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Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
Episodes
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Oct 13, 2016 • 30min
Nadja Spiegelman: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
Since memory is not only malleable but unreliable, which version of the truth will prevail?

Oct 6, 2016 • 30min
Jacqueline Woodson: Another Brooklyn
Another Brooklyn, award-winning Young Adult novelist Jacqueline Woodson's first novel for adults in twenty years, tells the story of childhood friends as they grow into women.

Sep 29, 2016 • 30min
Marisa Silver: Little Nothing
An ugly young dwarf girl transforms first into a beauty, then into a tall woman, then into a wolf.

Sep 22, 2016 • 30min
Affinity Konar: Mischling
In Auschwitz, the infamous Dr. Mengele conducted horrifying physical and psychological experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Affinity Konar's Mischling (meaning mixed blood) is the story of twin sisters who find themselves imprisoned in Dr. Mengele's "zoo."

Sep 8, 2016 • 30min
Adam Fitzgerald: George Washington
Adam Fitzgerald's poetry in George Washington: Poems comes across as playful while exploring the concept of Americana and what that means.

Sep 1, 2016 • 30min
Krys Lee: How I Became a North Korean
Krys Lee's first novel dramatizes boundaries and borders – not just political ones but those that complicate human relationships.

Aug 25, 2016 • 30min
Joe McGinniss Jr: Carousel Court
A married couple wind up in a wasteland of foreclosed houses and abandoned homes.

Aug 18, 2016 • 30min
Tom McCarthy: Satin Island
Tom McCarthy's Satin Island features a protagonist who, as his company's corporate anthropologist, has been given the enormous task of compiling a report summing up the modern era.

Aug 11, 2016 • 30min
Tom Lutz: Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World
In his travels to more than 100 countries – some dangerous, some surprisingly not – Tom Lutz finds that the more places he goes, the more the world leaves him a little bit lost.

Aug 4, 2016 • 30min
Michelle Latiolais: She
Neither a novel nor a collection of stories, the "fictions" in She weave together a composite view of Los Angeles.


