Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Abeeb, episode 93, with fiction writer and memoirist and master of the dark arts of the literary imagination, Sarah Maria Griffin.

This is truly one of my favorite episodes that I've ever recorded, and it goes into very mysterious and strange places.

I'm going to talk about that in a second, but I want to remind you that this show is funded

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and Patreon has made that possible for me. It helps me do

the activism and other writing that I do and so on and so forth. But really, it mostly funds

this show. I got to put a lot into the show reading the books, all the books of my guests

and reading their interviews, putting

all that time in, traveling to meet with people, having the right equipment, editing the show,

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one-man show like I am, and I'm just doing everything. So please go to patreon.com forward slash

Connor Habib and do pledge today it makes a big difference and it's the vital,

amazing, powerful pulse that keeps the show alive and going. This episode, like I said, it is one of my favorites that I've ever

recorded. I'm not being hyperbolic. Sarah Maria Griffin is a writer who is new to me. She's an Irish

writer, and I just, as you may or may not know, moved to Ireland in January from Los Angeles.

And I had just heard her name a bunch of times.

I knew that she had written a memoir about living in San Francisco

and that actually our time there overlapped by a year

because I had lived there for six years as well.

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