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Episode 258 — Willy Vlautin
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Length:
88 minutes
Released:
Mar 9, 2014
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Podcast episode
Description
Willy Vlautin is the guest. His new novel The Free is now available from Harper Perennial. It is the official March selection of The TNB Book Club.
Cheryl Strayed says
“Willy Vlautin writes novels about people all alone in the wind. His prose is direct and complex in its simplicity, and his stories are sturdy and bighearted and full of lives so shattered they shimmer.”
And George Pelecanos says
“The Free is another outstanding book from one of America’s most underappreciated artists.”
Monologue topics: Richmond Fontaine, singing, mail, friendship, new lows for the program, the AWP episode.
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Cheryl Strayed says
“Willy Vlautin writes novels about people all alone in the wind. His prose is direct and complex in its simplicity, and his stories are sturdy and bighearted and full of lives so shattered they shimmer.”
And George Pelecanos says
“The Free is another outstanding book from one of America’s most underappreciated artists.”
Monologue topics: Richmond Fontaine, singing, mail, friendship, new lows for the program, the AWP episode.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Mar 9, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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