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This week we visit with Elizabeth Zaleski in Northeast Ohio. 

Elizabeth Zaleski is the author of The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure, now available from Belt Publishing. Elizabeth grew up in rural northeast Ohio, in Amish country. After living and traveling all over the US, she now lives in slightly less rural northeast Ohio, outside Akron. She works as an editor and is the curator of Great Farts of Literature. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Hippocampus, The Normal School, and The Missouri Review.

For more on Elizabeth and her book: elizabethzaleski.com

Elizabeth's Books on the Bed:

Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

(Interlude) The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Language Myths (edited by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill)

We Learn Nothing: Essays by Tim Kreider

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

Matt's Gifts for Elizabeth:

Nola Face by Brooke Champagne

American Bulk: Essays on Excess by Emily Mester 

Nebraska by Monica Datta