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

I'm writer, filmmaker, and bookour, or Mallory Omera?

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

This episode we're talking about small presses and interviewing Joe Beal, who runs a microcosm

press.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I just finished a book that I want to talk about. Oh boy I got I got things to say about this book. I just finished mad black wheel by Josh Malaren. It's about a band. I just finished it and it's very good. It was about a band in this

Like 50s 60s maybe 70s. No, okay. It would actually it was right after World War II.

So it would be the 50s and they are recruited to go there's a noise somewhere in the desert and there and and when things get around this noise like weapons and stuff they get disabled so like there's a nuclear warhead

that became not nuclear anymore.

Just a regular a warhead.

If it's not a nuclear warhead what happens to it?

I don't know.

Anyway, it's just a punk or a metal. And then some people had some guns and the guns got disabled. And then so they get sent out to find this noise as musicians and to kind of like see what the noise is and then the mystery

unfolds from there but basically it's wicked good it's good I have an archivist

I read it yeah yeah you should it's great any it's a pretty quick read I think I

read it quite I read it quite I don't know maybe it's just quick because I

loved it so much I don't know but and anyway it is good it's very spooky and like kind

makes you feel a little like you're on an acid trip you know what I mean like

you're like what is happening like there's a guy and his

face is smushed but he smushed where both of his eyes are on the same side and that's

so creepy like I really want to read this yeah it's good you'd like it you'd

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