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Special guest & 2018 World Fantasy Award-Winning Author Fonda Lee joins the show to discuss Mario Puzo\u2019s THE GODFATHER, which influenced her novel JADE CITY! Ink to Film\u2019s Thanksgiving Special focuses on the source material for Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s legendary film.\xa0Fonda is also the author of a series of Young Adult Novels, EXO, ZEROBOXER, and CROSS FIRE as well as holding black belts in both karate and kung fu.

Topics include: not knowing the film is based off a book, the mixed reaction to the brilliant yet flawed novel, Puzo\u2019s background in pulp men\u2019s magazines, the fantastic nature of his gangsters, the fable-like quality of the story, the fantastic use of subtext, the succession of the Corleone Family, the cold brutality of Michael & Vito, the wish-fulfillment sections, Tom Hagen\u2019s position in the family, the disappointing women who embrace their role in the patriarchal family, Johnny Fontane\u2019s dubious plot-line, Luca Brasi\u2019s memorable yet minor role, and whether or not the Corleone's can ever go straight.

Join them again next week when Fonda returns to discuss the film starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Cann, and more!

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