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Building Communities, Finding Guardrails, & Reading the Comments Section w/ Jean Marc Ah-Sen

03 Nov 2025

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In this interview, we chat with Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, literary scenes, flipping the script on what a book can be, and so much more. Jean Marc Ah-Sen is the author of Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, and Kilworthy Tanner. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Comics Journal, Maclean's, The Walrus, and elsewhere. Books mentioned in this episode: The Fall – Albert Camus I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp – Richard Hell The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi Biography of X – Catherine Lacey Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle – Vladimir Nabokov  Anti-Woo: The Lifeman's Improved Primer for Non-Lovers; The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship: Or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating – Stephen Potter Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones – Dee Dee Ramone Endling – Maria Reva The Dying Animal – Philip Roth Striptease – Georges Simenon The Handyman Method – Andrew Sullivan Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Time Machine – H. G. Wells 

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