Brian Ler on WNYC, and we end today with one last installment in our summer culture mini-series,

which we've been doing at the end of all these membership drive shows.

Today, it's what books to pack or download for beach or park bench or a sofa by the AC

reading this summer. And we are borrowing our guide for this from across the hall,

all of it producer Jordan Lauf. Hey, Jordan, thanks for coming on with us today with some must

reads for the summer before your own show with Allison starts. Hi. Hi, thanks so much for

having me, Brian. Always a pleasure to be on. And I see the top of your list is the latest from

someone who has to be one of the top beach read authors of all time. And I think he's just on

your show, wasn't he? Carl Heison. Yes, Carl Hein was just on all of it, and in fact, his new book has Beach in the title.

So his latest novel is called Fever Beach. It's out now. And he was just telling us on the show

how many of the absurd details in this novel, because, you know, he's known for this sort of,

like, outsized satire about people in Florida. They're not as absurd as you might think. A lot of them

were drawn from real people and things that he witnessed. He's also a journalist for a long time in

Florida. So this new one, Fever Beach, is about a white supremacist in Florida,

who is so inept that he is actually kicked out of the proud boys and decides to start

his own sort of failing white supremacist movement. They've also teamed up with a corrupt

congressman to sort of go forward with this plan they've

concocted, but he might get thwarted by his liberal roommate, a woman named Viva, who is trying

to sort of take him down behind the scenes.

So it's laugh out loud funny, genuinely, and just a really, really good time.

I will say I am a big,

long time Carl Heison fan and having him turn his social satire fiction onto the proud boys

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