Bobby Finger on THE OLD PLACE
\u201cEver since we left, when I was 13, it's a place that I think about constantly. I think about it in hypothetical terms. It's something that I just sort of lose myself in all the time. I left before things really got complicated. I left when I was 13. What if I had stayed until now? And what if I had left and gone back? You know, the book kind of stemmed from this story that I had been working through in my mind,\xa0all of\xa0these hypothetical versions of myself. And then it turned into this.\u201d\xa0Bobby Finger,\xa0writer and co-host of the celebrity and entertainment podcast Who? Weekly, breaks new ground in his debut novel, The Old Place. Inspired by his real-life roots in Texas, Finger explores the consequences of love and loss in this small-town narrative centered around a retired schoolteacher burdened by a decade-old secret. Bobby discusses his journey to writing a novel, his literary influences and creative process\u2014and more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.\xa0\xa0And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Becky.
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Featured Books (Episode):\xa0
The Old Place by Bobby Finger
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple\xa0
Brideshead Revisited\xa0by\xa0Evelyn Waugh\xa0
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Featured Books (TBR\xa0Topoff):\xa0
Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perotta\xa0
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman\xa0
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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).
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A complete transcript of this episode is available here.\xa0