Reading Glasses - Fan Group discussion

Ep 104 - Empty Planets, Trains and Swamps and Deb Spera!

Guests: Deb Spera

Brea and Mallory talk about a book’s sense of place and interview author Deb Spera! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

Books Mentioned -

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

The Book of Flying by Keith Miller

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Bloodchild by Octavia Butler

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley

The Gloaming by Melanie Finn

Melmoth by Sarah Perry

Infomocracy by Malka Older

Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed

Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender

Amatka (Paperback) By Karin Tidbeck

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

There There by Tommy Orange

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Country Dark by Chris Offutt

Southernmost by Silas House

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein

The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

So what are some of your favorite settings?

I love dystopian/post-apocalyptic worlds where there are artifacts from ancient civilizations but no one understands them (The Fifth Season, A Canticle for Leibowitz), alternate universe versions of New York or London, and anything set within the comic book industry (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Cover, Vol. 1).