LoLT: Morgan Richter Recommends Batman and Two New Books

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Melissa & Dave

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about two books: The Divide: A Novel by Morgan Richter and Mina’s Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen B. Snyder (translator). Then author Morgan Richter explains why now is a great time to read Batman comics. Links The Divide: A Novel by Morgan Richter Mina’s Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen B. Snyder (translator) The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen B. Snyder (translator) Morgan Richter’s website, YouTube channel, and Twitter Nightwing Vol. 1: Leaping Into the Light by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo (illustrator) Catwoman 1: Trail of the Catwoman by Darwyn Cooke & Ed Brubaker (illustrated by Cameron Stewart, Mike Allred, Brad Rader) Transcript of this episode. The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Join our FREE Substack to get our (awesome) newsletter and join in chats with other people who love books and travel. Do you enjoy our show? Do you want to make friends with other (lovely) listeners? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Substack Patreon Parts of the Strong Sense of Place podcast are produced in udio! Some effects are provided by soundly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, a hard-boiled thriller set in sunny L.A.
0:05.0	A coming-of-age story set in 1970s Japan.
0:09.1	Plus our distraction of the week.
0:11.2	I'm Mel.
0:11.9	I'm Dave.
0:12.8	This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:16.6	We have an exciting lineup today.
0:19.0	We do.
0:19.7	I'm talking about the new mystery novel, The Divide, by Morgan Richter.
0:23.7	Yep.
0:24.2	And later, she's our guest to share a distraction of the week.
0:28.2	Yeah, she's going to be here.
0:29.8	I think of Morgan as my Duran Duran Duran Pau Morgan.
0:33.6	I met her on Twitter about 10 years ago when I was lurking on the edges of the Duran Duran
0:38.4	Duran fandom. She wrote a series of essays called Duran Alice in which she does a deep dive
0:45.8	into Duran Duran's music videos. They're this perfect combination of affection, irreverence,
0:52.6	and insight. Really? Yeah. She's like the person you wish sat next to you
0:58.6	in the back of class, trying to make you laugh with her running commentary. And then when the teacher
1:04.4	called on her to make her look stupid for not paying attention, she had the right answer ready to go. That's what Morgan feels like.
1:13.6	So Morgan was my Duran Duran Duran pal. Yeah. And then I found out that she's written a handful of
1:19.8	novels and she has this deep experience in the entertainment world, including working on Talk Soup,
1:29.8	one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
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