Working: Pitching Fiction
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:48.6 | Welcome back to working overtime. The Bob Weir of practical advice to regular workings, |
| 0:53.4 | Jerry Garcia. I'm Isaac Butler. And I'm June Thomas. June, there's a lot going on in the |
| 0:59.6 | world today. There's a lot going on in the nation that you have moved to today. I'm going to ignore |
| 1:03.6 | all of that and ask you what cultural thing have you been digging lately? Is there a book or TV |
| 1:09.1 | show or something that is giving you life as the kids I guess used to say? So a couple of weeks |
| 1:14.3 | ago for an episode of working that has already aired. I spoke with writer Casey Parks about her |
| 1:21.9 | amazing new book, Diary of Amisfit, a memoir and a mystery. I read that book. And like many of the |
| 1:30.0 | books that we read for, you know, to do an interview, I kind of went through it a bit. I was under |
| 1:34.5 | a little, you know, I was under the gun time wise. Really loved it. And it keeps coming back to me. |
| 1:40.0 | Really stuck with me. I think it's really well done book. Very just very smart, very well structured. |
| 1:45.6 | One of those books that just returns to your thoughts. So you know, this week I was reading a |
| 1:51.9 | review of a book about encyclopedias. And I immediately thought about just a very short |
| 1:57.2 | section in her book. Maybe just a few paragraphs about wanting encyclopedias. And that's a good |
| 2:03.3 | sign. I think that's a sign that a book is really, it's penetrated your noggin. What about you? |
| 2:08.6 | Yes, especially if you have to read it in the like speed reading way sometimes do before, |
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