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Podcast: The Reader and the Writer
Episode: Lincoln in the Bardo Part 1
Description: This week Rhea and Shari begin their deep read of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. It’s a weird one! But so worth the effort, as Rhea and Shari discuss in this first episode. They talk about Saunders’s unorthodox way of telling this story, how the novel reads almost like a play—but then again, doesn’t. They talk about the opportunities and limitations of this odd story-telling style, new ways they are discovering—or may yet discover—on how to participate with the story that other, more traditional narrating styles don’t offer, ghost personalities, and where they...