Podcasts about Ling Ma

Will comes roaring back from his winter break with ten graphic novels in the bag, but he's much more interested in Steve finally starting Immortal Hulk. Will comics: Venomverse Reborn, Edge of Spider-Verse: Spider Society, The Spectacular Spider-Men vol 1: Arachnobatics, Captain Marvel by Alyssa Wong vol 2: The Undone, Scarlet Witch vol 3: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver, She-Hulk by Rainbow Rowell vol 5: All In, Superior Spider-Man vol 2: Superior Spider-Island, Night Thrasher: Remix, Werewolf by Night: Unholy Alliance, Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII. Steve reading: Severance by Ling Ma, most of The Last Policeman by Ben Winters, The Immortal Hulk vol 1: Or Is He Both?

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It's episode 208 and time for us to talk about our Reading Resolutions for 2025! We discuss our love of spreadsheets, the churn of books in public libraries, literacy, unschooling, and more!  You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Some people read books to escape. Others turn to them for instruction. As the new year looms, our correspondents – and listeners – consider which titles can help forecast what's coming next. Picks include “Rainbows End” by Vernor Vinge, “Nuclear War” by Annie Jacobsen, “Not the End of the World” by Hannah Richie and “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey. This is a full list of the books mentioned in the show:“Rainbow's End, A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire upon the Deep” by Vernor Vinge“Ageless” by Andrew Steele“War” by Bob Woodward“Nuclear War: A Scenario” by Annie Jackobson“1984” by George Orwell“On Freedom and On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder“A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers“Qualityland” from Marc-Uwe Kling“Ministry of the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson“Severance” by Ling Ma“Land of Milk and Money” by C Pam Zhang“The Broken Earth Trilogy” by NK Jemisin“Not the End of the World" by Hannah Ritchie“Orbital” by Samantha Harvey“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers“Ancillary Justice” (The Imperial Rasch Series) by Ann Leckie“The Battle of Dorking” by Sir George Chesney“War of the Worlds" by HG WellsListen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science and technology—Subscribe to Economist Podcasts+For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some people read books to escape. Others turn to them for instruction. As the new year looms, our correspondents – and listeners – consider which titles can help forecast what's coming next. Picks include “Rainbows End” by Vernor Vinge, “Nuclear War” by Annie Jacobsen, “Not the End of the World” by Hannah Richie and “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey. This is a full list of the books mentioned in the show:“Rainbow's End, A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire upon the Deep” by Vernor Vinge“Ageless” by Andrew Steele“War” by Bob Woodward“Nuclear War: A Scenario” by Annie Jackobson“1984” by George Orwell“On Freedom and On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder“A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers“Qualityland” from Marc-Uwe Kling“Ministry of the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson“Severance” by Ling Ma“Land of Milk and Money” by C Pam Zhang“The Broken Earth Trilogy” by NK Jemisin“Not the End of the World" by Hannah Ritchie“Orbital” by Samantha Harvey“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers“Ancillary Justice” (The Imperial Rasch Series) by Ann Leckie“The Battle of Dorking” by Sir George Chesney“War of the Worlds" by HG WellsListen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science and technology—Subscribe to Economist Podcasts+For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account. 

Jeff and Rebecca digest the finalists for the 2024 National Book Award in fiction, envy and admire MacArthur winners, get pumped for The Corrections on TV, and think about Reese's thriller. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Discussed in this episode: This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. mytbr.co National Book Award finalists announced Federal judge orders Arkansas public library to reshelve “inappropriate” books Jason Reynolds, Ling Ma, Alice Wong among 2024 MacArthur grant winners Meryl Streep attached to star in Corrections adaptation Reese Witherspoon to co-write debut novel with Harlan Coben The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich Entitlement by Rumaan Alam Chop Fry Watch Learn by Michelle King Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

