#8: High Art and Low Chairs
Take a crash course in Indie Publishing 101 with the founders of Restless Books; hear Scholar senior editor Bruce Falconer explain how John le Carr\xe9 burned the bridge between genre and literary fiction; and learn from Witold Rybczynski how an iconic modern chair was inspired by an ant.
Mentioned in this episode:\u2022 Bruce Falconer\u2019s review of The Pigeon Tunnel\u2022 Our list of 13 \u201cSpooktacular\u201d Books and Michael Dirda\u2019s attempt to out-scare us with a list of his own\u2022 An excerpt from How to Travel Without Seeing by Andr\xe9s Neuman, published by Restless Books, which offers a glimpse inside the surreal operations of Venezuela\u2019s book industry\u2022 An NPR segment on Witold Rybczynski\u2019s new book about chairs, Now I Sit Me Down, including illustrations of the medieval backstool
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