You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mera.

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

This episode we're talking about fancy book extras and interviewing author Alexandria Brown.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

Who says but first?

I think we switch off.

Is that what it is? I think that's what it is. I think we just switch off between the two.

I finished a book that you've already read.

What book? I'm so I'm very busy right now and I found that something that has been easier for me to read

a short stories if I'm gonna read something that's fiction and I

just finished her body in other parties by Karan Maria Machado.

So good. It is really good.ado. So good.

It is really good.

It's really dark.

Dark short stories that range from like,

like just like a dark sort of like retelling of urban legendy sort of things to

somehow coming up with 10 different seasons of Bizarro episodes for Law in Order.

Law on or S for you.

But Bazzaro once.

It's a really, she has like a really bizarre take on everything.

Give me that weird shit. Would you call it weird fiction?

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