Friending Thanatos: Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine
b'Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine,\\xa0 joins Eric and Kate to discuss the \\u201csocial industry" \\u2014 online platforms that monetize and manipulate our need to share our lives online. Seymour moves beyond the negative effects social media has on us as individuals and as a community, bringing into view a bigger picture: the social, economic, and political perils that are now at our fingertips.\\n\\nAlso, Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies, returns to recommend Saul Bellow\'s Ravelstein.'