"I wanted it to feel like stepping off the world..."

Blackouts by Justin Torres explores love, loss and the stories we leave behind with inventive and transformative form and prose. Torres joins us to talk about the source material for this novel, the importance of telling queer stories, navigating legacy, loneliness and identity and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books (Episode):

Blackouts by Justin Torres

We the Animals by Justin Torres

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

City of God by Gil Cuadros

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

Punks by John Keene

In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali