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You are not alone.

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You and I have a friend in common.

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it's really beautiful jesus it what i struggle you know it was incredible you know it's like

your head exploded seeing what was really there and now here's your host brad listing just one

person at just one time right okay, everybody, here we go again.

This is it.

This is other people.

This is two writers having a conversation that you just had with yourself like five minutes ago. This is your life. My guest today is Leslie Tenorio. He's the author of the new story collection, Monstrous, which is available now from Echo. his work has won him multiple awards and honors including the Nelson Allgren Award and

NEA Fellowship a writing a whiting writers award and his work has won him multiple awards and honors, including the Nelson-Algren Award and

N-E-A Fellowship, a writing, a Whiting Writers Award, and he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at

Stanford University. So I'm very pleased to have him on the show. He and I are going to be talking

in just a minute. Before we get started, I want to discuss briefly Jonathan Franzen and Rush Limbaugh,

two guys who have caused, as far as my computer

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