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

I'm a writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory Omera.

And I'm Briar, and I'm Briar Grant, actress filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory Omera. And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about how books get made

and interviewing editor Nava Wolf.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I'm reading a book called Warcross.

Do you know about this book?

No.

It's by Marie Lou, and people say that, and it's true.

People say it and it's also true that it is sort of like Ready Player One one but it's with a female lead and she is like

a teenage I don't know if she's a teenager she's not a teenager she's like a young

adult with a crazy colored hair and she basically is like a person who's like on her last dime

but there's this interactive game that's all across the world and she's a really good hacker and in the opening

ceremony of the sort of like giant you know they're having this huge event she

hacks into it and it sort of sets and then everybody notices that and it sort of sets her life in a different

direction.

So it's I haven't actually read Ready Player One which is weird.

Wow that's weird.

Well I mean it's not weird for me I don't read a lot of sci-fi.

It's come up in the library for me but like not at good time.

Actually it's only come up once because there's such a long weight on it and then I was going to read it and I didn't

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