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 Omera. And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode we're talking about book repair and interviewing author Janelle Malanus.

But first... What are you reading, Brio? I just started a book that I

pre-ordered because I was so excited about it, not even from the library, from Amazon.

I'm reading a book that I pre-ordered as well. Wow.

Mine is True Indie by Don Cosckerelle.

Oh.

So Don Coskerelle made a movie called Fantasm, which I'm a big fan of.

He also made a movie called John Dies at the end which is more recent and a lot people know it went to Sundance and I did a movie with him that he produced and he's incredible and I'm sort of a hero of mine and he wrote a book and it starts I just started it so it starts the very like in his childhood making

indie movies in his first movie he made when he was 18 years old for I think

he made it for $20,000 which is cheap considering they shot it on film and

how he hired all these people who are older than him and they were all not nice to

him because they were like in their 20s and 30s and so yeah it's really it's really great I think it's like a really cool like filmmaker memoir slash like he kind of talks about all the lessons that he learned along the way.

What's it called?

True Indie.

True Indie.

Interesting.

What are you reading, Maui?

I'm reading a book called Alice isn't Dead by Joseph Fink.

Most people know Joseph Fink from the Welcome to Night Vale podcast.

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