You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Briei Grant, actress, TV director, and E-reader.

Briei just got back from Bulgaria directing a TV show.

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This episode we're talking about exactly what a publisher does.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

Oh man, so I was in Bulgaria for three full weeks.

I'm acutely aware.

Actually more, like almost a month. Yeah you were gone for like three and a half

weeks and so I read a lot of books and I was just lamenting to you I don't know if that's the

right word but I was talking about how annoyed I was that I kept starting books

and I was like okay this is going to be a great mystery

it's going to get my brain distracted and they would like not be good and then I started like another book

it was like oh it has like a complicated plot and it's going to be great and it was not good and like I just it

wasn't maybe they weren't good they were like I couldn't pay attention to them and

they were not be the right book at the right time exactly is what was

happening because my brain was really full and then I'm just going to talk about the best book I read

while I was there which I know everyone is reading this book but I'm going to talk

about it anyway and then I picked up nickel boys by Colson my head and it was

so good and it was that breath of relief where you go,

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