This week...
- Cultural critic Carl Wilson sits down with novelist Jonathan Lethem to unpack his new novel Dissident Gardens.
- Author Jhumpa Lahiri looks back at India’s violent Naxalite uprisings with her new book, The Lowland.
- We hear a gorgeous new track from electronic producer Milosh.
- And writer, academic, and former Liberal Party of Canada Leader Michael Ignatieff reads a passage from his memoir, Fire and Ashes.
Plus: Will newly christened Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro write again? We find out!
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Credits:
Hosted and produced by Anshuman Iddamsetty
Executive produced by Christopher Frey
Original theme music by Kirby Best
Podcast logo by Michael DeForge
Additional sound effects courtesy of Freesounds.org:
theMFish “Old Vinyl Record”
juskiddink “Old Typewriter”
Additional music courtesy of the Free Music Archive:
Cancelled “Caos spuddy”
Thompost “Ghostly”
The Fucked Up Beat “Monsanto Fields/ code transistors and intermodal transport facilities up chicago way to oversized flatlands building advertisements, nostalgia from these bits and pieces of ohio”
The Fucked Up Beat “Monsanto Fields II/ modern regional aesthetics next to the subdivison highway erosion floods we just wanted to see the sights this might replace the trauma it might not”
Johnny_Ripper “As A Child”
Ben von Wildenhaus “Week Seven”
Indian Wells “Golden"
Gallery Six “Hydroscope”
Sunhiilow “Au Claire Du Lune”
Yoko Komatsu “01 2”
Johnny_Ripper “Sunrise (A Song For Two Humans)”
Monster Rally “Snoozer”