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Writing Into The Dream: Nora Lange and Devyn Andrews – Free and Direct
After a bit of a summer break, we’re back to recording and releasing podcasts; and what a return it is. This episode features the super talented writer Nora Langejoining the show to discuss her new collection, Day Care, as well as her novel, Us Fools. We further welcome back to the show to formidable Devyn Andrews, who has been here before to talk about Anna Burns and David Foster Wallace, and who covered Day Care for the estimable West Trade Review; Devyn is also a past contributor for L’Esprit. All the ingredients for a raucous discussion.Which did not disappoint! We talked about Nora’s background and how she got into writing, and touched on Devyn’s review. We then went all over the place, and covered quite a bit of disparate conversational ground. At one point Nora got up to get more books to discuss. Devyn and I were super excited to talk with Nora, one of the true rising talents in the US literary scene. We hope you enjoy this conversation, and please do order yourself a copy of Nora’s books. Merci !
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