À l'aube du 100e épisode, vos caféinomanes favorites ont décidé de prendre ça relax et de faire un épisode pour apprendre à mieux les connaître et pour rectifier des erreurs qu'elles ont fait en ondes. Que voulez-vous, si elles n'en faisaient pas, ça serait pas juste pour les autres.Ensuite, elles répondent à des questions posées par leurs Discordeux.ses, et vous révèlent que Catherine est une championne du bowling, Audrey a des défauts de fabrication et les meilleures adresses pour déguster de la pizza hawaiienne à Verdun et Montréal. Faites pas c'te face-là!Ah! Et on dit ça, on dit rien, mais on va peut-être annoncer qui sera l'invité.e spécial.e qui se joindra à nous pour l'enregistrement du 100e épisode? Nudge nudge wink wink.C'est disponible dès maintenant pour mettre… BEAUCOUP d'informations inutiles dans ton café! ☕️Café recommandé en ondes : Brûlerie du Kamouraska (merci Sunny pour le cadeau!)Livres recommandés par Audrey : Severance, Ling Ma et Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka MurataLivre recommandé par Catherine : Le compte est bon, Louis-Daniel Godin Get bonus content on Patreon Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In which we go find Xenophilius Lovegood Email us at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com to tell us what you thought of Xenophilius Lovegood or even what you think of us! We'd love to read your email on the show. Be sure to subscribe to know right away about new episodes, and rate and review! SUPPORT US ON OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/therestrictedsection THANK YOU LOVE YOU BUY OUR MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/user/restricted-section-podcast THANK YOU LOVE YOU IG: https://www.instagram.com/restrictedsectionpod/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rspoddetentioncrew/   Check out our other amazing Deus Ex Media podcasts! www.deusexmedia.org   This episode featured: Christina Kann https://linktr.ee/christinakann Catch Christina on The Bits last week! https://www.deusexmedia.org/the-bits  She plugged One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware https://bookshop.org/a/97181/9781668025598 Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler https://bookshop.org/a/97181/9780804141284 Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle https://bookshop.org/a/97181/9781250874627 Severance by Ling Ma https://bookshop.org/a/97181/9781250214997  Haley Simpkiss Haley plugged Godzilla (1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120685/ Special guest Taylor Taylor plugged Super Scary & his Patreon https://www.patreon.com/SuperScary Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid https://bookshop.org/a/97181/9781524798673 The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake https://bookshop.org/a/97181/9780759554993 A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas https://bookshop.org/a/97181/9781635575606 

Ein Mann, der sich im Bett als Yeti entpuppt, eine Droge, die unsichtbar macht, eine Frau, die mit ihren hundert Ex-Liebhabern shoppen geht – die brillanten Storys der US-Amerikanerin Ling Ma schlagen ein ums andere Mal ins Fantastische um. Und verraten so viel über unsere Gegenwart. Rezension von Oliver Pfohlmann

Ein Mann, der sich im Bett als Yeti entpuppt, eine Droge, die unsichtbar macht, eine Frau, die mit ihren hundert Ex-Liebhabern shoppen geht – die brillanten Storys der US-Amerikanerin Ling Ma schlagen ein ums andere Mal ins Fantastische um. Und verraten so viel über unsere Gegenwart. Rezension von Oliver Pfohlmann

After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation's children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. In Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP, 2024), Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers' works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers' attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.” Christopher T. Fan is an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Departments of English, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies. He is a cofounder and senior editor of Hyphen magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation's children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. In Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP, 2024), Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers' works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers' attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.” Christopher T. Fan is an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Departments of English, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies. He is a cofounder and senior editor of Hyphen magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-american-studies

After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation's children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. In Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP, 2024), Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers' works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers' attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.” Christopher T. Fan is an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Departments of English, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies. He is a cofounder and senior editor of Hyphen magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation's children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. In Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP, 2024), Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers' works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers' attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.” Christopher T. Fan is an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Departments of English, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies. He is a cofounder and senior editor of Hyphen magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation's children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. In Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP, 2024), Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers' works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers' attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.” Christopher T. Fan is an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Departments of English, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies. He is a cofounder and senior editor of Hyphen magazine.

