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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author, Ayad Akhtar joins us to talk about craft, the campus novel, autofiction, and his latest book, The Radiance, with host Miwa Messer.

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

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Featured Books:

The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar

American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar

Junk by Ayad Akhtar

McNeal by Ayad Akhtar

The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar

Poor Folk and Other Early Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

Ravelstein by Saul Bellow

The Republic of Plato translated by Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

Antiquities and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick

Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hawthorne's Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

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