Lydia Millet on DINOSAURS: A NOVEL
\u201cThere's kind of an aspect of melancholy that I love as a reader\u2026 But I can't write a book that I wouldn't want to read\u2026 Although I am interested in just sadness and like a certain beautiful quality\u2026I can't write books that I don't want to live in, and I don't really want to live in just a depressed book. I don't want to just live in a depressed world, there has to be more fire than that.\u201d Lydia Millet \u2014 finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize (Love in Infant Monkeys) and the National Book Award (A Children\u2019s Bible) \u2014 joins us on the show to talk about her latest, Dinosaurs: A Novel, including how the story morphed while she was writing, illusions of normalcy, literal and figurative dinosaurs, how we talk to each other through books, and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer. And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Madyson.
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Featured Book (Episode):
Dinosaurs: A Novel by Lydia Millet
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Featured Books (TBR Topoff):
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
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