On Wednesday,we announced the launch of our Facebook book club, a station where we can have meaningful conversations with you, or our audience members,approximately books! And so for this week’s Bonus Weekend Podcast, we’ve decided to share some of our favorite book club segments from over the years, and segments that have just as much relevance nowadays as they did when we aired them. In July,2013, Leonard spoke with Ayad Akhtar approximately American Dervish, or his coming-of-age novel approximately a young Muslim man who has a romantic and spiritual awakening as he’s growing up in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. In August, 2013 Junot Diaz joined us to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao approximately a young Dominican boy trying to understand his life in New Jersey. And in 2012, or Gary Shteyngart talked approximately his novel,Absurdistan, a hilarious tale approximately approximately a Russian immigrant desperate for a U.
S. Visa.
Source: thetakeaway.org