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This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Dee Holloway (@_deeholloway) to the show! Dee reads from her trunked YA novel, River’s End, which leads us into a great discussion of writing about place, what we did during the height of the pandemic, and Dee’s forthcoming novella, Little Nothing.

Things we mentioned this episode:

Stuart Dybek

The Complete History of New Mexico, by Kevin McIlvoy

Sabrina & Corina, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Lady Bird

Joan Didion

California State Railroad Museum

Sacramento History Museum

QueryTracker

Little Nothing, by Dee Holloway

“The Highwayman,” by Alfred Noyes

Devil’s Cup, by Dee Holloway

The Craft

Blue Crush

Equus, edited by Rhonda Parrish

Luna Station Quarterly

“MONTERO (Call My By Your Name),” by Lil Nas X

Tim Curry

John Milton

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

The Iliad, by Homer

The Aeneid, by Virgil

Pitchfork

John Grisham

Bigolas Dickolas

This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Kotaku and Polygon writeups

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Lamplit Underground

Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel

The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, by Claire Dederer

Burn You the Fuck Alive, by B.R. Yeager

Dee’s insta and itch