You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm Austin, Bookt of Hour, now you're mad.

And I break down.

Don't make your an e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about what the heck, an ISBN number is.

Wow, hard-hitting questions here, you know?

We really dig deep, and we're also interviewing author and friend of the show, Tom Marrett,

who we love so much, and we're happy to have him back.

Yeah, this is Tom's second or third time on the show, but first, Priya, what are you reading?

You've been away.

You're home now.

I, yes, I'm back in Los Angeles, and I finished a book by the new Catherine M. Valente book

called The Past is Red, which literally I think our, I think Madeline Ru talked about

last week.

Or something.

Yeah, it's funny.

I was like, I just heard of that.

Yeah, yeah.

I just repeat a little bit about what Madeline said, but basically, it's a very like somewhat

funny dystopian novella about a girl who lives in a place called Garbage Town.

So basically, in this dystopian world, climate change has ruined everything.

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