▶️ Back again. Join me and @miragonz.bsky.social as we make another valiant attempt to assess popular culture.

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Today on the program, a conversation w author Chris Kraus.

Her new novel, THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER, is available now from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social.

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Aja Gabel’s new novel, LIGHTBREAKERS, is about relationships and time, love and loss, art and destruction, greed and desire. We get into all of it.

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@ajagabel.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

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Vol. 67...Brad copes with the transactional nature of obscure podcaster fame...decides to attend AWP...Mira's big gay Halloween in Venice...Is Anthony Hopkins autistic?...a Mississippi mama shoots a missing Mississippi monkey...& more...

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Jonathan Lethem returns to the program today, celebrating the publication of A DIFFERENT KIND OF TENSION: NEW AND SELECTED STORIES @eccobooks.bsky.social

A DIFFERENT KIND OF TENSION was the official October 2025 pick of the Otherppl Book Club.

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@donikakelly.bsky.social's new poetry collection is called THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). It’s about life, love, family and intimacy and what it’s like to experience happinesson the other side of a long darkness.

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