This week’s book tackles aging and writing and the author’s determination to write a book about a gay character who is allowed to experience joy. These are all themes that hit us where we live as we trundle into early middle age ourselves.

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Ep 593 - Less, by Sean Andrew Greer

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Did you know that before Gillian Flynn brought us the book Gone Girl, the movie Gone Girl, and the concept of "Gone Girl-ing" someone, she wrote a murder mystery about a different kind of unhealthy family dynamic!

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This episode is about Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, the complete edition containing both The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return.

Ep 644 - Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

Holes! We all need 'em, we all love 'em. This is a book where a boy is sentenced to dig a bunch of holes out in the desert because he was accused and convicted of a crime he didn't commit.

Ep 593 - Less, by Sean Andrew Greer

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