How We Read Now (featuring MJ Franklin and Joumana Khatib of The New York Times)

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Get ready for another great year of reading! MJ Franklin and Joumana Khatib of The New York Times join us to talk about dissecting the literary canon, keeping books weird, language, dialogue, world building, rereading, blurbs and more with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                    New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger Moderation by Elaine Castillo Eligible by Curtis Sittinfeld The Complete Novels: Jane Austen by Jane Austen The Bee Sting by Paul Murray Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë James by Percival Everett Middlemarch by George Eliot The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky East of Eden by John Steinbeck Dracula by Bram Stoker The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones The Odyssey: Translated by Emily Wilson Trip by Amie Barrodale Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Angel Down by Daniel Kraus Audition by Katie Kitamura The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys My Broken Language by Quiara Allegria Hudes The White Hot by Quiara Allegria Hudes The Hours by Michael Cunningham Terry Dactyl by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore North Woods by Daniel Mason The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Animal Farm by George Orwell The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai The Most by Jessica Anthony Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Playworld by Adam Ross Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

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