The Juggernaut

"Then We Came To The End" is one of the greatest and funniest novels about having your soul crushed at work that's ever been written. Joshua Ferris came by his knowledge of office life legitimately: though he always wanted to be a fiction writer, he spent time in an ad agency, understanding how tough it is to give away your creativity to a big company. Now it's ten years later, and Josh has written two more novels and a short story collection called "The Dinner Party." Thank heavens he got out.

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Carl Newman is the beating heart of the New Pornographers, and the New Pornographers are amazing. They've been around since 2000's "Mass Romantic," and seven great records later, they're still going strong. We talk with Carl about how the music industry has changed, the role of the artist in discouraging political times, and how musical boredom has redefined his personal musical outlook.

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Music Used:

"That's No Way to Say Goodbye" by Leonard Cohen

The New Pornographers Songs:

"War on the East Coast" - Brill Bruisers

"The Laws Have Changed" - Electric Version

"Valkyrie In The Roller Disco" - Together

"Whiteout Conditions" - Whiteout Conditions

"Play Money" - Whiteout Conditions

You know Matt Ross as eccentric billionaire Gavin Belson from "Silicon Valley" and Alby Grant from "Big Love" and many other roles. Now Matt is an acclaimed writer/director, having helmed 2016's excellent "Captain Fantastic," for which lead actor Viggo Mortensen was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. Matt tells us about his non-traditional childhood, his Juilliard training, and how to find truth in a world with so much bullshit.

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J.D. Dillard was a Star Wars kid way after the original movies came out, partly because his dad was a Navy pilot and partly because Star Wars was too cool to resist. Now he's directed a sci-fi/superhero mashup movie called "Sleight," and he tells us what it's like to grow up as a black nerd, what it's like to call J.J. Abrams friend and mentor, and what it's like to come out of Sundance a red-hot property.

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Check out more about JD - IMDb

SLEIGHT is in theaters Thursday, April 28th

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THREE OF A KIND

1. "The Prestige" by Christopher Nolan

2. "David Blaine: Street Magic"

3. "13 Steps To Mentalism" by Tony Corinda

Charles Bock is a great crafter of sentences and his two novels, "Beautiful Children" and "Alice & Oliver," use his control of language to evoke the kind of compassion and empathy we need more of in our lives. This interview is about dealing with illness and loss, growing up in Las Vegas, finding strength in emotionally difficult art and what it's like to be an NFL beat reporter. You'll love it.

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Check out Charles' amazing website - charlesbock.net

Buy his new book - "Alice and Oliver"

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THREE OF A KIND

1. Film: "Casino" by Martin Scorcese

2. Book: "Battleborn" by Claire Watkins

3. TV: "The Runnin' Rebels of UNLV" by HBO Documentaries

Victor LaValle is yet another writer who went to Cornell, continuing the "Cornell Mafia" theme of our show. Victor also happens to be a fascinating guy with a great personal story, and his fiction skirts the line between "literature" and "genre" in a way that makes him both popular and profound. We can't recommend his work more highly!

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Adam Reed is kind of a genius. Just don't tell him that. We talk with the creator and primary writer of "Archer" about his television-saturated childhood, his shiftless young adulthood, his accidental stardom, and why assholes make great TV characters. "Archer: Dreamland" begins April 5th on FXX.

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Check out Adam's work - Here

Watch Archer - Here

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Three Of A Kind:

Three Comedy Assholes: Archie Bunker, All In The Family

Malcolm Tucker, The Thick Of It

Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith Show

Noah Hawley makes "Fargo" for FX, which a lot of people know about. Fewer people know that Hawley also is the man behind the wild, experimental, quasi-superhero show "Legion," which is about to wrap up its first season. Alex McLevy from the AV Club joins today to make the case that "Legion" is one of the best things going on TV right now: the perfect superhero series for people who are damn sick of superheroes.

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THREE OF A KIND

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

X-2: X-Men United

Logan

Steve Conrad has been in the screenplay business for as long as he's been an adult, but with "Patriot" he finally got to see a project all the way from conception to execution, and the results are wild and incredible. Season 1 is full of belly laughs -- it features a folk-singing spy who kills people for a living -- but it's also a deeply weird and satisfying journey into the heart of American masculinity.

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Check out "Patriot" here!

Learn more about Steve Conrad - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175726/

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THREE OF A KIND

"The 39 Steps" - Alfred Hitchcock

"The Bourne Identity - Paul Greengrass

"The Life Of Others" - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Porochista Khakpour is an artist, a journalist, an Iranian-American and an academic, and that makes her story as relevant and resonant today as it's ever been. She talks about leaving Tehran at age three, her extreme Type-A childhood reaction to the immigrant experience, and what it's like to try and break down misperceptions about being "The Other" in today's America.

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Follow Porochista - @PKhakpour

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THREE OF A KIND

Mohsin Hamid: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"

Helen Oyeyemi: "Boy, Snow, Bird"

Yiyun Li: "The Vagrants"