Emma Cline
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Sep 28, 2026
AC WilsonHOST
Mm-hmm
speaker_3HOST
... as well as an interactive feature from The New York Times that takes readers inside the actual studio production of Emma Cline's latest novel, Sweet Sea.
AC WilsonHOST
That piece was so good.
speaker_3HOST
It's incredible.
speaker_3GUEST
It is a grounded, realistic, contemporary coming of age story focused on a Chinese American college student navigating a language immersion program in Taipei.
speaker_2HOST
And to round out this trio, Emma Cline returns on September 8th with Switzy.
speaker_3GUEST
Also highly anticipated.
speaker_2HOST
As is typical for Cline, the publishers have kept the plot details locked in a vault, which is always a massive flex in the publishing world.
speaker_3GUEST
She is zeroing in on that incredibly specific, disorienting feeling of trying to locate your authentic identity while operating in a new geographical space and a new language.
speaker_3GUEST
It's about the vulnerability of translation, not just of words, but of the self.
speaker_2HOST
And then waiting in the shadows, there is Emma Cline.
speaker_3GUEST
Yes.
MJ FranklinHOST
And now, as promised, is the reveal of our October book.
MJ FranklinHOST
In October, we're reading Switzy by Emma Cline.
MJ FranklinHOST
This is also a very moving, very sad novel about a man with dementia, and he is journeying to Switzerland to end his life on his own terms.
MJ FranklinHOST
We follow as he makes that journey, but also as he looks back on his life, his career, and as he tries to settle some of the relationships that have really haunted him.
MJ FranklinHOST
We'll be talking about the book online throughout the month.
MJ FranklinHOST
Right now we have up an article headline, Book Club: Read Switzy by Emma Cline with the book review.
MJ FranklinHOST
Leave your thoughts in the comment section there, and we will also be discussing the book on the podcast that airs on October 30.
MJ FranklinHOST
We hope you'll join us, and until next time, happy reading.
Rebecca PerryGUEST
I'm reading other things, so I'm rereading Doom Painting, and me and Amy are doing an event together.
Rebecca PerryGUEST
But I'm, yeah, halfway through that, and next on my li- list is Switzy by Emma Cline, which is also on the longlist.
Rebecca PerryGUEST
So I'm trying to read the longlist as well.
Rebecca PerryGUEST
So that's what, that's where I'm at at the moment.
Geoff GriffithHOST
Yeah, I really agree about this, the craft in the writing.
Geoff GriffithHOST
It's like Emma Cline can really write.
Geoff GriffithHOST
She really knows what she's doing and it's very expertly done.
Geoff GriffithHOST
The intricate interweaving that you've mentioned really stood out to me.
Alex ClarkHOST
But you got a greater sense of, oh, I don't I don't haven't read anything by that person on that on that list, didn't you? Yeah, and there were,
Toby LichtigGUEST
you know, there were well-known novelists from the long list who dropped off, like Emma Cline, for example, for Switzy.
Toby LichtigGUEST
I was quite, I wondered if she was going to make it, and Gwendolyn Riley as well for The Palm House.
Toby LichtigGUEST
But yeah, the long list was, there was definitely a kind of greater spread.
Sarah Bowen SheaHOST
So well, let's start with one of the buzziest books of the season.
Sarah Bowen SheaHOST
It is Switzie by Emma Cline, and yeah, it's just getting a lot, a lot of coverage.
Sarah Bowen SheaHOST
And so Emma Cline is probably a familiar writer to many of our listeners.
Sarah Bowen SheaHOST
We included her previous novel, The Guest, in our 2023 summer reading episode back when we used to only do book episodes twice a year [laughs] rather than every week.
Sarah Bowen SheaHOST
[laughs]
Liza TreygerHOST
Loved it, loved it.
Liza TreygerHOST
And I started Emma Cline's, The Guest, so.
Kara KlenkHOST
Ooh, okay.
Liza TreygerHOST
And I'm into it.
Brett BennerHOST
But I love this thing.
Brett BennerHOST
It's Switzy by Emma Cline.
Brett BennerHOST
The mesmerizing portrait of an aging man's last pilgrimage from the New York Times bestselling author, The Girls and the Guest.
Brett BennerHOST
A private plane cuts through the winter night somewhere over Greenland.
Alex ClarkGUEST
Well, I think it was a fairly sort of adventurous long list.
Alex ClarkGUEST
And I guess the thing that I've noticed people talking about really enjoying is Emma Cline's Switzy.
Alex ClarkGUEST
I personally really loved Gwendolyn Riley's The Palm House because I love Gwendolyn Riley's writing.
Alex ClarkGUEST
But, you know, it's funny, it's a fair representation of the long list, if that makes sense.
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