The Importance of a Microphone

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Egan's novel is written in almost like an instruction manual or a series of like little snippets of advice. The language kind of has a shift, sometimes it sounds like instructions that she is remembering from something that she was briefed on. Sometimes it sounds like their instruction she's giving herself. And then sometimes they are telling the instructions to someone else who's like reading it later. Egan: "It's just really interesting to watch her work and really interesting to meet the characters"

It only took 500-or-so episodes to revisit the world of Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. We did, of course, have to wait for Egan to write her sequel (sort of) novel. This follow-up to a post-postmodern classic is focused on memories (digital and otherwise) and relationships (virtual and otherwise). It's got "what if the Meta but for everyone's memories" okay??

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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