Joumana Khatib
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1,079 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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Hi Gilbert.
For once, I don't disagree with anything you just said.
For
Oh yeah.
I mean, one of my fondest beach days was spent reading a book coming out in November that I will tell you about towards the end of this podcast.
Okay, I have uh a weird, slim, totally worthwhile book.
Oh this is called The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar.
If you're a reader, you probably know him for Homeland Elegies, which is one of the book review's 10 best books of the year in 2020.
He's also a really decorated playwright.
He's a Pulitzer Prize winner.
His work deals a lot with American ideas.
identity, draws on his background, um, his experience growing up with Muslim heritage.
And he's just one of the most it's like cerebral, but like with force behind his writing.
Like he is a brain, but there's real action there.
This is a weird book.
Um, I love it.
It's okay, so it's it's it's auto fictional.
Stay with me here.
It follows a character.
Who is a writer named Ayad Oktar, who moves from New York City to the Hudson Valley during the pandemic.
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