Hi, I'm Lava Burton and this is Lava Burton Reads.

Where in every episode I hand-pick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.

The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.

Hey y'all, here's a little announcement before we get started today.

I have been recording a new series of interviews for Stitcher Premium that I am very excited

about.

I have asked some of my friends to sit down with me and talk about a piece of fiction that

has impacted them and we end up talking about a whole lot of stuff.

I'm inviting you to listen in on some very personal, thoughtful chats with my friend

Lawrence Fishburn from Blackish, The Matrix Trilogy and his own podcast, Bronzeville.

My friend Aiyusha Tyler from The Talk, Criminal Minds, and my favorite archer, Rob Delaney,

who is the co-creator of the award-winning series Catastrophe, two-time national book

award winner, Jessman Ward.

My friend Amanda Seals, an incredible stand-up comedian and actor from the show In Secure

with East Array, and my old friend and I do mean old.

Brent Spiner, my coworker, the best man in my wedding and from a little show called Star

Trek the Next Generation.

We will also be inviting you to read the stories that we're discussing so consider this your

little portable podcast book club with Lavar.

It's all starting on October 1st on the Stitcher Premium platform with a new interview

dropping every other week.

It's also where you can access every new episode of the podcast, Lavar Burton reads ad

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