Welcome to Zero to Well Read, a podcast about everything you need to know about the books you wish you'd read.

I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Sinsky.

Today we're taking on a titan of modern fiction, Salman Rooshty's big bonkers, Booker of Booker's winning novel, Midnight's Children.

Before we jump in though, we just want to let you all know.

This is our last regular episode of this debut season.

A huge thanks to everyone who has listened so far and made it a huge success.

This has gone so much better than we hoped or anticipated, and we had pretty high hopes.

So we couldn't be any more thrilled with the reception. We do have

some fun extras planned for the next couple of weeks. There's going to be a holiday episode about

a Christmas carol. We're going to do a look at some of the award-winning books of 2025 and a seasonal

mailbag. So you can email us thoughts and questions for that to zero to well-read at bookriot.com.

It's starting to get to the point, Rebecca, where people are emailing with all kinds of stuff. Like we had a high school teacher say, thank you so much for doing Hamlin to kill a Mockybird, do X and Y. I guess we're not going to spoil it because we're not talking about the season two stuff yet, but like Huck Finn and Catcher in the Rye. and and i said those are the kinds of books we want to talk about i can't promise anything there's so many there's so many uh we can't sort of rush through them and sort of get them all out all at once as selim does in midnight's children and then someone emailed to say you know there's a big production of edipus going on in london right now That was in London, now it's in New York, and I'm trying to get tickets know, there's a big production of Oedipus going on in London right now.

Or in London, now it's in New York.

And I'm trying to get tickets.

And it's a modern adaptation starring Mark Strong.

And isn't that cool?

And thank you so much.

And can you do Louise Edwards?

Like, we hear you, we see you, we feel along with you, and we are constrained by the same things you are constrained with in your reading in cultural live. But thank you so much

for the enthusiasm. And if you want to channel that enthusiasm just briefly into rating,

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