Episode 629: Eugene Lim - Search History
Frank Exit is dead\u2014or is he? While eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a bereft friend comes to a shocking realization: Frank has been reincarnated as a dog! This epiphany launches a series of adventures\u2014interlaced with digressions about AI-generated fiction, virtual reality, Asian American identity in the arts, and lost parents\u2014as an unlikely cast of accomplices and enemies pursues the mysterious canine. In elliptical, propulsive prose, Search History plumbs the depths of personal and collective consciousness, questioning what we consume, how we grieve, and the stories we tell ourselves.