This is the tenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis.
This week's guest is Buzz Poole, cofounder of Sandorf Passage. Texts discussed include but are not limited to:
- Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis
- Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost by Donald Niedekker, translated by Jonathan Reeder
- Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišić, translated by Will Firth
- Cat at the End of the World by Robert Perišić, translated by Vesna Maric
- No Signal Area by Robert Perišić, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać
- She Who Remains by Rene Karabas, translated by Izidora Angel
- The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
- Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać
- Horror and Huge Expenses by Robert Perišić, translated by Will Firth
- The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva, translated by Angela Rodel
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
- James by Percivel Everett
- Stranger by C. J. Cherryh
- The works of Magda Szabo in general, of course
- The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
- Ice by Anna Kavan
- The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, translated by Daniel Levin Becker
- The works of C. S. Lewis
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
Buzz mentions writing an article for the Lit Hub that is partly about reading to his son; it's this: "The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings".
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My thanks to Tracy Rae Bowling for the very dignified theme song, and my friend Blorb for the art.
