Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.

Today Jonathan spends a bit more than ten minutes talking to literary agent and editor DongWon Song of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency -- whose newsletter Publishing is Hard is essential reading -- about publishing during the pandemic, coping with being an involuntary voluntary shut-in, what he's reading and working on, and much more.

Books mentioned include:

The Sin in the Steel by Ryan Van Loan
Savage Legion by Matt Wallace
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

Episode 444: Ten Minutes with DongWon Song