Jonathan Escoffery, Yiyun Li and Ling Ma on The Art of Fiction
\u201cI start with the emotion. I don't know what the story is. I don't know who the characters are necessarily. I'm working on very little like, I'm thinking, \u2018oh, well, the way this light looks through a window\u2019, or something \u2014 very few details here and there. But I don't know what happens in this story.\u201d Join three amazing authors talking about their three fabulous fall reads: If I Survive You\xa0by Jonathan Escoffery,\xa0The Book of Goose\xa0by\xa0Yiyun Li and\xa0Bliss Montage by Ling Ma. The authors speak with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer, about the balance between humor and dread, how they start a project, some of their favorite writers & more.
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Featured Books (Episode)
If I Survive You\xa0by Jonathan Escoffery
The Book of Goose\xa0by\xa0Yiyun Li
Bliss Montage\xa0by Ling Ma
Severance\xa0by Ling Ma
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia\xa0by Moshin Hamid
Passing\xa0by Nella Larsen
Quicksand\xa0by Nella Larsen
The White Boy Shuffle\xa0by Paul Beatty
Moby Dick\xa0by Herman Mellville
Mrs. Caliban\xa0by Rachel Ingalls
The Collected Poems of Frank O\u2019Hara\xa0by Frank O\u2019Hara
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Featured Books (TBR Topoff):
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Artist in the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro\xa0
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell
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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) here and on your favorite podcast app.
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A full transcript of this episode is available here.