Ep 639 - There There, by Tommy Orange

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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There There sets itself apart by being a book by and about indigenous Americans in an explicitly contemporary, urban setting. It's also got a neat perspective-shifting structure and interconnected characters.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:04.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:11.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:15.6	Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh,
0:24.0	uh, uh, Hey everybody welcome to Overdo it's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read my name is Craig my name is Andrew
0:48.0	I Appreciate that I'm a little loopy right now so I appreciate that you we did like the clap that we do to sync up our audio track and then you just went right into it.
0:56.7	Yeah, why wait? You didn't give me a chance to like fall off the fence again into not being ready to podcast.
1:05.0	Yeah, I gotta keep you. I'm here. We're locked in. I'm not over there. I'm over here. You're over here. I'm not over there. I'm over here. That's that's funny. I'm ready to talk about books on this year podcast with you my friend Andrew each week one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it so that
1:26.2	you the listener can learn about a book or learn about our opinions about a book you've
1:30.9	read or both why are sometimes here tell us sometime but Andrew why are you
1:37.0	here what book did you read this I I read this week the book there there by Tommy orange yeah I'm excited to hear about it I've heard
1:48.1	about this but and it sounds kind of neat we did and there's's a sequel coming out. Yes, it came out I think. Oh, it came out.
1:56.4	It came out in February? Came out in February? Wandering stars. Nice.
2:03.0	I think it came out.
2:05.0	It was available to order from one of the publisher.
2:07.0	Well, just because it's ready to order, that might be a pre-order, my dude.
2:10.0	Well, let me see.
2:12.0	You're gonna check it. Wikipedia did not refer to it in the present tense.
2:15.0	Okay, it does appear to be available.
2:17.0	Wandering Stars a novel.
2:19.0	Just in case you were wondering whether if it was a novel or not.
2:22.0	They always say that, I know they always do but this is a novel also there there is I'm let to believe so I but here's the here's the actually the funny thing about that is that it starts with a few essays.
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