Noah Hawley on ANTHEM
\u201cI describe it as a fantasy novel about the real world we live in, or a realistic novel about the fantasy world we live in.\u201d\xa0Anthem\xa0is Noah Hawley\u2019s terrific, page-turning sixth novel, and his first after his Edgar Award-winning bestseller,\xa0Before The Fall\u2014it\u2019s also our January 2022 Barnes & Noble Book Club pick. Noah joins us on the show for a wide-ranging, spoiler-free conversation about breaking the fourth wall, the death of satire, how we can use fiction to help us make sense of a nonsensical world (even when our brains are working overtime \u201cto maintain the illusion we believe in.\u201d), writing for the screen vs. writing for the page, and more, including the ways Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s Slaughterhouse-Five\xa0and J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Lord of the Rings inspired\xa0Anthem.\xa0Featured books:\xa0Anthem\xa0by Noah Hawley,\xa0Slaughterhouse Five\xa0by Kurt Vonnegut,\xa0Lord of the Rings\xa0by J.R.R. Tolkien,\xa0The Unbearable Lightness of Being\xa0by Milan Kundera,\xa0Song of Solomon\xa0by Toni Morrison,\xa0The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides,\xa0White Noise\xa0by Don DeLillo, and\xa0One Hundred Years of Solitude\xa0by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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