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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The latest episode of my podcast is part 18 of my reading of my 2006 novel "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," a book that Gene Wolfe called "a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read."

craphound.com/podcast/2020/1…

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This week's episode comes with content warnings for spousal abuse, sexual violence and self-harm - and it also came with a kind of shock for me about how much my attitudes to how this kind of material should be presented in art have changed over the past ~15 years.

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Here's how to catch up on previous installments:

craphound.com/podcast/?s=%22…

And here's my podcast feed:

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podca…

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And here's a direct MP3 link (hosting courtesy of the @internetarchive: they'll host your stuff for free, forever):

archive.org/download/Cory_…

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