Andrew Sean Greer
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Nov 4, 2026
Leah SchnelbachGUEST
Bailey, are you Googling immediately? Maybe.
Leah SchnelbachGUEST
So that one, oh, and then Via Coco, which is by Andrew Sean Greer, who wrote Less, which won the Pulitzer a couple years ago, who I love.
Leah SchnelbachGUEST
I love him.
Leah SchnelbachGUEST
He's like a great guy.
Pat LeachHOST
I've read some excellent fiction in the last few months, and thoughts from those other books came to mind as I read The Emperor of Gladness.
Pat LeachHOST
In Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer, Jeffrey notes that there's a price we all pay for seeing the world as it really is.
Pat LeachHOST
That price is our youth.
Pat LeachHOST
And in The Things We Never Say, author Elizabeth Strout mines all of the energy found in the space between what people think and what they actually say.
Alice DevlinGUEST
loved Less
Bonnie GarmusGUEST
by Andrew Sean Greer.
Bonnie GarmusGUEST
I thought that was hilarious.
Bonnie GarmusGUEST
It was tragic, too, but it was just hilarious.
Tasha AlexanderGUEST
So I have always thought of them as their location.
Tasha AlexanderGUEST
So, you know, we have the Normandy book, the Venice book, and just last night, Andrew was saying, we were watching a British crime drama, and I had a couple of different times where I wanted to use an obscure phrase from British law as a title and I wasn't allowed to.
Tasha AlexanderGUEST
And he threw this phrase out there.
Tasha AlexanderGUEST
He said, oh, death by misadventure.
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Tasha AlexanderGUEST
But then I come back and I start writing because anything else will just distract you.
Tasha AlexanderGUEST
How is there anything easier than being distracted from working? Right.
Tasha AlexanderGUEST
What? you know, Andrew works totally differently.
Tasha AlexanderGUEST
Like he, yeah.
Pat LeachHOST
I'm your host, Pat Leach.
Pat LeachHOST
Today's book, Villa Coco, a novel by Andrew Sean Greer.
Pat LeachHOST
My dear friend Susan recommended that our book club, which includes just the two of us, should read Andrew Sean Greer's new novel, Villa Coco, next.
Pat LeachHOST
I was up for it.
Pat LeachHOST
I had fond feelings for his 2018 novel titled Less, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Pat LeachHOST
Their immediate connection for one another comes up against the fact that Giovanni is married, though it seems to be a marriage for appearances' sake only.
Pat LeachHOST
He develops a plan for keeping Geoffrey both near and dear, and his offer challenges Geoffrey to examine all he has learned in the course of his time in Tuscany at the Baroness's.
Pat LeachHOST
Andrew Sean Greer gives Jeffrey a good eye and even better way of expressing himself.
Jason BlitmanHOST
Okay, David, before we talk about more Sodomy things, because this is What Are You Reading?, I have to know, what are you, what have you, what are you reading?
David LautersteinGUEST
Okay, so right now the book that I'm reading is Aless by Andrew Sean Greer.
David LautersteinGUEST
Fab.
David LautersteinGUEST
This book was a gift from my COO, Scott Wise, who has been so instrumental in me writing this book.