Episode 80: Melanie Neale!

On this week’s show, I present my interview with the memoirist Melanie Neale,

plus Andrew Simpson Guthrie shares his memoir essay-in-verse, "The Weighty Page."

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

Check out the Transit Interpretation Project here, or read Ryan Rivas's essay, "Rider's Block," here.

Amiri Baraka, author of Dutchman, dies at 79.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6XmBX9-po

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Read Kip Robisch's "Fun Dads, Loss, and 'Saving Mr. Banks.'"

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant (my co-host of the mailbag episodes), is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this stellar story collection.