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

to help you read better.

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

And I'm Marie Grant, filmmaker and reader.

This episode, we're talking about and solving sort of a big mystery in the book world.

Why books come out on Tuesdays?

Have you ever wanted to know, well, stick around?

We are here to put an end to this daunting question.

The hard-hitting journalism of reading glasses.

But first, what are you reading, Maria?

I just started the new Mona Awad book.

Oh, I know you were excited about that.

As some people, Mona Awad wrote a book called Bunny that I really loved a couple of years

ago that I suggested people all the time.

And this one, I just really love her style of writing.

It's really interesting and introspective and weird and unnerving.

This one is about a teacher, a college professor, and she teaches theater and she's putting

on a Shakespeare play, the Shakespeare play, all swelled it in as well.

And she has like chronic pain.

And it's sort of about her just inner monologue because the students are like not that nice

and it's all about how she feels like a big failure.

In the way that Mona Awad is, again, unnerving, almost funny, but mostly just very different.

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