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, or Mallory O'Mera.

And Bree Grant is eating a stone.

And I'm Bray Grant after a filmmaker and e-reader.

And scone eater. And scone eater and e-reader.

This episode is all about books that make you happy and we're going to interview black feminist performance artist poet and writer Gabriel Seville.

But first, what are you reading Briam? What are you eating Briam?

That's what I should ask at the start of every show is,

what are eating, Briam?

I am reading a book by a friend of the show

that you've already read,

growing things and other stories by Paul Tremblay.

I'm just not reading it.

Isn't it fucking amazing?

Yeah, I feel bad that I haven't read it previous to this,

but it takes me wherever to get it to a book.

Paul will forgive you.

It's very good. I mean, it just came out in July. I thought I came out earlier than that. Yeah, it's great. It's a

Paul wrote a handful of ghosts and a cabin at the end of the world and he writes very spooky, scary books. This is a bunch of short stories.

The title story, Growing Things is about a world in which some sort of growing thing grows everywhere and like basically

stops humanity as we know it because it's like these giant roots kind of plant

things growing into like every building.

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