Hey folks, today's episode is brought to you by Live Right Press, publisher of the Red Car, the critically acclaimed new novel by Marcy Dramanski. Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me, calls it a wonder, moving, mysterious, and filled with dark, sly humor, the red car rustles under your skin and stays there. By the time I reached its shimmering final pages, I wanted to go right back to the beginning and start again. And Roxanne

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You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.

And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Right, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. Welcome to the podcast. My name is Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. And Meredith Alling is my guest. you look at her name and I think you want to say,

if you're anything like me, Meredith Alling, but I was informed shortly after her arrival here last week that her name is actually pronounced Alling. It's Meredith Alling. And her debut story

collection is called Sing the Song. It is available from Future Tense Books.

It publishes officially on November 18th, 2016. If you're listening before November 18th, 2016,

and you want the book, you can pre-order it at futuretensebooks.com. If you're listening after

November 18th, 2016, you can buy the book wherever books are sold in all the

usual places online and so on.

So sing the song, the debut collection from Meredith Alling, available from future tense books

up there in the Pacific Northwest.

I should add that Meredith, shortly after her arrival, became only the second guest in the

history of this program to enjoy an adult beverage during our conversation, which I know

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