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🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio. |
0:07.0 | It was a true revelation and I think it defined the next decade of my life, my reaction to those |
0:20.0 | stories in my sense that I think I know what I want to do and how I want to do it because |
0:25.8 | Carver was kind of showing me the way. |
0:28.8 | That's novelist Tom Perata, author of election and little children and so many other great works of fiction. |
0:40.0 | Talking about the moment he discovered Raymond Carver's first collection of short stories, |
0:44.4 | will you please be quiet, please. He's here today to talk about his background in blue-collar |
0:49.9 | New Jersey, the culture shock of attending Yale and the impact that Carver had on him |
0:56.5 | as he set forth on his own path to writing fiction. |
1:00.9 | Tom Perata and Raymond Carver, today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast everyone. I'm Jack Wilson, the host, the host with the most. |
1:28.6 | The most, that is literally just there for the rhyme. don't have any I don't have the most of |
1:34.9 | anything do I the most angst maybe the most losses the most defeats in life. |
1:44.0 | Oh well, another one of those days. |
1:47.0 | The most wayward introductions. |
1:49.0 | There we go. |
1:50.0 | Award me the crown. |
1:52.0 | Tom Perrada is here today and I can't wait. |
1:55.0 | He's a great American writer. |
1:57.0 | The Steinbeck of suburbia, they call him. |
2:00.0 | Also, America's Chekhoff, and the Master of Suburban Noire. |
2:07.0 | He's a graceful, intelligent, gritty, and very funny writer. |
2:12.0 | You should all check out his books. And as it turns out he's |
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