This is the tenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.

This week's guest is Buzz Poole, cofounder of Sandorf Passage. Texts discussed include but are not limited to:

• Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis
• Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost by Donald Niedekker, translated by Jonathan Reeder
• Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišić, translated by Will Firth
• Cat at the End of the World by Robert Perišić, translated by Vesna Maric
• No Signal Area by Robert Perišić, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać
• She Who Remains by Rene Karabas, translated by Izidora Angel
• The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
• Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać
• Horror and Huge Expenses by Robert Perišić, translated by Will Firth
• The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva, translated by Angela Rodel
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• James by Percivel Everett
• Stranger by C. J. Cherryh
• The works of Magda Szabo in general, of course
• The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
• Ice by Anna Kavan
• The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, translated by Daniel Levin Becker
• The works of C. S. Lewis
• The Witches by Roald Dahl

Buzz mentions writing an article for the Lit Hub that is partly about reading to his son; it's this: "The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings".

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My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.