On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, your hosts Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, briefly discuss reading slumps and the likelihood that either of them will read the new novel by Bret Easton Ellis. The books up for discussion this month are The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz [5:00] and Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras [45:00].

If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:13:00 for final remarks.

Next month, the two books on the slab will be:

• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

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