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Borchardt, Katharina www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Studio 9

Borchardt, Katharina www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Studio 9

Borchardt, Katharina www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Studio 9

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Michelle Min Sterling, writer of “Camp Zero”, her first novel published by Bragelonne in 2023, in which she imagines a futuristic world confronted with the consequences of climate change. Through this conversation with Erica Wagner, Michelle Min Sterling discusses the origins of her novel and her sources of inspiration, both historical and contemporary, and describes her relationship with the genres of dystopia and utopia in literature. Together, they also evoke the role of women in her story and the way fiction can raise awareness of environmental issues.As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi.Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero © Atria Books, 2024 © The Globe and MailCamp Zero reads like a chronicle of the present © David Moscrop, 2023 © The London Times Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling review byHouman Barekat © The London Times, 2023Omar El Akkad, American War, Knopf, 2017Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower © Hachette, 2019Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam Trilogy, Penguin Random House, 2014The Dispossessed. Copyright © 1974 by Ursula K. Le Guin. An edition of this book was published in 1974 by Harper & Row, Publishers.Severance by Ling Ma. Copyright © 2018 by Ling Ma. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.

Memory Piece by Lisa Ko is an unforgettable story of art, friendship and coming-of-age that cuts across decades from the 1980s to the 2040s. Ko joins us to talk about forming the characters of the novel, writing through a large span of time, her artistic influences and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. We end this episode with TBR Topoff recommendations from Marc and Jamie. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                    New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.      Featured Books (Episode): Memory Piece by Lisa Ko The Leavers by Lisa Ko After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn Featured Books (TBR Topoff): Set for Life by Andrew Ewell Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

Welcome to Episode 203! Some highlights of this episode: Emily dives into the pages of THE FROZEN RIVER by Ariel Lawhon and the delicious world of baking with THE COOKIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE cookbook by Nancy Silverton and Carolynn Carreno. Meanwhile, Chris is back in high school with Jenna Miller's new sapphic YA romance, WE GOT THE BEAT. Emily devoured Elle Cosimano's new release, FINLAY DONOVAN ROLLS THE DICE, and was deeply moved by Suleika Jaouad's memoir BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS. She also read three short stories: "Itinerary" by Lucia Berlin in EVENING IN PARADISE and "Los Angeles" and "Office Hours" by Ling Ma in BLISS MONTAGE: Stories. Chris highly recommends the new and first biography of a once hugely popular woman writer, THE VANISHING OF CAROLYN WELLS by Rebecca Rego Barry. She also revisited ETHAN FROME before reading SUMMER by Edith Wharton. We also discuss INDIGO by Beverly Jenkins, our first-quarter readalong pick. A question for those of you who read it: do you think Hester's name could be a nod to Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter? In Biblio Adventures, Chris explored The Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Over On Ingredient One, Emily sat down with Louise Miller, author of THE CITY BAKER'S GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING AND THE LATE BLOOMER'S CLUB.

Sapphire, Michelle and Joseph chat about what they've been reading, watching, and listening to this week including Sean Michaels' sensitive existential comedy Do You Remember Being Born?, Clementine Ford's inspiring feminist manifesto Fight Like A Girl, Nathan Hill's portrait of marital dysfunction Wellness, and Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age. This week's deep dive book is the best-selling bookclub favourite Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. This week's listener recommendation request comes from Leigh who enjoyed Bliss Montage by Ling Ma and is looking for other quirky and interesting short story collections. Sapphire recommends Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovich, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez, Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson, Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele, Old Babes In The Wood by Margaret Atwood, Send Nudes by Saba Sams, and 19 Claws and a Black Bird by Augustina Bazterrica. Michelle recommends Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle. Joseph recommends Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin. Also mentioned in this episode:The Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiSeverance by Ling MaLittle Eyes by Samanta SchweblinFever Dream by Samanta Schweblin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a big ep. We debrief, reflect, recommend and share some rather big news about the pod in 2024. We discuss: Things that have happened in writing and pod life for us since episode one of this season Fishing as a key theme of Katherine's year (and yes, the free fishing rods for Grade 4s is an actual thing) A delightful school visit for Katherine and why she's excited for 2024 and the publication of her first MG novel - Shellsville Kate reflects on a big year and the tour (and wrote about it here for The Bowerbird) Podcast highlight when Karen Comer organised a copy of Susie Anderson's the body country to Darcy Moore from Collingwood FC Kate's excited to share the news she's has her first PICTURE BOOK coming out in 2024! Stay tuned to her socials for details in the new year. Some stats from Season 6 Total episodes: 47 Featured Book: 23 eps Follow a First Timer: 8 eps with Megan Rogers  Masters: 11 eps - Cate Kennedy, Kevin Wilson, Amie Kaufman, RA spratt, Ling Ma, Brian Moylan, Alison Bell, Jessie Stephens, Tim Winton, Lucy Treloar, Richard Flanagan Hummingbird deep dives: 2 Awkward convos: 2 - on money and endorsements - we ran out of steam on these - too many other things to talk about but they are both in the most listened top 10! Festival convos: 2 - Write around the Murray and Willy Lit Fest The Debut Crew 2023 reels on instagram  Since 28th November 2022, there have been 105k listens, an increase of 27% from the preceding twelve months and 322k all time listens And finally - our big news. It's a two parter:  Firstly, we're taking a break from The First Time pod in this format in 2024. We love you and thank you SO MUCH for listening.  But! Don't delete The First Time feed just yet. Stay tuned for our summer series (from January) and Katherine will be kicking off something a little bit different in March 2024.   And that's it from us, for awhile at least!  Thank you so much for your listening, sharing and support over the last six seasons x Continue to keep in touch with Katherine on instagram or via her newsletter and Kate on instagram and her newsletter. Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). You can support us and the making of Season Six via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us!

