Episode 20: John Sayles

We’re excited to welcome filmmaker and author John Sayles to the show. John spoke with us about his most recent novel, Crucible, which focuses on the impact that an egocentric automobile magnate’s uninformed plans has on the economy and other populations. Sounds vaguely familiar. We also dove into John’s career, screenwriting vs. writing fiction, and what makes Pittsburgh so great.   Then, our intrepid hosts returned to a topic hinted at last time: how much overlap there is between the books the two of us have read? What a shocker: we both read Moby-Dick!   Crucible by John Sayles is out now   Works cited this episode:   A Moment in the Sun, John Sayles The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs White Teeth, Zadie Smith Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt, John Bellairs Want, Lynn Steger Strong Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel, Lisa Sunshine Don’t Skip Out on Me, Willy Vlautin The Killer is Dying, James Sallis Pulp Fiction, dir. Quentin Tarantino The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen