"The House on the Moon" by William Alexander

LeVar Burton Reads

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.9 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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A castle's mysteries begin to slowly unravel. Content advisory: mentions of death, eugenics This episode is sponsored by Mythical Monsters podcast (www.parcast.com/mythicalmonsters)

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Reads.
0:12.3	Where in every episode I handpick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.
0:20.1	The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.
0:27.7	Before we begin today, I'm starting a premium bonus series called Stories with Friends.
0:35.8	It's kind of a podcast book club where I'll invite some of my friends to pick a story
0:41.6	and then we sit down for an in-depth conversation about literature and their lives.
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1:19.6	Now let's get to reading.
1:22.4	Today's story is a fun one and it's written by the National Book Award winning author William Alexander.
1:29.5	William is a Cuban American writer of, as he puts it, fantasy, science fiction and other unrealisms.
1:38.5	I love that.
1:39.6	Unrealisms.
1:41.5	And this piece was collected in a special issue of Uncanny magazine called Disabled People Destroy
1:47.7	Science Fiction, all of the stories by authors who identify as disabled.
1:54.6	Now if you've ever considered what it might be like to live on the moon or even interested
1:59.7	in the way that we might move whole populations from the earth to the moon, this story might
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