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Dear Reader

Dear Reader

By: Michael Collins and Emily Gushue Whalen
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Emily and Michael are two old friends who want to know: What have you read lately?Michael Collins and Emily Gushue Whalen Art
Episodes
  • 11. W, or The Memory of Childhood / Trust Exercise.

    11. W, or The Memory of Childhood / Trust Exercise.
    4 Sep 2020
    Michael struggles with an unconventional mashup of holocaust memoir and sports-based dystopia in Georges Perec’s W, or The Memory of Childhood, while Emily is captivated by the sexual politics of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, yet frustrated by its open-ended narrative.
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    54 min
  • 10. The Innocents / French Exit.

    10. The Innocents / French Exit.
    28 Nov 2019
    Michael is captivated by the brutality and isolation of pre-modern Newfoundland in Michael Crummey's The Innocents, while Emily delights in the “tragedy of manners” and the woes of bored rich people fallen on hard times in Patrick deWitt’s French Exit.
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    1 hr and 4 min
  • 9. My Sister, the Serial Killer / Middlemarch.

    9. My Sister, the Serial Killer / Middlemarch.
    17 Oct 2019
    Michael posits that George Eliot’s Middlemarch (“the most Victorian of Victorian novels”) is the anti-Atlas Shrugged, while Emily considers just how much thicker blood is than water with Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer.
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    49 min
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