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 O'Mara, and I'm Ray Grant, filmmaker, and E-reader. This episode we're talking about

audio fiction that isn't an audio book, and interviewing podcaster and audio fiction expert

Alistair Stewart. But first, what are you reading Bria?

I just started a book, The new Laura Vandenberg.

The third hotel.

Is it good?

It's good so far.

So Laura Vandenberg wrote this book called Find Me, which I liked.

And this book, it is about, it is a book that I wish,

so I want to go to Havana, I want to go to Cuba, and it's set in Cuba.

And I kind of wish I had waited to read it then, except I wanted to read it because it was new,

and I like her work, and I wanted to read her, you know, I wanted to be in on the buzz. So this book is about a widow who is basically coming to terms with

her husband's death by going to Cuba. That's what I can tell so far. I'm not very far into it.

And then I know, like, as far as I am,

she goes and she's kind of a tourist,

but she's also there for this film festival

because her husband was like a fan of these like horror films that this guy made. this film

because her husband was like a fan of these like horror films that this guy made and so she was seeing one of those

movies and she's also a tourist in Cuba so sort of like her experience with that

but then while she's there she Cuba, so it's sort of like her experience with that.

But then while she's there, she sees her husband,

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