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Podcast: What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books
Episode: Anne Fleming
Description: My guest on this episode is Anne Fleming. Anne is the author of the story collections Pool-Hopping and Gay Dwarves of America, the novel Anomaly, as well as the middle-grade novel The Goat and a poetry collection, poemw. Her most recent book is the novel Curiosities, published in 2024 by Knopf Canada. That novel was longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award For LGBTQ Fiction. It was also a finalist for the 2024 Giller Prize. The Toronto Star said that Curiosities “grips with fervent tales of affection, love, and duty as it conjures a pan...