Ep 104 - Empty Planets, Trains and Swamps and Deb Spera!

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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Brea and Mallory talk about a book’s sense of place and interview author Deb Spera! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - The Great Courses The Art of Reading TheGreatCourses.com/glasses Sponsor - Arm and Hammer Cloud Control Cat Litter Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Deb Spera https://twitter.com/DebSpera Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera Books Mentioned - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey The Book of Flying by Keith Miller The Power by Naomi Alderman Bloodchild by Octavia Butler The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley The Gloaming by Melanie Finn Melmoth by Sarah Perry Infomocracy by Malka Older Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender Amatka (Paperback) By Karin Tidbeck A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward There There by Tommy Orange An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Country Dark by Chris Offutt Southernmost by Silas House My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

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0:00.0	You're listening to reading glasses a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better
0:07.7	I'm author filmmaker and book devour Mallory America and I'm Greg Grant
0:11.2	actress filmmaker and e-reader.
0:13.0	This episode, we're talking about setting and a sense of place in books and interviewing author, Deb Sparrow.
0:19.0	But first, what are you reading, Bruh.
0:21.0	So we're doing these out of order.
0:23.5	We are.
0:24.5	And this one's recording first,
0:26.0	and it's going to be confusing, because I'm going to talk about a book,
0:28.5	but y'all have already heard us talk about this book,
0:30.5	but I'm going to talk about it again,
0:31.5	because you know what? I loved the book, and I want to give it more of a shout out.
0:35.0	It's really good. I finished reading maybe a couple of days ago
0:40.0	Magic for Liars by Sarah Gaily.
0:42.0	Sarah Galey.
0:42.8	Sarah motherfucking Galey.
0:43.8	Yeah, which is very good.
0:45.9	It should be out by the time this episode comes out.
0:49.2	I thought it was so magical.
0:51.8	Magical for Liarsars you might say.
0:55.0	It is, I think you already talked about it on the show,
0:57.0	but to do a quick recap, a very, I would say, here's my pitch.
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