On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Tessa Mellas, Plus Todd Sentell writes about Huckleberry Finn, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and the Near Death of Literature. TEXTS DISCUSSED Lungs Full of Noise (Iowa Short Fiction Award)" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;" A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories" style="color: #2b6fb6; text-decoration: none;" NOTES The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is remarkable fucking reading. Orlando Shakespeare Theater presents Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, from October 9 - November 10, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js56KlfJoGY The Drunken Odyssey's review of this production will appear next week.

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