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Ep 057 - Tell the Wolves I'm Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Tell the Wolves I'm Home, author Carol Rifka Brunt's first novel, is multi-faceted: it's about different kinds of love. It's about siblinghood, and growing up. It's about the early stages of the AIDS epidemic in the US. There's a lot going on here, to which we add the requisite discussion about pizza-making, podcasting, and how actors remember all those lines.

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0:00.0

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,

0:05.1

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:10.4

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

0:30.0

Like when I start making pizza, like I'm making pizza two or three nights a week and just like getting

0:40.6

better at it experimenting. But beer brewing takes a lot of pizza. I love pizza. Are you okay? I love

0:47.7

pizza. Are you okay? I'm better than I've ever been. But beer brewing takes like four or five hours

0:55.2

the first day and then like five months of doing nothing or not five months, five weeks of doing

1:02.0

nothing. Yeah. So yeah, like unless you have a bunch of batches in rotation, you don't do it for a

1:08.8

while and then you kind of like forget your initial enthusiasm. I feel like I would feel like they

1:15.3

might not be as special if I had a bunch of beers going at the same time. You know, I guess it

1:24.5

depends on how much you're experimenting and how much you like experimenting.

1:30.7

Because part of the fun of learning how to cook a new thing for me is to like do it a bunch of

1:34.5

times and try a bunch of different things until I feel like I have it. So I feel like I have it right

1:39.1

or until I have a few different iterations, right? See, we're a little bit different than I would

1:44.4

keep doing the thing the same way until I feel like I could do it without thinking about it.

1:51.5

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I guess that's

1:55.3

eventually I would settle into that because there are only so many variations on things I think.

2:00.9

There are only so many notes in the scale. I hear you. Yeah, I hear you. It's only so many colors

2:06.3

in the rainbow. Only so many pieces of a suit to wear. What are all the pieces of a suit?

2:17.6

The pants, the jacket, and the vest if you have a three-piece suit. What about the

2:22.8

Commerbund? Is that part of what about cufflinks? What about your shirt and your undershirt?

2:29.8

Well, the shirt and your belt and your shoes. These are accessories and shoes.

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