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.

I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker in Ereer.

This episode, we're talking about literary retellings

and interviewing author L. L. McKinney.

But first, we're live, I I lost my mind.

Yes, this is also just so people listening to this episode know we are

when we recorded this we live streamed it so it's a little bit more care

than normally is.

But first I'm dying to know, what are you reading, Briam?

I'm reading a book called The Last One

by Alexandra Oliva.

It's about, so I started reading, so I took a little trip to the woods, a one day trip into the woods, and this takes

place, this book is about a reality TV show in which people have to go and do that

thing where they go and they're like like what's the guy's name Bear McKinney or

something that's not it's very McCreary. Big Gil, McGill.

McGreill.

Because Bear Grills.

Grills, I'm saying a composer.

Bear McCreary is a composer.

Bear Grills, eat, drinks his own pee.

Okay. So it's like that kind of like reality, like survival show,

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