J Ryan Stradal is Back in the Book Case

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

If you aren't seeing the world through the eyes of J. Ryan Stradal's fiction, you are missing out on something truly special. He writes largely about the Midwest, specifically the state of Minnesota as well as food and drink. That may sound limiting, but his talent is without limit and he fills his pages with themes of family and shared humanity. His newest is Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club. It is the most personal journey he has ever taken. Take the ride with him, you won't be sorry. Our bookstore this week is Comma, a bookshop, (yes, both the word and the punctuation mark) a new bookstore in the Twin Cities that anyone who lives there should line up to visit. Books mentioned in the podcast: Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal The World According to Garp by John Irving Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott The Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, hello and welcome book nerds.
0:08.0	Yes, it's the second time I'm calling you nerds, but I'm establishing this as a tradition.
0:12.6	And I'm going to stick with it.
0:14.1	So hello book nerds.
0:15.5	I am Kate Gibson slash fellow book nerd.
0:18.9	And I'm Charlie Gibson.
0:20.1	I still have trouble with the phrase book nerd,
0:22.5	but Katie takes it as a compliment and therefore I will too. But if the definition is a lover of
0:29.1	books, then I think we all qualify. We who are shooting our mouths off and you who are
0:34.1	listening. We have today a wonderful author who is a good friend of Kate's.
0:41.3	She went to college with Jay Ryan Strattel,
0:43.8	and he has had two extraordinarily successful books so far.
0:48.1	This is his third.
0:49.5	It is Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club.
0:53.0	And, well, you should explain the title. Saturday night at the Lakeside Supper Club. And, well, you should explain the title.
0:54.6	Saturday night at the Lakeside Supper Club. First of all, I probably do a disservice to our
0:59.9	intros because I always say, I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I can't wait. It's probably lost
1:03.9	its power now. I've probably said it so often. But I do get really excited about my job.
1:08.4	So I want you to know, I'm always sincere. But if I'm excited
1:10.9	every single week, this week, I am ecstatic. I went to film school with Jay Ryan Straddle,
1:16.4	back when he just sort of wore black and ski caps and always had facial hair and listened to
1:21.1	REM. And I think I even said this. The last time we had him on, he wrote a play in college.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ABC News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of ABC News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.