You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hey, folks, welcome to a special episode of the projection booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this special episode, I am

talking to Aaron Schulman, the author of The Age of Disenchantments, the epic story of Spain's

most notorious literary family, and the long shadow of the Spanish Civil War. He is going

around the country, talking about his book, and also showing a great movie called El Desencanto, the Disenchantment.

I will have links over to Aaron's website so you can find out where that is showing

and where you can see him selling his book.

Highly recommended for both of those things, definitely check it out.

And now enjoy this interview.

Thank you. And now, enjoy this interview. This is not an easy subject to talk about.

There's a lot of ins and outs and all these things,

so I'm hoping you can kind of help me unravel this whole thing.

Where did it start? What got you interested in this

to me, and this is because I'm a stupid American, to me, this obscure family from Spain?

I'm living in Madrid in 2012 with my wife, who's Spanish, and we'd been there about three years, and I had made a good group of friends, and who knew that I was, you know, they knew I was, you know, a writer, that I loved movies. And so my friend Havi, who's a huge film buff invited us over to his apartment one night, and he just said, you know, there's this

crazy documentary from the 70s. I don't want to tell you much more, but it's about a writer,

a poet named Leopoldo Pannado and his family, and they're really eccentric and it's a wild film.

So we went over and watched it, and the first time I saw, I didn't understand everything

because they speak so fast, and there's a lot of cultural references.

But I remember just kind of being in a state of shock and wonderment, how strange

and wonderful these people were, And I was reading a lot of

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