Author Mitchell S. Jackson returns for our book club discussion of Ling Ma's post-apocalyptic novel Severance. On this episode we try to piece together the story's timeline, unpack the ending, and we cast the TV show adaptation. We also discuss quote marks, capitalism, and the role of religion throughout the novel.There are spoilers on this episode.Be sure to listen to the end of today's episode to find out what our December book club pick will be.You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website:https://thestackspodcast.com/2023/11/29/ep-295-severanceEpisode TranscriptConnect with Mitchell: Instagram | Twitter | WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonTo support The Stacks and find out more from this week's sponsors, click here.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tony Award Winner Ali Stroker discusses her new middle grade novel Cut Loose!, co-written with Stacy Davidowitz. Ali reveals why she avoided having friends with disabilities in her youth, how she translates choreography for her wheelchair, and how her thinking around accommodations has changed over time. We also hear how she thinks about storytelling versus teaching her audience.The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Severance by Ling Ma. We will discuss the book on November 29th with Mitchell S. Jackson.You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website:https://thestackspodcast.com/2023/11/22/ep-294-ali-strokerEpisode TranscriptConnect with Ali: Instagram | Twitter | WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonTo support The Stacks and find out more from this week's sponsors, click here.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Texas politician and author Beto O'Rourke joins The Stacks to talk about his book We've Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible. We learn why Beto thinks voting rights is the most important battle we're currently fighting, what he says to people who don't feel represented or served by politicians, and whether he plans to run for office again. The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Severance by Ling Ma. We will discuss the book on November 29th with Mitchell S. Jackson.You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website:https://thestackspodcast.com/2023/11/15/ep-293-beto-orourkeEpisode TranscriptConnect with Beto: Instagram | Twitter | WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonTo support The Stacks and find out more from this week's sponsors, click here.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward joins The Stacks to discuss her latest novel Let Us Descend. She reveals how the book came to her, and how audience plays into her writing process. We also learn why Jesmyn changed her normal writing process for this book, how she writes to the center of emotions in her fiction, and how her level of success impacts her ability to write.The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Severance by Ling Ma. We will discuss the book on November 29th with Mitchell S. Jackson.You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website:https://thestackspodcast.com/2023/11/08/ep-292-jesmyn-wardEpisode TranscriptConnect with Jesmyn: Instagram | TwitterConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonTo support The Stacks and find out more from this week's sponsors, click here.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson joins the show to discuss his new book Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion. He explains why he wanted to write about the intersection of basketball and fashion in this hybrid of lookbook and cultural commentary. We also get into basketball's best and worst dressed, what winning the Pulitzer has meant to Mitchell and why he never reads for pleasure.The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Severance by Ling Ma. We will discuss the book on November 29th with Mitchell S. Jackson.You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website:https://thestackspodcast.com/2023/11/01/ep-291-mitchell-jacksonEpisode TranscriptConnect with Mitchell: Instagram | Twitter | WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonTo support The Stacks and find out more from this week's sponsors, click here.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we're unlocking one of our bonus episodes, usually available only to Patreon subscribers. This is the inauguaral episode in our Summer of Shorts season, in which we're discussing both short stories and short pants. In this episode we take on a Ling Ma short story and also a pair of "conspiracy shorts" that are supposed to protect you from electromagnetic fields. If you like the episode, and want to hear the rest of the Summer of Shorts season, you can subscribe to our Patreon for just five bucks: https://www.patreon.com/BookFight You can also read the Ling Ma story we talked about here, via the New Yorker site (if you have free articles left this month, or are a subscriber): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/11/peking-duck  

