Chris Holmes, chair of the English Department at Ithaca College, was stuck at home like so many other people in the early days of the pandemic, so he decided to start a podcast featuring chats with authors. It’s called Burned By Books (I’m trying to think of a witty comment channeling Heinrich Heine, but can’t come up with anything. “In the end, we’ll get burned by people?” Nah.) He’s up to seventeen episodes now, and it’s a pretty wonderful collection of intelligent conversations with thoughtful writers. I tried to be thoughtful, too, when he talked with me last week. I hope Chris continues for years and becomes an East coast version of Michael Silverblatt. That would be one partial solution to the world’s problems: more Michael Silverblatts!
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