# Kevin Brockmeier

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THE THIRD TEMPLE by Yishai Sharid with Yardenne Greenspan

Yardenne Greenspan @yardennegreenspan Buy Yishai Sarid’s The Third Temple here https://restlessbooks.org/bookstore/the-third-temple Gateway books The Great Gatsby  A Few Seconds of Radiant Film Script - Kevin Brockmeier Second Person Singular - Sayed Kashua Current reads  The Panelist - …

Kevin Brockmeier

This week we visit with Kevin Brockmeier in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.  In addition to his latest book, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories, Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the story collecti…

Bonus: Kim Fu wants writers to get weird

This summer, the KUOW Book Club read Seattle author Kim Fu's surreal story collection, "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century." It was the winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Prize among many other accolades. In it, Fu takes average, even mundane human experiences and makes them utterly …

Accidental Revelations

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories in which characters are faced with unexpected revelations that alter their lives. In “A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets,” by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Geoffrey Arend, a thrift purchase comes with unusual fringe benefits.  In “Lad…

[From the Vault] Carmen Maria Machado & Passing Literary Kidney Stones

It’s all about memory this week.   Remember that time literary superstar Carmen Maria Machado came on the show? No? Well here’s your chance to catch up on what you missed.   Carmen spoke to me about Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House – the former a collection of folktale and fa…

"A Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier -- Veto #3

Send us Fan Mail Back in January, the random number generator gave us #1, 167. This number corresponded to a Cuban novel by Guillermo Cabrera Infante entitled Three Trapped Tigers. None of the cast had heard of it. Research ensued, and the following information was discovered: A paperback in Engli…

The Pursuit of Happiness with Death, Sex and Money

In the second of two programs created with the podcast Death, Sex, and Money and our live event host Anna Sale, we explore issues of happiness.  Host Meg Wolitzer introduces a satirical romance by Oscar Wilde (did he write any other kind?).  “The Model Millionaire” is read by Peter Francis James.  …

131: What's a Book Really Worth? – A Conversation with Kevin Brockmeier

In this episode, we speak with author Kevin Brockmeier about his contributions to speculative fiction, his distinctive approach to narrative as thought experiment, whether the production of a book can ever justify suffering, and whether pain can make us beautiful to God. Kevin is the author of thre…