Ben and Matthew select 10 characters from stories covered on the podcast, then take turns picking them in a character draft. Whose team has more literary clout? Which one would win on a basketball court? Below are the characters, although not in the order they were drafted.
- Enid from Alice Munro’s “Love of a Good Woman”
- Billie in Dantiel Moniz’s “Necessary Bodies”
- Narrator in Roberto Bolano’s “Sensini”
- Eric from Jamel Brinkley’s “Everything the Mouth Eats”
- Narrator in Thom Jones’s “The Pugilist at Rest”
- Tar Cutler in Chris Offutt’s “Old of the Moon”
- Woodrow L. Cunningham in Edward P. Jones’s “A New Man”
- Spurgeon from ZZ Packer’s “The Ant of the Self”
- Yunior in Junot Diaz’s “Ysrael”
- Kamara from Chimamanda Adichie's "On Monday of Last Week"
