

• MJ follows up with his recommendation from last week (The New York Times' article "Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City"), this time shouting out the Longform Podcast's episode with the article's author Nikole Hannah-Jones, where she talks about schools, racism and writing. He also recommends checking out Radiolab's new spinoff series More Perfect, a podcast about the stories behind the Supreme Courts biggest decisions. 
  

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