Today's guest is Tom Lutz, editor in chief of the l. A Review of Books, a non profit dedicated to promoting writing about literature, culture and the arts. Tom teaches creative writing at the University of California. Tom has dovetailed his wanderlust and passion for writing into seven nonfiction books, some on travel one on the history of slackers, another on the history of tears. His first crime novel, Born Slippy, was published in January. Tom joined me today to talk about some of the monumental changes he's seen in publishing during this decade as well as how global trade and politics affects every day artists.
Reuben "Tihi" Hayslett: Short Stories - Get In & Get Out
Today's guest is Rueben Tihi Hayslett who confronts identity politics, racism, and homophobia in his debut short story collection, Dark Corners, which has been selected by Kirkus reviews as best book of the year for 2019 Hayslett's characters, most of them black, brown, and/or queer have their personal problems complicated by their outsider status, by ominous politics, and by occasional eruptions of madness and the macabre. Tihi joined me today to talk about writing and art as a form of protest.
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Kylie Reid: On Representation of Language & Examining Race in Fiction
Today's guest is Kylie Reid, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote fellowship. She lives in Philadelphia. Such A Fun Age is her first novel. Kylie joined me today to talk about Such A Fun Age and how writing two dimensional characters, people who are both good and bad, is how to make them true to life.