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Close Reads Podcast

Everything Sad Is Untrue Q&A (feat. Daniel Nayeri)

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to answer listener questions about Everything Sad Is Untrue and we have the great honor of doing that alongside the man himself, Daniel Nayeri. So press play and listen as we chat about Daniel’s mom, the way the story evolved, his journey in writing it, deckled edges from the author’s perspectives, and much more! Happy listening!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm David Kern.

0:04.0

I'm Heidi White.

0:05.5

I'm Sean Johnson.

0:07.0

And I'm Daniel Nayari.

0:08.5

That's right.

0:09.5

This is Closer Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Daniel

0:14.6

Nairi's book with Daniel Nairi.

0:17.3

Daniel, we are so thrilled to have you here and talk about everything sad as untrue to answer some questions.

0:22.5

It's just, it's an honor to have you here.

0:24.9

Thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here.

0:26.7

You know, I think, yeah, close reading is just the biggest honor you can possibly have.

0:31.9

So this is my cup of tea and my favorite kind of podcast. So thank you.

0:40.0

Well, we're going to turn things over here to a bunch of questions from the audience on our Substack page, closewreaths.substack.com,

0:46.8

for those who don't know, and also on our Facebook page, Facebook group. But first,

0:51.0

though, Heidi, you claim to be

0:55.0

Daniel's greatest

0:56.6

number one fan

0:57.4

so given that

0:59.0

do you want to

1:00.1

do you want to say anything

1:01.9

so we need to get some

1:02.7

fan girling out of the way

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