Let’s Read a Paperback

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar — Chapters 7-14


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Our new episode in questions: Do you say tighty whites or whitey tighties? What do you call that knife on a stick used for chopping wood? Does Zee fall in love with Cyrus because he’s taking care of him or because it’s objectively hilarious how Cyrus took Jude’s windchime? How many times can we say fentanyl in one episode?  Do you ever write down details of other people’s stories to use in your own writing one day? Is gratitude “classist, or worse”? Should Kathryn try dating a republican “as a social experiment” like Cyrus did? Is Arash a huge dick or actually a compassionate brother? Can everyone just start listening to Hannah about what’s cool NOW rather than waiting for the zeitgeist to catch up in 5 years?????

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Let’s Read a PaperbackBy Kathryn Condon & Hannah Harsin Drager