Ep 69 - Hot, Fresh Opinions and Delilah Dawson!
Reading Glasses
Maximum Fun
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm a writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara. |
| 0:13.4 | And I'm Briae Grant, filmmaker and E-reader. |
| 0:15.9 | This episode we're talking about finding new books to read, checking in on our 2018 reader resolutions, |
| 0:22.0 | and interviewing author Delilah Dawson. But first... What are you |
| 0:25.1 | reading, Brio? I just finished a book and it is called Tell the Machine Good Night, a novel |
| 0:31.7 | by Katie Williams. This sounds so briny. It's one of my favorite |
| 0:36.8 | books I've read this year honestly. It's about a world in which there is a |
| 0:41.8 | machine that you |
| 0:46.8 | you spit into a thing or you swab your mouth, |
| 0:49.9 | you know, like a 23 in me situation. |
| 0:52.0 | It's a machine that you spit into. Yeah, he takes all your |
| 0:54.6 | spin. It's a wonderful machine. And it tells you the three things you need to do to be happy. And they're |
| 1:01.6 | usually really simple things. It's like learn to play the clarinet. |
| 1:04.6 | Get a cat. Get a cat. Read some books. Get an animal is a lot of times on them |
| 1:08.7 | travel, smiling your wife. I am the happiest bitch on earth. Yeah, exactly. And it sort of follows these people who are very unhappy living these lives, one of them being a person who helps administer the machine for other people. |
| 1:23.4 | One is the son of that person. |
| 1:26.0 | So it follows all these people sort of like |
| 1:27.9 | who are tangentially related to the machine |
| 1:30.5 | and the machine process. |
| 1:31.9 | You end up with this horror actress |
| 1:33.6 | and what is taking for her to be happy. |
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