Novelist Ling Ma doesn't shy away from taking risks with her writing. Her 2018 debut novel, “Severance,” is an apocalyptic satire that won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and squarely put her on the map as an exciting, off-beat new writer.  With her newest collection, “Bliss Montage,” Ma has turned her attention to the short story format. The collection is described as “eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home.” In this episode, Ling Ma breaks down her creative process and inspiration behind “Peking Duck,” a short story from the collection. She details how she attempted to complicate and “implode” the immigrant narrative through her unique approach to this mother-daughter story. After listening to the episode, you can read “Peking Duck” here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/11/peking-duck

Ling Ma joins Windham-Campbell Prizes director Michael Kelleher to talk about tuning into the same frequency as Rachel Ingalls, crying on airplanes, and what it means to write about human-cryptid romance. READING LIST: Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls Times Like These by Rachel Ingalls The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Grumpy Old Men (1993) For a full episode transcript, click here. Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. She wrote the novel Severance and the story collection Bliss Montage, both published by FSG. Her work has received the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, an NEA fellowship, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Both titles have been named to the NY Times Notable Books of the Year and her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, and more. She has taught creative writing and English at Cornell University and the University of Chicago, where she currently serves as an assistant professor of practice. She lives in Chicago with her family. The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

3月了，主播们的生活依然忙忙碌碌，忙里偷闲着也读了一些书，和大家分享一下。一则好消息是，在播客上聊到过的Ling Ma的短篇小说集Bliss Montage，要被引进出版成简体中文版，译者是周嘉宁

About Colin Winnette: COLIN WINNETTE's books include Coyote, Haints Stay, and The Job of the Wasp, which was an American Booksellers Association's Indie Next Pick. Winnette's writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy, McSweeney's, The Believer, and The Paris Review Daily. A former bookseller in Texas, Vermont, New York, and California, he is now a writer living in San Francisco. About Users: Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is for readers of Ling Ma, Dave Eggers's The Circle, and viewers of the hit Apple TV+ original series Severance Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its “original experiences,” has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the “game” is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company's strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes the target of user outrage, and starts receiving a series of anonymous death threats. Typed notes sealed in envelopes with no postage or return address, these persistent threats push Miles into a paranoid panic, blurring his own sense of reality, catalyzing the collapse of his career, his marriage, and his relationship with his children. The once-promising road to success becomes a narrow set of choices for Miles, who, in a last ditch effort to save his job, pitches his masterpiece, a revolutionary device code-named the Egg, which will transform the company. The consequences for Miles seal him inside the walls of his life as what was once anxiety explodes into devastating absoluteness. In a world rife with the unchecked power and ambition of tech, Users investigates—with both humor and creeping dread—how interpersonal experiences and private decisions influence the hasty developments that have the power to permanently alter the landscape of human experience.

Today, Ling Ma talks to us about her story collection, Bliss Montage, as well as starting from scratch, editing in a postpartum haze, fragrances, and more!  Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. She wrote the novel Severance and, more recently, the story collection Bliss Montage, both published by FSG. She lives in Chicago with her family.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is all about weird, memorable, important books. I've got Severance by Ling Ma, I explain how books make it to the Engaging Fiction Table at Barnes and Noble, and ask the question: is 1984 actually a good work of fiction? I play some bossa nova guitar music in this one.

We talk about Severance by Ling Ma.  We have thoughts about the formatting of this postapocalyptic distopia novel.  We have some flashbacks to our own pandemic experience.  We discuss the symbolism of office drudgery and struggle to connect with the characters.

