Katie Runde on THE SHORE
\u201cI missed it so much. And definitely didn't get it or appreciate the specialness of it, or this particular beauty of it \u2026 until you have to show up at a party full of strangers. And answer that,\xa0where are you from\xa0question so many times. I'm not sure I would have written this book, if I didn't have to do that over and over and over again, in so many different places.\u201d That\u2019s Katie Runde, riffing on the Jersey Shore; it\u2019s more than just the setting for her debut novel,\xa0The Shore, it\u2019s a character in its own right. Katie joins us on the show to talk about writing a coming-of-age novel for an entire family, homesickness, grief, sisterhood, jump-starting her own writing career with help from Jami Attenberg\u2019s #1000wordsofsummer + a Catapult class + a Tin House workshop, her literary inspirations for this book and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.\xa0And we end the show with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and his guest bookseller, Becky.
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Featured Books:
The Shore\xa0by Katie Runde
Ask Again, Yes\xa0by Mary Beth Keane
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance\xa0by Alison Espach
We Are Not Ourselves\xa0by Matthew Thomas
Goodbye, Vitamin\xa0by Rachel Khong
Wild\xa0by Cheryl Strayed
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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 full transcript of this episode is available\xa0here.