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- Sep 29, 2026
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“the fact that I often forget about tardigrades, water bears, moss piglets, boarlets, the fact that tardigrades continue to exist though, even if I forget about them sometimes,” (opens the original)
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“the fact that I was like a baby kangaroo that’s grown too big for the pouch, but you keep clawing at it and trying to get back in but it’s no use,” (opens the original)
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“the fact that we were really having kind of fun, and then the mean lady has to butt in and wreck it all, snarling about Jake not having a shirt on,” (opens the original)
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One Novel, Five Books, Twenty Years of Work (opens the original)
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James Elkins returns to the show for his third visit to talk with Lori about Stories Like Illnesses, out October 6 from Unnamed Press. It is the first book or volume of his Five Strange Languages novel (though the third to be published), and Jim is careful to say these books are not a series, but rather a single novel, over twenty years in the making. Each of its five books (Weak in Comparison to Dreams, A Short Introduction to Anneliese</sp
“chickens as yet unborn will love melon rinds/some cats will eat melon too” (opens the original)
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