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Julia sat this one out, so Steven and Matthew recorded a dark, Eastern Tennessee special.
We get into our biggest argument ever discussing Catherine Lacey's The Biography of X. Does the alternative history aspect of it work? To what end? Why does Steven keep calling it "speculative history?" None of these questions will be answered.
We discuss Hiroko Oyamada's 3 novels translated into English: The Factory, The Hole, and Weasels in the Attic. We also recount what happened in our lost draft episode.
We read Ali Smith's novel Hotel World, and now we're talking about it. If its a hotel WORLD, why do we only see a portion of it? Featuring out first segment: Look at This Guy.
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Julia, Matthew, and Steven draft a team of the best contemporary novels around.