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 book devour, Mallory Omera.

And I'm Brieu Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader. This episode we're helping you clean

up your bookshelves and interviewing musician and author Amanda Palmer. But first...

What are you reading, Bria? You know what? I got this really

cute book in the mail from Arkea Press, which is a comic book company who's been sending us books.

This was probably for you.

I don't know.

They were sending us books.

They've been coming to do my house and I have been,

I think I gave them your address too.

It's not, that's neither here nor there. It's neither here nor there.

It's a book called Pizeria Kamikaze,

written by Echkerkaret and Asif Hanukkah,

and it is translated by Miriam Schlesinger.

It's a very short comic. It's a four issues, you know, like it's a trade but it's in a hardback form.

It's beautiful art, but basically it's in a hard back form it's beautiful art but

basically it's about a guy who committed suicide and he goes to an afterlife in

which everyone committed suicide and so it's just him hanging out with other

people committing suicide and now he's looking and he starts to look for his ex

girlfriend who also is apparently there somewhere and so he's looking and he starts to look for his ex-girlfriend who also is

apparently there somewhere and so he's trying to search for it but in this place you think it would be so different

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