Author Sigrid Nunez, who won the National Book Award for 2018's The Friend, joins Kat and Eric to talk about her new novel, What Are You Going Through - which seems a perfect tale for our times as it focuses on a narrator with a close friend with a terminal illness. The work revolves around witnessing the lives and needs of others; intertwines with themes of friendship and mortality; bravery, even transcendence, amidst the commonplace. The flowing conversation touches on how we contend with death in our society, in relation to the pandemic, and Sigrid talks about contemporaries who have inspired her as they faced their mortality.
Also, Joni Murphy author of Talking Animals, returns to recommend Matthew Goulish's 39 Microlectures in Proximity of Performance.
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