You are listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

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

And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode we're talking about the fine points of book etiquette and interviewing author Gail

carager. But first what are you reading Brio? Oh I'm reading a book that was

recommended to us a couple of episodes ago by Elsa Shenzhen Henry the book is not by her she recommended it it is

called station 11 by Emily St John Mandel. Oh my god it's so good right have you read it yeah

oh it's great so I'm only I'm not very far into it so you could probably explain it as well as I can but it seems to be about some sort of worldwide epidemic

Also mixing in Shakespeare as a theme. Yeah, is that sort of the idea? It's basically it's

about both a before and after of like an apocalyptic epidemic.

Like flu-like epidemic. Yeah, it's taken over the world and the after part is this girl and she is traveling

around like this like destroyed North America with a Shakespearean company then they

put on shows as entertainment and they go from town to town and

that's how they make their living. But it also opens up with a big Shakespearean scene

too because the first guy who dies dies publicly or one of the major people who dies

dies publicly publicly while doing

Shakespeare. Yeah. I'm actually not a big Shakespeare like I don't know a

ton about Shakespeare but it's been really interesting so far. It's

wicked good. What are you reading Mallory? I just started a book called

The Blinds by Adam Sternberg. It's on my list. I'm waiting for it at the library.

It was one of my Book of the Month Club picks. Oh, cool. And I just started it but it's wicked good. It's

basically about this town in Texas where people who have had violent paths have

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