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Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout on the extraordinary depths of ordinary lives...Brad & Mira discuss the latest in pop culture...& more....
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▶️ on the podcast: my conversation with pulitzer prize winner elizabeth strout, author of the novel tell me everything, now available from random house.
▶️ on the podcast: vol. 13 of brad & mira for the culture! mira’s heat stroke journey…the silly glory of Pitt and Clooney…the Louisville porch pooper…& more. (vol. 14 coming up on thursday.)
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1. franklin leonard’s black list reshaped hollywood. can it change publishing? alexandra alter reports.
2. sam weller on an ill-fated collaboration between john huston and ray bradbury on the 1956 movie adaptation of moby dick.
3. elizabeth harris on author liane moriarty, who has sold more than 20 million books—and would rather not talk about it.
4. the internet archive has lost its copyright suit with hachette. bethy squires reports.
5. sophia nguyen profiles author katherine rundell, billed as her generation’s j.r.r. tolkien.
6. how should we create things? joshua rothman on a new documentary featuring musician brian eno.
7. alice cavanagh on a utopian town in the south of france inspired by ancient pyramids.
8. david robson on how the ‘protege effect’ can help you learn almost anything.
9. adela suliman on the backlash over nanowrimo’s decision to allow the use of artificial intelligence.
10. rebecca traister on how a women-led movement, born in the devastation of 2016, put democrats on the brink of making history.
this month the book club is reading mystery lights, the debut story collection by lena valencia, available from tin house. an influencer attempts to derail a viral TV marketing campaign with her violent cult following. a marriage between two ghost hunters is threatened when one of them loses her ability to see spirits. the lives of a famous painter in the twilight of her career and a teenage ufo enthusiast converge when a mysterious glowing orb appears in their small desert town. and a slasher-flick screenwriter looking for inspiration escapes a pack of wild dogs only to find herself locked in an suv with a strange man beside her. from the all-too-real horror of a sexual predator on a college campus to a lost sister transformed by cave-dwelling creatures, lena valencia's debut story collection, mystery lights, grapples with terrors both familiar and fantastic. available from tin house.
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