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by Michael Collins and Emily Gushue Whalen

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11 episodes
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Podcast Overview

Emily and Michael are two old friends who want to know: What have you read lately?

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Publishing Since

1/17/2019

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Recent Episodes

Episode thumbnail for 11. W, or The Memory of Childhood / Trust Exercise.

September 4, 2020

11. W, or The Memory of Childhood / Trust Exercise.

Michael struggles with an unconventional mashup of holocaust memoir and sports-based dystopia in Georges Perec’s W, or The Memory of Childhood, while Emily is captivated by the sexual politics of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, yet frustrated by its open-ended narrative.

Episode thumbnail for 10. The Innocents / French Exit.

November 28, 2019

10. The Innocents / French Exit.

Michael is captivated by the brutality and isolation of pre-modern Newfoundland in Michael Crummey's The Innocents, while Emily delights in the “tragedy of manners” and the woes of bored rich people fallen on hard times in Patrick deWitt’s French Exit.

Episode thumbnail for 9. My Sister, the Serial Killer / Middlemarch.

October 17, 2019

9. My Sister, the Serial Killer / Middlemarch.

Michael posits that George Eliot’s Middlemarch (“the most Victorian of Victorian novels”) is the anti-Atlas Shrugged, while Emily considers just how much thicker blood is than water with Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer.

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What is Dear Reader?

Emily and Michael are two old friends who want to know: What have you read lately?

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