On this special holiday episode, Megan presents her favorite interviews of 2022: with Kirkus Prize winner Ling Ma, author of Bliss Montage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and Anton Hur, translator of Violets by Kyung-sook Shin (Feminist Press).

Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Seeing Ershadi,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in The New Yorker in 2018. Ma is the author of the novel “Severance” and the story collection “Bliss Montage,” which came out in September.

Hey, hey, hey everyone!!! We are so grateful you're here with us! We had a great time recording our nice basic episode! This one is exactly 45 minutes so it's perfect for that car ride to or from work! Just to go ahead and let you guys know, there was some funkiness with the audio during this recording! It's not too noticeable (we hope), but you may hear a slight buzz/ vibrating noise while we are talking. It should not hinder your enjoyment of this fun little episode but if it does, we apologize! ALSO, Brookie has continued to make this mistake! She, for some reason, thought that I'm Thinking Of Ending Things by Iain Reid was adapted into a TV show BUT it is NOT a TV Show adaptation!!! Oopsies!! It's definitely a film adaptation done by Netflix! It is marked as a horror/thriller movie. We should have some fun merchandise available soon! Be on the lookout for sure! With all of that being said, please enjoy and let us know what you thought of our episode! 6:04 - Cycle Of The Werewolf by Stephen King, Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson8:28 - Severance by Ling Ma 10:35 - The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton12:45 - Run, Rose, run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson 13:29 - The Method by James Patterson (Audible Original)17:24 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 19:54 - Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn20:47 - Goosebumps by R. L Stine21:25 - Coraline by Neil Gaiman 22:08 - Foe: A Novel by Iain Reid24:04 - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager24:33 - I'm Thinking Of Ending Things by Iain Reid (Also mentioned FILM Netflix adaptation)27:18 - The House Of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 32:04 - The End Of October by Lawrence Wright 34:20 - The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James34:56 - Goblin: A Novel In Six Novellas by Josh Malerman36:51 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald37:37 - Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling 39:18 - About Time (2013) Movie (Novelization published in 2014, based on the movie)Search Discovery Plus for the TV show that Austin was on! It's called Getaway Driver and features the host, Michelle Rodriguez!     Be sure to keep yourself Happily Booked! Instagram/ TikTok - happilybookedpodcastFacebook - Happily Booked PodcastLikewise - BrookeBatesHappilyBookedGoodreads - Brooke Lynn Bates Storygraph - brookebatesratesbooks THE Sideways Sheriff - Permanent Sponsor Insta/ TikTok - Sideways_sheriffFacebook - Sideways SheriffYoutube - Sideways Sheriff

Magician Penn Jillette talks about his novel, “Random." It's about a young man who uses his lucky dice to make his life decisions. Also, novelist Ling Ma on her debut collection of short stories, “Bliss Montage." And music journalist Jim Ruland tells us how the indie label SST Records paved the way for punk rock.

In 2018, the writer Ling Ma published Severance, which promptly won several literary prizes but only hit the big time in 2020. The novel follows Candace Chen, who continues to go to her unfulfilling job in the middle of a worldwide pandemic that slowly fills the world with slack-jawed zombies. You can guess why it was popular. This fall, Ma is back with a new collection of stories, Bliss Montage, which imagines a number of other surreal scenarios, such as a drug that makes you invisible, a dream job that just might open a literal door into a dream world, and a manual on Yeti lovemaking. One of Ma's characters lives in an L.A. mansion with her 100 ex-boyfriends; another visits her husband's homeland, where people bury themselves alive in an annual festival in hopes of curing their physical or psychic ills. Bliss Montage's eight stories are, above all, about the fictions we tell ourselves to survive the delusions of modern life.Go beyond the episode:Ling Ma's Bliss MontageRead “Peking Duck” in The New Yorker and more about Ma's time at PlayboyIf you missed the pandemic boat: read Severance (if you're an audiobook fan, Nancy Wu's droll audiobook narration is perfect) and check out the Post45 discussion circle about the novelJeanine Basinger's original formulation of the “bliss montage” in films, from her book A Woman's ViewTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. She is the author of the novel Severance, which received the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. She lives in Chicago with her family. Her story collection is called Bliss Montage. Recommended Reading: Skinship by Yoon Choi • Out There by Kate Folk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma Hislop reviews Bliss Montage by Ling Ma, published by Text Publishing

