Ep 294 - You Don’t Need a Tower - Worldbuilding with Annalee Newitz

Reading Glasses

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4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Brea and Mallory talk about worldbuilding, interviewing author Annalee Newitz, and give advice on rating memoirs.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:13.8	to help you read better.
0:14.8	I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.
0:19.6	This episode, we're talking about world building, interviewing author, Annaly Nuance, and
0:25.4	giving advice on rating memoirs with a special call-in from Friend of the Show, Charles
0:31.7	de Vantes.
0:32.7	Very cool.
0:33.7	But first, what are you reading, Bria?
0:35.6	Well, speaking of world building, I'm glad to be talking about this on this show.
0:39.8	I have for a couple of weeks now, and I probably will be reading this for the next 75 years
0:43.8	based on the link of the book.
0:45.8	I'm reading House of Earth and Blood, which is the Crescent City One Book by Sarah J.
0:50.7	Moss.
0:51.7	Oh, shit.
0:53.4	So, Mallory, you and I both are not Sarah J. Moss readers, right?
0:56.4	Neither of us have ever read it, but it's a big glass or author.
0:59.6	Well, previous, now, now, here we are.
1:02.4	All I know is it's about horny fairies.
1:05.0	Well, honestly, I'm 30% in, and there's not, I mean, there's like speaking of horniness,
1:10.9	but there's not, I would not, I would not depict it that way.
1:13.8	I would use her other words.
1:14.8	I would use her other words.
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