Ep 076 - This Is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz

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

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🗓️ 2 September 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week's story, This Is How You Lose Her, is a loosely connected collection of short stories that blurs the line between protagonist and author. Junot Díaz's upbringing and personal history are clearly related to that of Yunior, the character the book spends the most time with. But how much of Díaz is in Yunior, and how does that affect the way we feel about them both?

Also on the docket: back-to-school, some talk about how your gender may affect how you come at this book, and lots of other diversions. Enjoy!

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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.
0:30.4	Welcome to Overdo. This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
0:39.5	My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. Andrew was just kind of getting his
0:46.2	getting his life right. I'm getting ready. I'm just kind of getting situated. I got to sit
0:50.2	a specific way in this chair to feel like, to feel like I can talk about books, I guess.
0:56.4	You got to get into your books, sit and pose. You got to sit as a Rodan, the thinker.
0:59.9	I got to lean and get my mouth up on this microphone.
1:03.1	Yeah. So I was doing some shopping earlier. We'll get to books.
1:08.5	But were you shopping for books? No. I was buying food and sustenance and boring.
1:15.9	Yeah, pretty boring. But I had to wait for about 20 minutes in line because everyone was buying
1:23.8	school supplies. Everyone back to school, which I always forget is a thing because I don't go
1:30.2	to school anymore. And so sometimes I'll just go into a story in August and it'll be my
1:35.6	answer. Oh, it was insane. It was it was maybe like eight o'clock on a Thursday night in a
1:42.1	Walmart and everyone was buying a racers. Yeah. I mean, before tonight, you could not say that
1:48.3	you had never seen someone kill somebody over a college-ruled notebook before.
1:54.1	I saw one guy, I don't know if this was for back to school. He was buying like 20 stuffed animals.
2:00.6	Maybe he was throwing a themed party. Maybe he's like a teacher and he's giving everybody
2:04.4	a stuffed animal that they have to like take care of like a like a baby thing. That's possible.
2:10.0	Oh, yeah. Like a like a like that would be a weird way to kick off the school year.
2:15.6	Welcome to 10th grade. I'm going to give you this stuffed donkey and you need to take care of it
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