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Colin Dickey is a writer, speaker, and academic, and has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He's a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham's Quarterly, and is the co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death, a collective of artists, writers, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world's relationship with mortality. His latest book is called Unidentified.

Recommended Reading:

The Sobbing School by Joshua Bennett

Swallow the Fish and Experiments in Joy by Gabrielle Civil

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Morgan Jerkins is the NYT bestselling author of This WIll Be My Undoing. She is a senior editor at Medium’s ZORA magazine. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, Vogue, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Elle, Rolling Stone, Lenny Letter, and BuzzFeed, among many other outlets. She lives in New York. Her latest book is called Wandering In Strange Lands.

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Karolina Waclawiak is the author of the novels How to Get into the Twin Palms and The Invaders. Formerly an editor at The Believer, she is the executive editor of culture at BuzzFeed News. Her latest novel is called Life Changes.

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Natasha Trethewey is a former US poet laureate and the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. She is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. In 2007 she won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard. Her latest book is called Memorial Drive.

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Tara Isabella Burton is a contributing editor at the American Interest, a columnist at Religion News Service, and the former staff religion reporter at Vox.com. She has written on religion and secularism for National Geographic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and more, and holds a doctorate in theology from Oxford. She is also the author of the novel Social Creature. Her latest book is called Strange Rites.

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Lacy Crawford is the author of the novel Early Decision. She lives in Southern California with her family. Her memoir is called Notes On a Silencing. 

Recommended Reading:

The Wanderers by Meg Howrey

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift

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Raven Leilani’s work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Narrative, Yale Review, Conjunctions, and The Cut, among other publications. Luster is her first novel.

Recommended Reading:

How Much Of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card

Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker

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Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman are the hosts of Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long-distance besties. They wrote their new book, Big Friendship, together.

Recommended Reading:

Luster by Raven Leilani  

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

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This episode is brought to you by Counterpoint Press, publishers of The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun. A fast-paced eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist introduces a fresh new voice that engages with the global dialogue around climate activism, dark tourism, and the #MeToo movement.

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Lynn Steger Strong's first novel, Hold Still, was released by Liveright/WW Norton in 2016. Her nonfiction has been published by Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books, Elle.com, Catapult, Lit Hub, and others. She teaches both fiction and non-fiction writing at Columbia University, Fairfield University, and the Pratt Institute.

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Adrian Tomine is the author of Scenes from an Impending Marriage, Shortcomings, Summer Blonde, Sleepwalk, 32 Stories, and the comic book series Optic Nerve. He is also an illustrator for The New Yorker, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. He lives in Brooklyn.  The Loneliness of the Long Distance-Cartoonist is his latest.

Recommended Reading:

365 Days by Julie Doucet

The works of Richard Sala

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