On this week’s show, I present my interview with the memoirist Melanie Neale, plus Andrew Simpson Guthrie shares his memoir essay-in-verse, "The Weighty Page." TEXTS DISCUSSED Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love, & Fiberglass" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"Boat Kid: How I Survived Swimming with Sharks, Being Homeschooled, and Growing Up on a Sailboat" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" Last Exit to Brooklyn" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" NOTES Check out the Transit Interpretation Project here, or read Ryan Rivas's essay, "Rider's Block," here. Amiri Baraka, author of Dutchman, dies at 79. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6XmBX9-po http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvhWdJUBxU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-aNmrJcI7Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE3aXAAAdvs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n319tlJdKe8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlxH6o-a_GU Read Kip Robisch's "Fun Dads, Loss, and 'Saving Mr. Banks.'" The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant (my co-host of the mailbag episodes), is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this stellar story collection.

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