The Boys in the Boat's author on how his book got men reading

This New Year's Day, we're bringing you a bonus episode from our friends at KUOW's arts and culture podcast Meet Me Here.

Men are reading less. Reading less than women, not reading as much as before. But Author Daniel James Brown's book The Boys in the Boat broke through and to male readers.

This week we’re getting lit with Author Daniel James Brown and tackling the ~discourse~ to find out how authors like him are writing authentic, complex men. Plus, we give you a ton of recommendations of books and authors that will make anybody want to read.

If you need some help filling that book shaped void, here’s Daniel James Brown and Katie’s Recommended If You Liked (RIYL): 

• The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
• Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Any books by author Tim Egan

Some places we've seen the narrative that men are not reading:

• The Anxiety Plaguing Male Fiction Writers - Vulture
• Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear? - The New York Times
• The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction - The Atlantic
• We're Doing ‘Men Don’t Read Books' Discourse Again. Here's What We're Missing - GQ 
  

   

   

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