Nate and Alice’s Book Corner: ‘The Verifiers’ feat. Jane Pek
It's the free one!
For the holiday week, Nate and Alice speak to author Jane Pek about her debut novel THE VERIFIERS, a detective story involving online dating, the ever-present algorithm, the tech economy, and Alice’s long-standing dream to read about a lesbian private investigator. This was a lot of fun for us to record, and if you enjoy it, please reach out! We’re happy to try and make this an ongoing series.
*NOTICE* If you enjoy this episode then you should run, not walk, to pre-order THE VERIFIERS here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671896/the-verifiers-by-jane-pek/
Comments (9)
Make that three! Book Future sound good. Jen is a wonderfully eloquent speaker.
Also preordered but I'm definitely not buying any more books next year!
Pre-ordered. Sounds like a great surprise to get in a few weeks from myself.
Listened to this and pre-ordered the book immediately. Pissed I have to wait another month and change to read it.
Holy shit, a Poirot style detective lesbian who solves crazy tech crimes? Was this book made for me? Definitely do more of this if you can find such absolutle bangers.
Have you read the Claire DeWitt books by Sara Gran? Not exactly the same thing but I really like them.
This is me formally reaching out to say I enjoyed the book club and would like to see more book episodes that are not just torturing Nish Kumar (but I definitely want to see more of those too).
Nate and Alice book club is good
The phone rang, just as she was finishing up her outline for 'yet another podcast, or something', now of all times who could it be? As she picked up, the friendly Midwestern tones of The Producer started on what had no doubt been a practiced pitch... "Alice, Riley's still too sick to make content, I need to send you this book for a special TF book club" She took a long drag on her 'general strike' brand cigarette. She tasted gum, and shoe. as she moved her hand back to fingering one of the nine order of Lenin medals she wore at all times, there was just one question... "Why me?" "Because you are literally unable to stop recording podcasts or planning them" Son of a bitch had her there "So whats the book?" "it's got algorithms and a lesbian detective" "and the rest?" "more than good, it's great" "It better be, or you'll need more than a workaholic like me to make a podcast episode out of it." As Alice hung up the phone, all she could think was that the book sounded really worth picking up especially if it had a well developed interrogation of algorithmic romance...