Justin Torres on BLACKOUTS
"I wanted it to feel like stepping off the world..."
Blackouts by Justin Torres explores love, loss and the stories we leave behind with inventive and transformative form and prose. Torres joins us to talk about the source material for this novel, the importance of telling queer stories, navigating legacy, loneliness and identity and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.\u202f\u202f\u202f
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Featured Books (Episode):
Blackouts\xa0by Justin Torres
We the Animals\xa0by Justin Torres
Pedro P\xe1ramo by Juan Rulfo
Kiss of the Spider Woman\xa0by Manuel Puig
The Unsettled\xa0by Ayana Mathis
City of God\xa0by Gil Cuadros
Ordinary Notes\xa0by Christina Sharpe
Punks\xa0by John Keene
In Case of Emergency\xa0by Mahsa Mohebali