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Hello everyone. How are you? Welcome to the Other People Show. I am Brad Listy here in Los Angeles. Thank you for tuning in. I appreciate you listening and I hope you're doing all right wherever you happen to be. Today on the program, my guest is Genu Chong, author of the debut novel, Flux.

I found myself drawn to the way that writers my age sort of makes sense of celebrity culture

and social media and that kind of thing. The way that that's been translated into literary

fiction is fascinating to me. I think of the novel, no one is social media and that kind of thing, the way that that's been translated into literary fiction

is fascinating to me.

I think of the novel, No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood, which I read right

around the time I was thinking about this book, and it's almost eerie to read literary

fiction about the current moment.

And I wanted to play in that area.

Okay, that was Gino Chong.

His debut novel, Flux, is available now from Melville House.

It is the official April pick of the book club.

Flux is a novel with a lot of style.

It is a surreal, time-bending narrative that blends elements of neo-noir with speculative fiction.

It is about a young man whose reality comes apart when he suspects that his employers,

at a company called flux, have inadvertently discovered time travel and are covering up a string of violent crimes.

This is a story that is concerned on a thematic level with trauma,

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