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Get ready for another great year of reading! MJ Franklin and Joumana Khatib of The New York Times join us to talk about dissecting the literary canon, keeping books weird, language, dialogue, world building, rereading, blurbs and more with host Miwa Messer.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                    

New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.

Featured Books (Episode):
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Moderation by Elaine Castillo
Eligible by Curtis Sittinfeld
The Complete Novels: Jane Austen by Jane Austen
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
James by Percival Everett
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
The Odyssey: Translated by Emily Wilson
Trip by Amie Barrodale
Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys
My Broken Language by Quiara Allegria Hudes
The White Hot by Quiara Allegria Hudes
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Terry Dactyl by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
The Most by Jessica Anthony
Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu
Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Playworld by Adam Ross
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante