M.J. Franklin
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3,273 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3d ago
M.J. Franklin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How about you, MJ?
What do you recommend?
My first one is a book that came out last year, Universality by Natasha Browne.
which I'm recommending because it has that subsequent section undercuts what you thought came before.
It opens with this account of a guy who is bludgeoned with a gold bar.
And talk about symbolism, about how capitalism is getting you down.
He's bludgeoned by a gold bar.
And you get this account, and then the second section is the story of the journalist who wrote the first section.
You find out that the first section is actually a long magazine story, and then you find out about the journalist.
And when you're reading the first section, you're like, something about this telling feels weird.
And you almost judge...
Natasha Brown a little bit, because you're like, why isn't this writing sharper?
And then you realize, oh, wait, this is a trick.
This is from this kind of struggling, over-her-head journalist.
And then this third section is the story of one of this conservative thinker who's on her way to a literary festival, and she has a connection to the crime.
And then the fourth section is the panel conversation
Wow.
It's really good.
And I think it was long listed for the Booker Prize last year.
But if you liked the structure of transcription, I think pick up universality.
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