In Episode 123, Nikki Erlick joins me to discuss (spoiler-free!) her debut novel, The Measure, and share her book recommendations. A both otherworldly and of our time story, in a symbolic way rather than a literal way. The Measure will absolutely be one of my favorite books of 2022! This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights Nikki's inspiration for The Measure. How she incorporated Ancient Greek mythology about fate in her writing. The ways COVID-19 pandemic influenced and impacted her novel. How she decided to take her story to a place of healing, peace, and hope. Nikki's path to publication as a debut author. The comparable books and authors Nikki names for read-alikes. Nikki's process for weaving together the wide variety of societal implications into her story. Whether Nikki thinks she'd open the box featured in The Measure…and how she'd live her life if she were a short stringer. Nikki's Book Recommendations [29:18] Two OLD Books She Loves Anxious People by Fredrik Backman | Amazon | Bookshop.org [29:35] Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang | Amazon | Bookshop.org [30:40] Two NEW Books She Loves The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd | Amazon | Bookshop.org [33:06] End of the World House by Adrienne Celt | Amazon | Bookshop.org [34:30] One Genre of Books She DOESN'T LOVE  [36:33] One NEW RELEASE She's Excited About Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson (September 27) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [39:12] Last 5-Star Book Nikki Read The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles | Amazon | Bookshop.org [41:51] Other Books Mentioned The Power by Naomi Alderman [14:48] The One by John Marrs [15:00] Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson [15:12] Beartown by Fredrik Backman [30:20] Exhalation by Ted Chiang [30:59] The Book of M by Peng Shepherd [34:11] Severance by Ling Ma [35:37] Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister [36:00] The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas [37:10] Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier [37:26] I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara [37:51] The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King [38:23] The Shining by Stephen King [38:43] Life After Life by Kate Atkinson [39:28] Rules of Civility by Amor Towles [42:15] About Nikki Erlick Website | Twitter | Instagram Nikki Erlick is a writer and editor whose work has appeared on the websites of New York magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, the Huffington Post, Indagare Travel, BookTrib, and the Verge. As a travel writer, she explored nearly a dozen countries on assignment—from rural villages in France to the arctic fjords of Norway. As a ghostwriter, she has lent her voice to CEOs, academics, and entrepreneurs. She graduated Harvard University summa cum laude and is a former editor of the Harvard Crimson. She earned a master's degree in global thought from Columbia University. The Measure is her first novel.

The NPR legal affairs correspondent met the future SCOTUS justice in the early '70s, when Totenberg interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a story about a decision pertaining to women's rights. Her memoir about her life and friendship is Dinners with Ruth.Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews Ling Ma's new collection of stories, Bliss Montage.

Kirkus Prize-winning novelist Ling Ma joins us to discuss her new story collection Bliss Montage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sept. 13), which Kirkus calls “haunting and artful” (starred review). Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week.

“I start with the emotion. I don't know what the story is. I don't know who the characters are necessarily. I'm working on very little like, I'm thinking, ‘oh, well, the way this light looks through a window', or something — very few details here and there. But I don't know what happens in this story.” Join three amazing authors talking about their three fabulous fall reads: If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery, The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li and Bliss Montage by Ling Ma. The authors speak with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer, about the balance between humor and dread, how they start a project, some of their favorite writers & more.   Featured Books (Episode) If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li Bliss Montage by Ling Ma Severance by Ling Ma How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Moshin Hamid Passing by Nella Larsen Quicksand by Nella Larsen The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty Moby Dick by Herman Mellville Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara   Featured Books (TBR Topoff): A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin Artist in the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro  St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell   Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.   A full transcript of this episode is available here.

