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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: And Soon: Lydia Millet and Emily Hyde
Description: During a desert thunderstorm outside Tucson, Lydia Millet joined the Novel Dialogue conversation with hosts John Plotz and Emily Hyde, with Emily playing the role of critic. Lydiaâauthor more than a dozen novels and story collections and recently the nonfictional We Loved it All (Norton, 2024)âalso works at the Center for Biological Diversity. Wild creatures gambol, flap, swim, and crawl their way through her writing and her conversation: we begin in the Garden of Eden but quickly learn that for Lydia human exceptionalism is the original sin, one that continues to bedevil us in âthe nuclear eraâ (or did she say ...