The multi-talented writer, comedian, and professor joins Joshua to talk about how authors like Joan Didion and Lorrie Moore helped open her eyes to the life experiences she could one day write about as a renowned short story author herself and soon to be published novelist. Books talked about include but are not limited to \"Birds of America\" by Lorrie Moore, \"Play It As It Lays\" by Joan Didion, \"Sing To It\" by Amy Hempel, \"Why Did I Ever?\" by Mary Robison \"Willful Creatures\" by Aimee Bender and \"A Swim in a Pond in the Rain\" and \"CivilWarLand in Bad Decline\" by George Saunders because Turek Books will begin and won't ever stop with Saunders.
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