In this episode, we share our smooch, marry, and kills of September. We discuss what you should give a shot (smooch), what you should make a commitment to (marry), and what you should just pass on by (kill) this fall. Join us as we consider the new books, shows, and movies heading our way this month. Plus a surprise appearance of Erin of Grievances and Knox's random red lights. MENTIONSCTA: High-five yourself because you showed up and celebrated our ninth birthday with us all month with us!Lyrics: Wake Me Up When September EndsOUA: Listen to Knox talk about losing money during football seasonWhat happened 9 months ago?: Why September is the most popular month for birthdays Refresher: What is Smooch, Marry, Kill? | Instagram: #PopcastSMKFall fashion: Lug sole loafers, clogs, corset tops, oversized button down, maxi skirts, trucker hats (under 40 only), Birks Smooch mentions: LOTR Rings of Power (“Hesi-Hey”) | The 12 most expensive tv shows ever made | The Woman King | Blonde | Don't Worry Darling | Harry Styles' accent in DWD | Hocus Pocus 2 (original, Girls Just Want To Have Fun) | Most Americans Stop Listening To New Music at Age 33 | Britney Spears / Elton John's Hold Me Closer | Santigold's Spirituals | Marcus Munford's Self-Titled | Little Big Town's Mr. Sun | The Front Bottoms' Theresa | American Gigolo NSFL: Body Like A Backhoe | SFW: Body Like a BackroadMarry mentions: Reboot | S2 Abbot Elementary | books: Fairy Tale by Stephen King, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Avid, Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Adkinson, The Unfolding by A.M. Holmes, Bliss Montage by Ling Ma, Eliot Ness and The Mad Butcher by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz | S4 Atlanta | Andor (see also: Rouge One)Kill mentions: Pinocchio | Joseph Gordon-Levitt IMDb | The Greatest Beer Run Ever | ErinHMoon on IG fall pledgeJoin us Thursday on Patreon for this week's TMYK for Oliva Wilde and Shia Labeouf discussionRed light mentions: VMAs | Yung Gravy | hologram Johnny Depp at the VMAs | Oliva Wilde | House of The Dragon theme song | PeeWee Herman birthday | DJ Khaled's new album (exception) | Nebraska | mass surrender cobra | Ugh- this Texas pastor THE BACHELORETTE EPISODE RECAPSWe recap each episode of The Bachelorette for our Friends of the Show at Patreon. Support at either Friend level gets you our weekly recaps dropped into your podcast app every Tuesday. Go to knoxandjamie.com/patreon to support the show. And thank you! BONUS SEGMENTOur Patreon supporters can get full access to this week's The More You Know news segment. Become a partner. This week we discussed:Olivia Wilde (and Shia LaBeouf) The Brad Pitt / Angelina Jolie reportGREEN LIGHTSJamie: series - Mo (Netflix) | book - Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins ReidKnox: Ashley's shop - The Bluest Willow | The Measure by Nikki Erlick SHOW SPONSORSRothy's: Get $20 off your first purchase at Rothys.com/pop.Stamps.com: Get a 4-week trial at Stamps.com with code POPCAST.ZipRecruiter: Try it for free at ZipRecruiter.com/popcastHoney: install Honey so you never miss a promo code again at JoinHoney.com/popcastSubscribe to Episodes: iTunes | Android Subscribe to our Monthly Newsletter: knoxandjamie.com/newsletterShop our Amazon Link: amazon.com/shop/thepopcast | this week's featured itemFollow Us: Instagram | Twitter | FacebookSupport Us: Monthly Donation | One-Time Donation | SwagSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Whenever someone new to my podcast asks me where they should start, I recommend this episode. It's one of my all-time favorite conversations with one of my all-time favorite people. Since I'm on vacation this week, I thought it was time to reach back into the archive and replay this episode, in the hopes that you will pick up this lovely book. The only reason I agreed to read another pandemic book was because I totally trust my friend Lisa Marie Cabrelli, who is a writer, academic, and adventurer. She told me I would love it, and she wasn't wrong. Holy moly. There was so much to talk about. BTW – you cannot talk about this book without talking about the end. Lisa-Marie and I had totally different interpretations. But I also don't want to spoil the end for you. So I moved that part of the conversation to the very end, and added a warning so you know when to hit the pause button if you don't want to hear that part.   Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram/Facebook   Guest: Lisa Marie Cabrelli Website/Instagram/Twitter   Want to be a guest on the Best Book Ever Podcast? Go here!   Discussed in this episode: Severance by Ling Ma The Stand by Stephen King Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Witch Elm by Tana French (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links. If you shop using my affiliate link on Bookshop, a portion of your purchase will go to me, at no extra expense to you. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores and for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)