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Regina Porter's pandemic-era page-turner...Brad & Mira continue to sift through the cultural landfill...& more...
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ā¶ļø on the podcast: my conversation with regina porter, author of the novel the rich people have gone away, available from hogarth books.
ā¶ļø on the podcast: vol. 14 of brad & mira for the culture! the return of the royalsā¦the damon/j-lo heart-to-heartā¦.anna wintour shushes peopleā¦j.d. vance wet t-shirt contestā¦& moreā¦ (vol. 15 coming up on thursday.)
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1. sophia nguyen breaks down the booker prize finalists and the national book awards longlists.
2. giles harvey profiles author tony tulathimutte, whose new book rejection is now available. (listen to my 2016 conversation with tulathimutte in episode 409.)
3. ellie pithers on how a collective of artists turned a crumbling brussels building into their own creative playground.
4. sam tanenhaus on the enduring legacy of robert caroās the power broker.
5. diarmuid hester on why queer authors are suddenly writing about houses.
6. emily gould on the first great memoir of the trump years.
7. is culture dying? joshua rothman on french sociologist olivier roy, who believes ādeculturationā is sweeping the worldāwith troubling consequences.
8. acclaimed filmmaker pedro almodĆ³var has written a book he canāt classify. nicholas casey reports.
9. evan mcgarvey profiles author carl hiaasenāāthe mark twain of florida men.ā
10. sasha weiss on the complicated genius of princeāand an epic new documentary about him that weāll (probably) never get to see.
this monthĀ the book clubĀ 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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