On this week’s show, I talk to the nonfiction writer Sayantani Dasgupta about creative nonfiction, the romance of reading, and the powerful appeal of the in-between.

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Listen to Sayantani's essay about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea here.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction.”

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Read David Foster Wallace’s 1993 essay “E Unibus Plurim: Television and U.S. Fiction” here.

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On this week’s show, I talk to the nonfiction writer Pamela Skjolsvik about creative nonfiction, anxiety, and death,

plus I briefly eulogize a triumvirate of entertainers: Leonard Cohen, Robert Vaughn, and Kevin Meaney.

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Check out Pamela Skjolsvik's essay about David Sedaris back on episode 50.

Miami Book Fair International‘s amazing weekend street fair will take place on November 19th and 20th.

In this week’s episode, I talk to the journalist and nonfiction writer, Craig Pittman.

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• On November 8th, come hear me, Gelndaliz Camacho, Rachel Kolman, and Whitney Hamrick read at There Will Be Words at The Gallery at Avalon Island.
• Watch The Drunken Odyssey's latest video: Craig Pittman, Tod Caviness, Jesse Bradley, Susan Fallows, and David Thomas Moran read in the Loose Lips reading series.
• Miami Book Fair International's amazing weekend street fair will take place on November 19th and 20th.